Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022

Re:Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022 by prepend on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:03PM (#25707092)

They don’t sell the absolute cheapest, but they sell a lot of low cost cars. They don’t avoid the low cost segment. $20k is low cost these days, even though the absolute cheapest US car is $14k.

Toyota just discontinued its Yaris that was $17k and Honda still sells its Fit for $16k.

There’s a ton of cars to be sold at the $25k level, profitably. The upsell of new versions down the road is just gravy.

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Re:Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022 by Retric on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:20PM (#25708049)

I agree IC cars can be sold for 20k profitably especially when people add options. But that’s starting at a 43% price jump from the ultra low end. However, with current battery prices a 25k EV with decent range is going to need to be cut down with near Mirage levels of options, or be closer to 30k than 25k for Tesla to profitably sell them.

Granted, Tesla could put a 150 mile battery in it but that’s also a major compromise.

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