the stated plan is sell the larger margin car to cover initial model startup costs.
Musk tweet explaining:
With production, 1st you need achieve target rate & then smooth out flow to achieve target cost. Shipping min cost Model 3 right away wd cause Tesla to lose money & die. Need 3 to 6 months after 5k/wk to ship $35k Tesla & live.
This becomes really hilarious:
- they sell 500K cheap Model 3 cars with already huge delays in deliveries.
- the Model 3 now seems to have again problems (brakes).
- they first haved to sell now 6 months production of the 78k Model 3 cars to have enough money to survive.
- so they first should find now 130,000 new victims ( 6 months at 5,000 cars a week) for the expensive model 3 version.
- will they stop the production of the cheap Model 3 again 6 months? Or till the 130K expensive ones are sold?
- what will be next and how long can they still fool people (probably depends of the level of intelligence of these people).
Beating anything in his class on the track??? ROFLMAO.
For as far as I know the max speed in the US is 85Mph and only on (some) highways. So why should this car be fast on a track? The only thing you can do is accelerate like an idiot to beat other cars 1-2 seconds. At least as long as the battery lasts, because after a number of these accelerations your battery is empty. You will never reach even 150 miles if you accelerate all the time in insane mode.
Mercedes should start deliveries 1 of february 2019. They probably can deliver cars before the people who ordered 1-2 years ago a Model 3 will get their car.
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