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The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

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152 points voisin | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 23:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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worik ◴[18 Nov 24 00:36 UTC] No.42168640[source]▶
> “I think having a regular $25,000 model is pointless,” Musk said a few weeks ago. “It would be silly.”

ROTFLMAO!

Says the richest person in existence. What an entitled nasty person.

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015a ◴[18 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42168718[source]▶
While he did say that, its worth pointing out that Tesla also said that more affordable options will be available in 2025H1 [1]. Given Musk's statement, what I think Tesla means by this is more affordable trims of existing models.

I don't think its reasonable to read Musk's statement as "the Model 2 isn't happening". Its more accurate to read it as "it might cost more than $25,000".

[1] https://fortune.com/2024/10/24/tesla-model-2-affordable-car-...

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ceejayoz ◴[18 Nov 24 14:55 UTC] No.42172838[source]▶
> its worth pointing out that Tesla also said that more affordable options will be available in 2025H1

Sure, but they've been saying full self driving is "next year" for a decade in a row. I take that with a large grain of salt. https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

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015a ◴[18 Nov 24 15:28 UTC] No.42173232[source]▶
Absolutely; but it is at least indicative of the direction Tesla is taking. It might be the end of 2025, 2026, whenever; but they've said they're working on lower cost models. That's all I'm asserting.
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1. ceejayoz ◴[18 Nov 24 15:57 UTC] No.42173590[source]▶
It's still the company that trots out humans in spandex to simulate robots and a self-driving taxi that was actually remotely operated by a guy on his phone.

I'll believe in the cheap Tesla when it arrives.