The Tesla of €30.000 must be going to cost you

Posted on 11-05-2015 at 22:07 by ricardo – 65 Comments”

Electric drive ontsaaien, that is Tesla has been successful. Now have a model where you no 100,000 euros do piece store.

That Tesla is the key figure in the triptych of Elon Musk. His philosophy has always been to have an expensive sports car for the rich to make (Roadster), followed by a sedan in the premium segment (Model S), then the electric car for the masses must follow. With a price tag of about $35.000/€30.000. The ‘people’s EV that Tesla can make or break. And where they there on an annual basis 500,000 from wanting to go.

We already know for some time that this model the name Model III. (The plan was to have him Model E to call it, but that was thwarted by Ford.) Now we also know when we see him: march 2016. And that promise was done by Elon Musk himself, so keep in mind that this date is still several times postponed. As with the Model X, which is initially in 2013, the band would roll, but still no production date is known.

In the meantime we know about the design of the Model III, but only a few. There is once called ‘ie 20 percent smaller than the Model S, and the chassis steel is built to save costs. Theophilus Chin has himself meanwhile the freedom provided to a first design. A design that is heavily reliant on the by Franz von Holzhausen signed Model S. We hope the Model III is slightly more exciting, but if it’s in the vicinity of this I-is-nobody-in-the-way-design is not a disaster. Not for an EV that Jan Modal will have to convince to electric driving.