- A lack of panoramic glass and rear screen roof helps reduce costs
- The Chinese automotive blogger broke disguise vehicles
- The cheaper model should be sold in China later this year
Elon Musk let the cat come out of the bag when he revealed that the company was preparing a cheaper alternative to the Y model during the Tesla quarterly results, putting an end to rumors that the company worked on an affordable ” autonomic tesla.
Instead, the next simplified model has been presented to retain some of the additional subtleties looking for a cheaper sticker price.
It seems that a popular Chinese blogger, nicknamed Garage 42, has photographed some of the first YS budgetary models, with images and surface videos on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
Although strongly disguised under a black fabric, the images show that these cars do not have the large panoramic sunroof which makes the current generation model Y so shiny and airy. There is also a lack of infotainment of infotainment for rear passengers and the LED mammoth and full width light bar has been removed from the front and rear.
Currently, the cheapest Y model in China starts at 250,000 yuan (around $ 34,750), but it is faced with increasingly rigid competition from local talents, with the successes of the flight of Xiaomi and Yu7 proving.
Because News China also underlines that Xpeng, Li Auto and Nio all prepare rivals of the Y model at high prices in China for the second half of this year, which will continue to eat in the potential sales of Tesla.
We do not know if this model reduces it will be sold on other markets of this form, but Tesla sales suffer on a global scale, so we expect to see a model location y in a place between the cheapest model and the most expensive model 3.
Tesla Double-Down on Autonomous Driving
Despite the deactivation of the Y model in order to stimulate sales, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had recently signed an agreement of $ 16.5 billion with Samsung, who will see the giant of Korean technology providing chip technology for future generations of Tesla’s material table.
With the latest cars performing Tesla equipment 4 (or HW4, in short), this agreement will guarantee that the company has the most last and fastest chipset when its vehicles move to HW6 – Car HW5 is already contractually covered by the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company (TSMC).
With each new generation of semiconductors, vehicles defined by software (SDV) become smarter and more capable, with the type of processing power required for advanced autonomous driving levels.
However, the news has annoyed many Tesla owners for a long time, as Elon Musk promised in 2016 that even on version 2 of its equipment, all vehicles would be able to be supervised – something that the brand has not yet cracked.
There have been several attempts by the owners to demand reimbursements for the complete Tesla (FSD) systems on the false advertising complaints, which cost up to $ 15,000 in addition to the price of the list of a car at points.
Tesla continues to promise her FSD systems more, recently declaring that “unopensed” versions will come later this year. But with the company that still invests so strongly in the next generation of computer science, it has a certain number of skeptical criticisms of the real capacities of Tesla technology.
