- The lack of panoramic glass roof and rear help to reduce costs
- The Chinese automotive blogger broke the disguised vehicles
- The cheaper model is expected to go on sale in China at the end of this year
Elon Musk let the cat come out of the stock market when he revealed that the company was preparing a cheaper alternative to the model and during the quarterly gain gains of Tesla, ending rumors that the company was working on an independent ‘affordable’ tesla.
Instead, the next simplified S model was promoted to contain some of the additional subtleties in search of a cheaper sticker price.
It seems that a popular Chinese blogger, called Garage 42, has photographed some of the first budget models, with images and videos that arise at the Chinese Weibo social media site.
Although very disguised as black fabric, the images show that these cars lack the large panoramic solar roof that makes the current generation of the model and feel so bright and aerated. There is also a lack of information and entertainment screen for rear passengers and the Gigantic Width Led Led bar has been withdrawn from the front and rear.
Currently, the cheapest model in China begins in 250,000 yuan (around $ 34,750), but faces an increasingly hard competition of local talent, with the Xiaomi Su7 and the YU7 that demonstrates fugitive sales successes.
Car News China also points out that Xpeng, Li Auto y Nio are preparing rivals of the model and acute prices in China for the second half of this year, which will continue eating possible sales of Tesla.
It is not known if this model and trimmed will be sold in other markets in this way, but Tesla’s sales are suffering at a global scale, so we hope to see a slot of the model and somewhere between the model and cheaper and the most expensive model 3.
Tesla doubles in autonomous driving
Despite withdrawing the model and in an attempt to increase sales, Elon Musk announced that Tesla recently signed an agreement of $ 16.5 billion with Samsung, which will make the Korean technological giant provide chip technology for the next generations of the Tesla hardware matrix.
With the last cars that execute Hardware 4 of Tesla (or HW4, for abbreviation), this agreement will ensure that the company has the last and fastest chipset when its vehicles move to HW6, since HW5 is already contractually covered by the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company (TSMC).
With each new generation of semiconductors, defined software vehicles (SDV) become smarter and more capable, with the type of processing power required for advanced autonomous driving levels.
However, the news has bothered many long -standing Tesla owners, such as Elon Musk promised in 2016 that even in version 2 of his hardware, all vehicles would be able to drive autonomous without supervision, something that the brand still does not have to break.
The owners have been multiple attempts to demand reimbursements for the complete self -control systems (FSD) of Tesla on false advertising claims, which cost up to $ 15,000 in addition to the list price of a car at the points.
Tesla continues to promise more of its FSD systems, recently stating that the “non -supervised” versions will arrive later this year. But with the company still investing so strongly in the next generation of computing, it has a series of skeptical critics about the true capabilities of Tesla technology.
