Back when the Tesla S came out, there were rumors flying all over the place about a $30k variant coming along at some point. By some point, it seems the passage of several years was implied. On Wednesday Tesla opened up on Twitter about the new $35k Model 3, and set a date for when Tesla fans would be able to drive home their $132k Model X.
TESLA MODEL X
Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised a September delivery date for the Model X and that’s exactly what fans are getting. Musk said that customers would deliver their new cars by the end of September.
“First production cars will be handed over on Sept 29 at our Fremont Factory,” wrote Musk in a tweet.
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The Model X is a high-end crossover utility vehicle that kicks things off at $132,000. Musk said that the X is a little pricier than the S, but because of its size, it will come with the same options. If you weren’t one of the first 23,000 people to pre-order an X then you will wait beyond September to get inside one, since they’ve been sold out for a while.
TESLA MODEL 3
Unfortunately, we won’t see the Model 3 for some time now. Musk has said that the mid-ranged car is set to debut in March 2016. On Wednesday Musk tweeted that production for the Tesla Model 3 car won’t begin for another two years, which means we likely won’t be seeing the car until around the fourth quarter of 2017 or possibly early 2018–no official word on a firm date, of course.
The Model 3 is rumored to get between 200 to 250 miles of EV range, which is a bit less than the Nissan Leaf’s reported 330 miles. Pre-orders for the Model 3 will begin in March, at the car’s unveiling and will start off around $35,000.
“The model 3 will be way different from any other car on the road. But, in a way that’s really useful and just doesn’t feel like a weird-mobile.”
As ambiguous as this statement seems, this writer believes it best for the reader to decipher it in context to Tesla’s CEO’s socio-economic context for him or herself.
