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Tesla Model 2 will arrive in 2025

During the company’s financial report, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the arrival of a new electric car, the Tesla Model 2. It is an affordable car that will cost less than the Model 3, and which should arrive on the market in the first half of next year.

Last year, a teaser was released showing a car with a curved roofline and similar design to the Model Y SUV and Model 3. The Model 2 is also expected to look a bit like the facelifted Model 3 with slimmer headlights compared to Tesla’s older models. It should be positioned as a rival to conventional family hatchback models with a size of around 4.4 meters, and this could be achieved with a more aggressive rear roofline.

The car will be produced on the same production lines as the current models. This will not achieve the projected savings, but it will provide an opportunity for the company to increase the volume of vehicles in a more efficient way during uncertain times. “This should help us use the maximum capacity, which is close to three million vehicles, and enable a growth of more than 50 percent compared to production in 2023 before investing in new production lines,” the company said.

The Tesla CEO also said that this car will use everything the company learned during the development of the Model S, X, 3 and Y, as well as the Cybertruck and the Semi truck.

Source: Tesla

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Tesla will reveal the Cybercab on October 10

At the beginning of July, it was announced that Tesla would not meet the deadline for the presentation of its Robotaxi, which was supposed to happen on August 8, and now we have a new date. The Tesla Cybercab is coming on October 10, 2024.

According to Elon Musk’s statement, Tesla changed the date of presentation of self-driving taxis because the company wanted to improve the vehicle with some new technological solutions. What exactly it is about has not been announced.

Musk also said that self-driving cars, including taxis, are key to Tesla’s future as an extremely valuable AI company. However, it is still unclear whether Tesla can actually perfect the technology for autonomous driving. The company already has a Full Self-Driving function, which still requires human supervision and often makes mistakes.

The CEO of Tesla Motors believes that the company cannot offer rides to customers until the Full Self-Driving technology can be used without supervision. The arrival time of the robotaxi on the market depends on technological progress and approvals.

Recently, we could see the unsuccessful presentation of the Robotaxi Verne, by Rimac Automobili. After several attempts to call a vehicle via the app, Verne did not come on stage. “Today we presented Verne, the car, the infrastructure. The car is one of the elements of the ecosystem. We make the car ourselves and are building a factory near the campus. We will produce cars for the whole world. We are now two years away from the next phase, when driving around Zagreb. We had a problem with the brake, the car wouldn’t start. It’s a completely different car, the dimensions are like a Golf, but the interior is made to be more comfortable and spacious,” said Rimac. Although the company claimed that the car was supposed to go on stage by itself, leaked information says that the car was supposed to be driven by a person with a joystick.

We should not forget that these companies take large amounts of money (hundreds of millions) from investors and even taxpayers, in order to make a show, set a new date and take more money. Are they so skilled at deception, or are we so stupid that we believe everything they say?!

Source: Bloomberg

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Tesla has given up on the goal of 20 million vehicles by 2030

American vehicle manufacturer Tesla always has high expectations when it comes to sales, but the reality is different. One of the world’s largest manufacturers of electric cars set a goal of selling 20 million vehicles by the end of the decade, but according to last year’s results, that number is far from realistic. In 2023, Tesla sold less than 2 million vehicles (+38%), which is far from the expected growth of 50 percent per year.

Since the beginning of 2024, Tesla has not recorded the expected sales, so the company decided to look for a solution in more affordable models with a price of $25,000. Their best-selling model in Europe is the Tesla Model Y, which has not been doing well lately, because recently it was not even in the top 20 best-selling cars on the old continent.

The company’s goal is primarily to reduce production costs, so the existing production lines will be used for future cheaper models. The first such model should arrive by the end of the year after Tesla presents its first electric Robotaxi. There are no technical details about the new model for now.

A few days ago, Tesla recalled over 120,000 cars due to problems with the seat belt warning system. The system is supposed to send visual and audible warnings to drivers when they are not buckled in, but NHTSA has determined that it may not work as intended in some vehicles. The problem was noticed in the models Model S (2012 to 2024), Model X (2015 to 2024), Model 3 (2017 to 2023), and Model Y (2020 to 2023), and the company said that the software will be updated in all vehicles by the end of June this year.

Source: Reuters