These cars exist purely to be a rung in the price ladder to get you to spend $5,000 more on a car with actual features. They did the same thing with the RWD Cybertruck and I don't actually believe they ever shipped any before cancelling it.
If people do end up buying these I really hope they know what they are giving up. Something as simple as "seat controls" were deemed too costly and are now driven by software on the touch screen. I used to give the "software defined car" a bit of leeway on some of the omissions / transition to screen, but these cars are the extreme and I wonder if legislators are going to allow this. For example, I checked on the Tesla Japan and Tesla Europe websites and it doesn't look like these are for sale.
What are you talking about, making a car slightly cheaper by removing features isn't innovation. Tesla might still innovate, but this clearly isn't an example.
On the Y they just covered the interior of the glass roof? I mean, I see glass on the outside, but the interior looks like a standard headliner. The comparison sheet confirms no glass roof for the Y Standard.
Given there’s tons of aftermarket headliners this is not exactly crazy if you live somewhere with lots of sun. Reminds me put mine back and it’s barely spring here.
Once Tesla went away from designing a new cheaper platform in order to go all in on AI (this was reported, everybody was against Musk on this), I lost complete confidence and sold all my stock. My investment concept was never build on AI, but advanced technology (AI driving assists is useful value add, but not a silver bullet), vertical integration and mass manufacture. Once Musk started making the argument that Self Driving was going to reduce amount of cars sold by 80% I realize that he has completely lost touch with reality. His believe in AI despite tons of evidence is his biggest weakness.
Stripping a Model Y isn't a long term plan. Its just a short term slight increase of car sales at best.
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If people do end up buying these I really hope they know what they are giving up. Something as simple as "seat controls" were deemed too costly and are now driven by software on the touch screen. I used to give the "software defined car" a bit of leeway on some of the omissions / transition to screen, but these cars are the extreme and I wonder if legislators are going to allow this. For example, I checked on the Tesla Japan and Tesla Europe websites and it doesn't look like these are for sale.
Finally that stock price will make sense.
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Stripping a Model Y isn't a long term plan. Its just a short term slight increase of car sales at best.