A Look At Tesla's Cheapest Car, The Model 3 - ion battery
Tesla's much-
Some affordable electric vehicles are expected to be called Model 3.
Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car maker, said in an interview with the British car magazine Auto Express on Tuesday night that the company hopes to be in early 2017.
The car costs about $35,000, about half of its top models.
Rated S, so that the price of the car is as low
Mid-range Lexus sedan
Honda and Chevrolet Volt series.
"I can confirm that after Model X, the next car Tesla will produce will be a Volkswagen car --
Market electric vehicles called Model 3
Tesla spokesman Shean told the Huffington Post on Wednesday.
"We don't have any more details to share at this point.
"Car Express provides a simulation for Huffington Post
Musk said that the car will be unveiled on 2016: it has been called the E-car for several months, and it has become a material for pornographic headlines, because the car will finish a porn initials acronym next to the S and X models.
Ford sued Tesla in June to prevent it from using the name.
"I think it's crazy, Ford is trying to kill sex," Musk said . ".
"So we have to come up with another name.
But the company shakes "sex" back into the picture.
He added: "The new model will be called Model 3 and we will have three subsections to represent it and it will be s iii x!
The Model 3 will be Tesla's third generation battery.
Electric cars.
At a meeting with the California Public Utilities Commission on last March, Musk revealed that cars and their batteries will be 20% smaller and can travel 200 miles at a single charge.
He said the price of the car would be half the price of $71,000.
"To do this, you 'd better reduce the cost of the battery," Musk said in a video posted on YouTube.
"Since the car is 20% smaller, you have to cut the price by 50%.
Tesla's "Gigabit factory" should help reduce costs.
By 2020, the company expects the battery assembly plant to produce more lithium-
It's one year more than the ion packs made in the whole world last year.
But the car could still get stuck in a Silicon Valley company's pipeline traffic jam.
It's already behind.
Delayed Model X for an SUV
A Tesla executive told Huffington Post last month that cross-border cars will be put into production next year.
Buyers have paid up to $5,000 for car booking.
"We don't like carrying inventory," Tesla's vice president of business development, diamud O'Connell, told Huffington Post at the time . ".
"We will ship as soon as we produce it.
Before that, Model 3--
It was supposed to debut in 2015. -is a back-Burner priority.
Jarvis-"Our focus is still on Model S and preparing for the introduction of Model XShean said.