- Lack of Panorama Glass Tag and rear screen helps reduce costs
- Chinese car blogger cracked the disguised vehicles
- Cheaper Model Y is expected to be sold in China later in the year
Elon Musk let the cat out of the bag when he revealed that the company managed a cheaper alternative to model Y under Tesla’s quarterly earnings call, which ended the rumors that the company was working on an independent ‘affordable’ Tesla.
Instead, the upcoming, Simplified Model Y was proclaimed to hold back on some of the extra Niceties in the pursuit of a cheaper sticker price.
It seems that a popular Chinese blogger, called Garage 42, has photographed some of the first budget model YS, with photos and videos that surfaces on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
Although the images are heavily disguised under black cloth, the images show that these cars lack the large panoramic sunroof that makes the current generation model y feel so bright and airy. There is also a lack of infotainment display to rear passengers and the mammoth, the LED light beam in full width has been removed from the front and rear.
Currently, the cheapest model Y in China starts at 250,000 yuan (about $ 34,750), but it faces an ever -harder competition from home -grown talent, with Xiaomi SU7 and YU7, proving continuous sales success.
Car news China also points out that Xpeng, Li Auto and Nio all perform very priced model Y-Rivals in China for the second half of this year, which will continue to eat for potential Tesla sales.
It is not known if this trimmed model Y will be sold in other markets in this form, but Tesla’s sales are suffering worldwide, so we would expect to see a model Y-Slot somewhere between the current cheapest model Y and the most expensive model 3.
Tesla doubles on autonomous driving
Despite having removed model Y in an attempt to increase sales, Elon Musk announced that Tesla recently signed a $ 16.5 billion deal with Samsung, which will see the Korean Tech Giant Give Chip Technology for future generations of Teslas HardwareArray.
With the latest cars running Teslas Hardware 4 (or HW4, in short), this deal will ensure that the company has the latest and fastest chipset when its vehicles move to HW6 – as HW5 is already contractually covered by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
With each new generation of semiconductor, software -defined vehicles (SDV) become more intelligent and more skilled, which boasts the kind of treatment effect required for advanced levels of autonomous driving.
However, the news has annoyed many long-time Tesla owners, as Elon Musk promised back in 2016, that even on version 2 of its hardware, all vehicles would be able to fully unattended self-propelled-something that the brand has not yet broken.
There have been several attempts from owners to demand reimbursement for Tesla’s full self -driving (FSD) systems over fake advertising requirements that cost up to $ 15,000 at the top of a car’s list price at points.
Tesla continues to promise more from its FSD systems, which recently state that “unattended” versions will come later in the year. But with the company that is still investing so strongly in the next generation of computing, it has a number of critics that are skeptical of Tesla’s technology.
