Recently, Tesla has just cut the price of its best-selling models Model 3 and Modely by 1550,000 yuan and 0750,000 yuan, starting a large number of activities. Just two days ago, on January 28, Tesla's new car Cybertruck officially opened a national tour, unveiling at the same time in 8 cities in China: Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Chongqing.
However, the Cybertruck will not be able to be launched in China in the short term, but Tesla's existing model lineup has been sold for many years, and in the face of the rapidly changing Chinese new energy vehicle market, Tesla's product lineup needs to be updated urgently.
In addition, in the fourth quarter of 2023, BYD's pure electric vehicle sales reached 5260,000 units, Tesla sold 48 in the same periodWith 50,000 units, BYD's quarterly sales of pure electric vehicles recently surpassed Tesla, becoming the world's largest seller of electric vehicles.
This series of changes has put huge pressure on Tesla, so Tesla is rumored to be developing low-cost electric vehicles to cope with the current situation.
According to foreign media reports, Tesla will start producing the legendary low-cost pure electric vehicle by June 2025, which is internally codenamed "Redwood" and has a starting price of 250,000 US dollars (about RMB 17.)90,000 yuan).
What's more interesting is that Tesla has dismantled a Honda Civic in order to study how to make low-cost electric cars. It is reported that the Civic has a starting price of $2 in the United States40,000 US dollars (about 170,000 yuan), which is 2$50,000 entry car is cheaper.
Nowadays, traditional car companies have made efforts to transform into electrification, such as Volkswagen, Audi and other manufacturers have climbed to Chinese car companies to seek to accelerate the development of electric vehicles. The market will be more severe in the future, will Tesla fall off the altar?