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> There has been some mention of a low cost EV, but I don't think we've seen sign of that yet. Last I heard was that it was cancelled.

From that same earnings call "We are still on track to launch a more affordable model in the first half of 2025 and will continue to expand our lineup from there."

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2025/01/29/te...

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We haven't seen any renders or heard any details yet, so I think first half of 2025 is either unrealistic or this will simply be a variant of an existing model. They also had to retool factories for the updated Model Y, and I assume they would have to do something similar for this vehicle.

There is (rumor) article from today here where they claim the low cost (affordable) vehicle is a "stripped down" model Y (at 20% price reduction):

https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-affordable-ev-str...

Unless they've already done the changes.

I'm not sure the 20% cost reduction is for a new thing, as they were talking about the difficulty of making a 20% cost reduction to all their cars just as standard practice recently

The domain gives it away.

That must be where Fool Self Driving comes from :)

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