Tesla offers for the first time a $35,000 version of its Model 3; profits to come in Q1 2019
FirstpostTesla’s pared-down version of its Model 3 sedan launched, the base model will have 220 miles of range Tesla Inc said on Thursday it would not be profitable in the first quarter, as it offered for the first time a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan and said its global sales would now be online-only, steps designed to increase demand and cut overhead costs for the electric vehicle maker. more tax credit hits later in the year too so they are trying to be proactive.” Musk has often shared that his strategy for Tesla was to build higher-priced cars — the Model S and X — whose success would ultimately usher in a $35,000 mass-market car, followed by an SUV, the Model Y, which is currently in development. “The margin on the vehicle obviously is going to be very small if there’s any margin there at all,” said David Kudla, CEO of Mainstay Capital Management, which has a short position in Tesla. That settlement between Musk, Tesla and the SEC concerned Musk’s August Twitter post in which he claimed to have “funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 per share.