Tesla Model 3: Elon Musk finally delivers a $35,000 electric car – The Verge

Tesla’s new self-driving chip is here, and this is your best look yet

2019-04-22T19:08:29-04:00

In late 2017, we learned that Tesla was attempting to build its very first computer chip for self-driving cars, and Elon Musk said in October 2018 that the silicon was a mere six months away. Now - in an unusual example of Elon Musk correctly predicting when a product will launch - Tesla has revealed that the chip is actually here on schedule.

In fact, Musk says it's been shipping its new Full Self Driving Chip in the Tesla Model S and Model X for over a month now, and has been placing it in the Model 3 for ten days already.

And today, at Tesla's Autonomy Investor Day in Palo Alto, California, the company gave the world its first, detailed …

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Tesla’s Model 3 and Apple’s iPhone have a few things in common

2017-07-31T08:00:10-04:00

The question of whether, and to what extent, cars are like phones has been gently bubbling along over the past few years as we've watched the nexus of innovation shifting from the technology we carry in our pocket to that which carries us along the roads. It's obvious now that cars will experience transformative change like phones did before them, but how many parallels between the two are really there?

If you want to see a company doing its utmost to reduce the complexities of a car down to a familiar phone-like interface, you need look no further than Tesla and its new Model 3. This is the most affordable electric car in Tesla's stable an …

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Elon Musk should stop making that stupid sex joke about Tesla’s car names

2017-07-30T11:00:02-04:00

Tesla handed over the first Model 3 cars to customers Friday night at an event just outside the company's headquarters in Fremont, California. But before those happy early adopters drove home in their all-electric dream cars, Elon Musk spent a few minutes speaking to the crowd and to a live stream. It went about as well as most of his public speeches go, with the Tesla CEO oscillating between funny, awkward, and sort of heartfelt. And then, of course, he made the same sex joke he's been making for years.

It's time he stopped.

If you're unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, here's a mercifully quick recap: at some point early in his tenur …

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The Tesla Model 3 interior doesn’t look like any car you’ve ever seen

2017-07-29T00:53:39-04:00

Tesla finally delivered the first 30 units of the Model 3 this past evening, and now that the production version of the company's mass-market electric car is out in the wild, one key detail has finally been confirmed: the interior is going to look unlike anything else on the market. There's one 15-inch, bezel-free, horizontally-oriented touchscreen panel - and that's it. No instrument cluster, no heads-up display. The rest of what's in front of you is just a smooth dashboard and a the windshield.

CEO Elon Musk had warned as much on Twitter since last year's initial unveiling that the interior of the production version of the Model 3 would l …

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Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

2017-07-29T00:05:40-04:00

I felt like I was driving in an Eames chair. That was my first impression as I climbed into the driver's seat of the Tesla Model 3 at the Fremont Factory on Friday afternoon. It took a moment to orient myself - no gauges, no speedometer, no airplane cockpit cues. Instead, one continuous smooth line between myself and the road ahead, offset by natural, unfinished wood. The premium model of the Model 3 caught me off guard. After hearing so much hype about this car, I was surprised that my first reaction was a profound sense of delight. It wasn't bland, nor sterile, nor cheap feeling. Here was something different. Here was an exercise in minima …

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How Tesla changed the auto industry forever

2017-07-28T18:58:56-04:00

With the release of Tesla's Model 3 tonight to the first 30 customers (really just Tesla employees, according to multiple reports), it's easy to lose sight of how far this young automaker has come - and how much impact it's had on the rest of the industry.

Most of the commentary around the Model 3 is focused on the stakes for Tesla, and many are parsing over every tweet by CEO Elon Musk for clues about the car's cost, interior, and what sort of options will be available. But how has Tesla changed they way we shop for and drive cars? What realities about the nature of the business has it forced its competitors to face? Let's examine this mor …

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What do Tesla Model 3 buyers want from the most important electric car ever built?

2017-07-28T09:00:04-04:00

You probably haven't heard, but today is a very important day for Elon Musk and Tesla. Later this evening, Musk will host an exclusive handover party for 30 customers who reserved the Model 3, Tesla's first mass-market electric car. They will be the first people in the world (not named Musk) to receive what is widely seen as one of the most important electric cars of our time.

For Tesla, it's all been leading to the Model 3. If you believe the hype, this is the car that will rescue us from the evil clutches of the internal combustion engine - and for just $35,000. So the pressure is on Tesla to finally deliver on its promise of bringing cle …

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Tesla wants to make up to 200,000 Model 3s in the second half of 2017

2016-05-04T17:55:43-04:00

On Tesla's earnings call this afternoon, Elon Musk spent most of his opening comments talking about improving manufacturing, which is becoming an urgent priority for the company as it faces the task of increasing vehicle production five-fold or more to accommodate Model 3 reservations - just as it takes heat over early quality issues with the Model X. "Tesla is going to be hell-bent on becoming the best manufacturer on Earth," he said, imploring "the best manufacturing people in the world" to "join our company."

Part of that is a bold plan announced today to make 500,000 cars in total by 2018, two years faster than Tesla had previously plan …

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Tesla has received 325,000 preorders for the Model 3

2016-04-07T11:14:04-04:00

Tesla announced Thursday that it has received 325,000 preorders for its recently unveiled Model 3. If it sells every car that's been reserved, the company says it will earn enough revenue to make this the "biggest one-week launch of any product ever." A few days ago, the electric car company was saying it had received twice the number of preorders it originally expected to get. Now it's quickly approaching three times that number, which raises questions about the company's ability to meet its increasingly complex production goals.

$14 billion in implied future sales

If it can, it stands to make a boatload of money. Tesla says the number of p …

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The Tesla Model 3 will have futuristic ‘spaceship’ steering controls, says Elon Musk

2016-04-03T19:00:15-04:00

The steering wheel setup in the Tesla Model 3 - seen above in a shot from the media event last week - is not the version that will be in the final car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said tonight in a series of tweets.

Instead, the "real steering controls and system" for the Model 3 feel "like a spaceship." Musk went on to say that the lack of a traditional dashboard and instrument cluster "will make sense after part 2" of the Model 3 unveiling. That's expected to come much closer to production.

@HBL_Cosmin Wait until you see the real steering controls and system for the 3. It feels like a spaceship.
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2016

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