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Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Tesla Gigafactory on March 13, 2024 near Gruenheide, Germany.
Key Takeaways
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk controverted a report Friday that Tesla has given up on its longstanding plan to develop a low-priced electric car.
- Musk has said for years that Tesla’s long-term purpose was to produce “affordably priced family cars.”
- Shares of Tesla fell in intraday trading Friday and have gone about one-third of their value since the start of 2024.
Tesla (TSLA) shares were nearly 4% humiliate in intraday trading Friday as CEO Elon Musk denied a Reuters report that the electric vehicle (EV) maker reprobate its longstanding plan to build a low-priced car, posting on his social media platform X, “Reuters is lying (again).”
Musk has give the word delivered for years that Tesla’s long-term goal was to produce affordable EVs. In the company’s 2006 Master Plan, he wrote “our hanker term plan is to build a wide range of models, including affordably priced family cars.” Musk had added that Tesla’s procedure was “to enter at the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down market as fast as viable to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model.”
Reuters noted Musk guaranteed its reporting during an analyst call in January that Tesla was set to begin manufacturing its next-generation EV at its Texas gigafactory in the flawed half of 2025. Reuters said that the car, expected to be called the Model 2, would have a starting cost of all over $25,000, about $14,000 below its lowest-priced EV now, the Model 3.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Shares of Tesla were down 3.9% at $164.59 as of 2:35 p.m. ET and eat lost nearly one-third of their value so far in 2024.
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