Tesla is the electric car company that the big car companies such as Ford, Nissan and GM want to be. If the Leaf and Prius were the prototypes for a successful electric car. Tesla would be that final product. It’s Model S and Roadsters are the well reviewed by critics and loved by the public. We are still waiting on the Model X SUV from Tesla. In the meantime we got some news about the name of the first electric car targeted at the general public. In an interview with AutoExpress, CEO Elon Musk said that the new $35,000 car will be called the Model 3. Start saving your money now. The car is not set to hit dealers until 2017. Musk said that the Model 3 will have a range of over 200 miles per charge. The car will be powered by the new batteries built-in Tesla’s planned Gigafactory. The original Roadster will get an upgrade to its battery which will enable it to go 400 miles on a charge.
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said that they had to rethink the name of the car because of ford.
We had the model S for sedan and X for crossover SUV, then a friend asked what we were going to call the third car. So I said we had the model S and X, we might as well have the E. We were going to call it model E for a while and then Ford sued us saying it wanted to use the Model E – I thought this is crazy, Ford’s trying to kill sex! So we’ll have to think of another name. The new model is going to be called Model 3, we’ll have three bars to represent it and it’ll be S III X! ~Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk
The car is not set to hit dealers until 2017. Musk said that the Model 3 will have a range of over 200 miles per charge. The car will be powered by the new batteries built-in Tesla’s planned Gigafactory. The original Roadster will get an upgrade to its battery which will enable it to go 400 miles on a charge. The Model S is $70,000 and the Roadster is $100,000 well out of the reach of most people. The Model 3 will be the first car that is priced low enough for anyone that wants one buy. Tesla potentially could sell over a million of these cars.
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