Tesla launches its Model Y offensive, with new advances in Fremont and China indicating that an acceleration is imminent.
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Tesla is launching its Model Y offensive, with new advances in Fremont and China indicating that an increase in production of its newest vehicle style is imminent.
According to some reports, in Fremont, Tesla is already the new “Giga Press”, heralded as the “world’s largest smelting machine” that will bring a new era for vehicle production and efficiency.
A recent presentation to the Chinese government also suggests that the company will streamline Model 3 production with Model Y in China, introducing so-called “chromium removal” into Model 3 Features.
Signed through Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk, the company’s first quarter 2020 effect call as a potentially “revolutionary” development, Giga Press is expected to particularly improve the cost, noise and vibration of the base, as well as weight. Model Y, achieving greater efficiency.
The Model Y electric crossover, which began delivering in the United States in March, is now hailed as the “most effective SUV in the world,” as shown on the EPA’s U.S.-based fuel economy website.
Musk has already said he thinks the Model Y would be more than the model 3, Model S and Model X combined.
Although not yet available in Australia, it is on sale in the US. From $49,990 ($69,412 converted) and for pre-ordering in China from RMB 488,000 ($98,185 converted).
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Bridie Schmidt is a senior journalist for The Driven, a sister site of Renew Economy. She specializes in writing about new technologies and is very interested in the role that zero-emission transport will have to play in sustainability.
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