Elon Musk said that, following the Model 3 Tesla Motors company expects to release even more affordable electric vehicle - perhaps more compact.
At the same meeting with the Norwegian Minister Elon Musk said the company received 400,000 pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 - is "a signal for the entire industry.". This week, management Ford admitted that the carmaker is working on a competitor for Tesla Model 3 and Chevrolet Bolt. There is "electric" version of the Ford Focus on a single charge passes no more than 160 km, and it is not enough to compete with Tesla.
In developing the body Tesla Model 3, the company paid special attention to the optimization of aerodynamics, as the site explains Electrek. As standard electric version Tesla Motors hopes to achieve a drag coefficient of not more than 0.21 - it would have been a record number of all mass-produced passenger vehicles. Reducing aerodynamic drag increases the cruising range on a single charge. For Tesla Model 3, this figure should exceed 340 km, provided the use of the battery capacity of 60
kW · h.
To cope with the demand for electric vehicles, Tesla Motors at the end of the decade will bring an annual program of manufacture in the factory in Fremont to 500 thousand electric vehicles, and can build a new factory - President of Tesla Motors on a regional motor show in Beijing, he said that the company may be built in China. Earlier about such plans in Tesla Motors already reported, with talked about the possibility to begin construction later this year.
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