The first quarter is inexorably moving towards the end, which means that in early April, Tesla will have to motivate investors and shareholders who have been observing the growth of debt obligations and the constant occurrence of losses for the first time in a row. As a rule, Ilon Mask by the time of quarterly reports publication always reserves statements that can distract the public from sad thoughts.
According to representatives of the Ars Technica website, the publication of new details on the electric crossover Tesla Model Y, which will appear only in a few years, may become a "ray of light" in this quarter. While this vehicle is known only that it will be smaller and cheaper than the Tesla Model X, it will inherit from the "big brother" the rear lift doors, but will be based on the Tesla Model 3 platform. Even the appearance of this crossover is still being discussed only on the basis of sketches, Born fantasy of independent artists.
Ilon Mask admitted that new details about Tesla Model Y will be announced next week. He tries to convince potential Tesla Model 3 buyers that the lack of a traditional instrument panel in the opening of the steering wheel is not such a big ergonomic problem. It is assumed that critical information will be displayed on the central display to the right of the steering wheel. The history of the automobile industry knows quite a few examples of such experiments, but earlier instrument panels were shifted to the central console area, and no one attempted to abandon classical instruments at all. However, large automakers have long been promoting the idea of replacing "analog devices" with multimedia displays that display functions of the current speed and the number of crankshaft speeds per minute can be pushed into the background at the request of the driver.