[mickrussom]

I heard on Bloomberg tv / news that Tesla has a target price for the Model 3 in the high 50's/low 60s. So they start in the high 30s and have upgrades that can double the price.

I find it unfortunate that there are this many upgrades. I wish they made an efficient model with a decent array of base features (eg, self driving stuff) without relying heavily on upgrades to get margin.

I hope Tesla comes out with a car in the 30s that is more or less feature complete (luxury upgrades like wood panels, Corinthian leather, etc are fine but tech should be there in base).

The other thing that seems unfortunate is the cost per kwh causes a lot of overlap with hybrid vehicles in terms of cost per mile. To me the holy grail is 100% battery 100% self-driving cars which will reduce smog and particulate pollution and increase air quality and reduce deaths per mile - we need to get there ASAP - but 60k cars DOES NOT HELP get us there faster and I really feel rats like PG&E are really monopolies gouging us on electricity prices terribly. .

Cost per mile kwh/price of gas / mileage: https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf

[extrapickles]

They have said[0] that a reasonably optioned Model 3 will cost ~$42k; so not a unreasonable amount more than the ~$35k base price. I wouldn't be surprised if a fully loaded Model 3 would cost the same as a base Model S though.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/715934657720639488