Tesla Model 3, the electric car created by the tycoon Elon Musk, has collected 400.000 reservations of €1000 each: it is legitimate that it has big plans for the future.
Three months after the start of production, the Tesla CEO reflects on the possible sales triumph that in the United States would place it higher than the BMW 3 series and the Mercedes C-class in a single year. It's a titanic undertaking: to achieve it, Tesla would have to sell in one year the equivalent of all the electric cars sold on the entire planet in 2016.
Here is a graph (click the image to enlarge) that synthetically shows the production plans of Tesla Model 3:
IThe boom in requests has also produced the need to properly manage the components that will be purchased by Musk's company: the Tesla Model 3 setup will not include major changes, with a single 15-inch display (contrary to the 2 of the Model S) positioned in the center of the dashboard, without other accessories on the rear seats, or other types of screens.
Even the overall length of the cables needed to wire the Tesla Model 3 has been halved, from 3km (!!) of the Model S to one and a half kilometers of the current one.
"On the other hand," says Musk himself, “the more autonomous the car, the less information it needs: how big do you want the information panel of a taxi that accommodates you to be?”. Intelligent (and spartan) solutions to improve production efficiency and value for money, in short: no gull-wing doors or who knows what other bright gadgets. A real, essential, totally electric car. Sure, it reaches 100km per hour in 6 seconds, it has enormous appeal and will have viral diffusion but… who cares about these details? :)
It sounds eccentric, but it is a detail that cannot be overlooked: within three, at most six months from the start of production (and exclusively so as not to lose the customers of the more expensive models), the Tesla Model 3 software will allow it to drive completely autonomously. This too is undeniably a revolutionary aspect.
2018, in fact, will be the first year that will seriously deal with a mode of transport likely destined to completely change the way we move.
