Tesla’s cheaper RWD Model Y is now available in the US

Tesla has started taking orders for its cheaper rear-wheel thrust Model Y successful the US. The $45,990 conveyance costs $37,490 aft national taxation subsidies (as agelong as they inactive exist), making it the second-cheapest EV successful the company’s lineup aft the RWD Model 3.

The caller option, which Tesla says volition commencement US transportation wrong the adjacent fewer weeks, comes with 357 miles of range, oregon 30 miles much than the all-wheel thrust Model Y. It has a azygous centrifugal connected the rear axel, and accelerates from zero to 60 successful 5.4 seconds, which is simply a small slower than the 4.6 seconds of its AWD counterpart. 

Tesla needs cheaper EVs to boost sales. Amid growing protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk targeted Tesla showrooms, Tesla reported its worst income successful 3 years. Ideally for Tesla, this cheaper EV would reverse its fortunes, though the cheaper Model Ys haven’t had that effect successful Europe, wherever they launched successful February. CNN reports that income proceed to driblet there, adjacent successful the much Tesla-friendly UK, wherever the company’s April income plummeted by 62 percent. 

Things aren’t looking immoderate amended successful China, wherever deliveries dropped by 26 percent compared to March, thing the South China Morning Post attributes to a penchant for “cheaper, tech-laden” Chinese home models.