Model 3 Mid Range Battery Available

Just in case anyone is wondering how this plays out pricewise, the base model is $46.2k, but they headline the price as $33.2k:<p>Price $45,000<p>Incentives: -$7,500<p>Gasoline savings: -$4,300<p>Price after savings: $33,200<p>Destination &amp; doc fee: $1,200<p>It&#x27;s rather disappointing that for all the talk from Tesla about disrupting the way people buy cars they maintain nonsense practices like adding on destination and doc fees, and add new ones like working gasoline savings into the displayed price.

It also appears they have removed the option for purchasing the &quot;Full Self Driving&quot; functionality.

This is neither the short range battery (220 miles, $35k base price) or the long range battery (310 miles, $49k base price). This is a 3rd option: mid-range battery (260 miles, $45k base price).

&gt; Model 3 Mid Range Rear-Wheel Drive $45,000<p>&gt; Incentives - $10,000<p>&gt; Gas Savings- $4,300<p>&gt; Price after Est. Savings $30,700<p>This is good news, but it&#x27;s still not the $35,000 model.<p>Also, what&#x27;s the breakdown on the incentives? I thought the federal rebate was $7500 if they haven&#x27;t run out of those yet. Are they including state rebates (which presumably aren&#x27;t the same everywhere)?<p>Including &quot;gas savings&quot; in the price seems more than a little disingenuous.

It looks like they&#x27;ve removed the long range single motor option. It used to be<p>- Long range single motor: $49,000<p>- Long range dual motor: $54,000<p>- Long range performance: $64,000<p>Now it&#x27;s:<p>- Mid range single motor: $45,000<p>- Long range dual motor: $54,000<p>- Long range performance: $64,000<p>So it looks like a savings of $4,000 off the older long range single motor.

This has 260 mile range, and the webpage says &#x27;Standard battery available in 4 to 6 months&#x27; so this still isn&#x27;t the $35k Tesla. Its a sort of in-the-middle option.<p>Long Range &gt; Mid Range &gt; Standard

They&#x27;ve probably exhausted RWD demand backlog so I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if this was (initially)a software-limited long range battery, so that they can sell their RWD inventory.

I just noticed they&#x27;re now advertising the 0-60 of the performance trim as 3.3 seconds. Only a week or so ago, they were advertising 3.5 seconds.<p>I might have to test drive one soon. My wife is strongly disapproving me getting a Roadster in a few years. If I find that 0-60 in 3.3 seconds is enough, I might settle for a Model 3.<p>EDIT: They also removed the option to purchase full self-driving. Interesting...

It&#x27;s still $45k, now we will have to wait for the non-premium interior option for the $35k price.<p>EDIT: $40k price since it seems that there will be a smaller battery than this. Seems like a good way to make more money when people wanting the smaller range battery get tired of waiting.

Enhanced autopilot is now $5k up front or $6k later. It used to be $4k up front or $5k later.

I really can&#x27;t bring myself to buy a new car but this would be about the most enticing. Even if I were wealthy I would probably still buy used cars (and my hobby is racing so it is not as if I don&#x27;t appreciate cars).

$6,000 for auto-pilot? When the sensors are already in all cars? Can I run my own models à la comma.ai?

This is mostly the end game of Elon&#x27;s Tesla Master plan:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solartribune.com&#x2F;master-plan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solartribune.com&#x2F;master-plan&#x2F;</a>

RWD base price is $33,200 (after incentives), even less than the long quoted base price of $35k, though presumably incentives on the standard battery Model 3 (not yet available) would make the after incentives price even cheaper.