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Model Y has a starting price of 42,000 euros in Europe

The trend of recent months is the rise in prices of electric vehicles, in the secondary market since July last year, prices have increased by one and a half times, as statistics show. In this context, a surprise was the appearance in the configurator on the Tesla website for European markets of a new version of the Model Y crossover with rear-wheel drive and a range of 455 km at a price of 42,000 euros excluding taxes.

Formally, as Electrek explains, in the Netherlands such an electric car costs €50,000 including VAT, but it is €16,000 cheaper than the more affordable option that has so far been offered to local Tesla customers. Previously, the crossover was available here only with two-axle drive, and the power reserve of the most affordable version in the WLTP cycle reached 533 km.

As the authors of the publication argue, at the current conditional parity of the euro and the dollar, a rear-wheel-drive electric car would cost $20,000 less in the US than the more affordable Model Y crossover for the local market. In some European markets, the new Model Y version is even cheaper than the newest Model 3 version. The company is ready to deliver the new Model Y variant in Europe by December this year or February 2023.

This electric car has two most likely sources of supply. Either Tesla will assemble the more affordable version of the Model Y at a new facility in Berlin by December, or the Shanghai facility will be able to export them in sufficient quantities, as long as they are equipped with cheaper CATL-branded LFP batteries, which are commonly used. in the production of basic versions of Tesla in China. The second option seems more likely so far.

Interestingly, the company refused to supply the Model Y Standard Range in the United States, as Elon Musk called the range of no more than 393 km achieved by an EPA cycle electric car very modest and sales quickly reduced. Apparently, on the European continent, these distances overlap with the ability to refill the traction battery more successfully, so this version of the Model Y is offered to local customers. Furthermore, in Europe, a more “optimistic” WLTP cycle is used, which results in 455 km of conventional cruising range without recharging.

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