Financial Associated Press, April 22 (editor Huang Junzhi) recentlySlotempireDue to the slowdown in overall demand and a series of its own problemsSlotempireTesla took many "remedial actions". Tesla cut the price of its fully autonomous driving system (FSD) by about 1/3 from $12000 to $8000 over the weekend, according to its website.
As we all know, Tesla CEO Musk himself has always placed high hopes on FSD. After all, people's expectations for fully self-driving cars have always been the key to Tesla's high valuation. He once said that achieving full autopilot is very important to Tesla, and he even said that if he failed to do so, Tesla's value would "basically return to zero."
In Musk's own plan, Tesla will build a driverless car and optimize it through software updates. And at some point in the future, the car will be able to make money for its owners as taxis that run entirely on autopilot. He has predicted that driverless taxis will be more common than human-driven cars in the future.
It is said that the car has a service life of 11 years, a mileage of 1 million miles, and an average cost of about $2 to $3 per mile, allowing owners to make a profit of $30, 000 a year. Musk promised in 2019 that a fleet of robotic taxis would hit the road by 2020, but that promise was clearly not fulfilled. A few days ago, he announced that he would release the self-driving taxi Robotaxi on August 8.
And Mr Musk's ambitions in self-driving cars have never been fulfilled. The so-called "FSD" cannot be completely automatic and still requires human intervention. Tesla wrote a reminder on the official website: "the currently enabled function still requires active supervision by the driver, and the vehicle has not yet achieved full self-driving."
In addition to FSD, in order to rescue sluggish demand, all series models in Tesla's Chinese and American markets cut prices as a whole on Friday.
According to the official website, Tesla's car is collectively cheaper in the United States by about $2000. The cheapest version of Model Y currently sells for $42990 in the United States, hitting an all-time low. The other two more expensive Model Y versions are also discounted by $2000, and the price of the Model X model has fallen to its lowest level so far.
The same is true in the Chinese market. The adjusted Model 3 price dropped to 231900 yuan from the previous 245900 yuan, and the Model Y price dropped from 263900 yuan to 249900 yuan, a reduction of 5%.Slotempire.3%. In addition, the price of Model S has dropped to 68.SlotempireThe price of the Model S PLAID version was reduced to 814900 yuan. The price of the Model X is reduced to 724900 yuan, and that of the Model X PLAID version is reduced to 824900 yuan.
Tesla has experienced layoffs and Cybertruck delivery suspensions in the past week, bringing its share price below $150,000,000, wiping out all its gains over the past year. The stock has fallen more than 40 per cent so far this year.