{"id":47806,"date":"2023-04-20T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=47806"},"modified":"2023-04-20T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T04:03:46","slug":"1139413_tesla-prices-drop-again-base-model-3-now-at-41-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=47806","title":{"rendered":"Tesla prices drop again, base Model 3 now at $41,380"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has introduced another round of price cuts, the sixth time it has done so this year.<\/p>\n<p>Lower pricing appeared on Tesla&#8217;s website late Tuesday, ahead of the company&#8217;s first quarter earnings announcement later Wednesday. It brings the Model 3&#8217;s base price down to $41,380 with the mandatory $1,390 destination charge, down $2,000 versus the previous base price that was announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100871791_m\" title=\"2023 Tesla Model 3\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"2023 Tesla Model 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"427\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_m.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_m.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_m.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_m.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871791_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2023 Tesla Model 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This new base price effectively brings the price of an entry-level rear-wheel drive Model 3 to well under $40,000 when considering the base version&#8217;s $3,750 EV tax credit amount\u2014if the buyer meets income requirements. This amount\u2014half the potential $7,500 available from the federal government\u2014is determined by new rules introduced Tuesday that take into account sourcing of critical minerals and battery components.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, though, the Model 3 Performance doesn&#8217;t appear to have been given a price drop, while the entire Model Y lineup has been given a $3,000 cut. The base version now starts at $48,380 with destination, while the Long Range and Performance start at $51,380 and $55,380, respectively. As we recently reported, the Tesla Model Y is now competitively priced versus entries from other brands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1139393_tesla-model-y-cost-now-dips-below-average-new-vehicle-ev-or-not\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EV or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100871794_m\" title=\"2023 Tesla Model 3\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"2023 Tesla Model 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"427\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_m.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_m.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_m.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_m.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/2023-tesla-model-3_100871794_s.jpg\" class=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2023 Tesla Model 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The big turn happened in January, when after a series of price hikes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1138432_tesla-cuts-prices-across-the-board-up-to-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla cut prices across the board<\/a> by up to 20%. The company then lowered Model S and Model X prices in March, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1138955_tesla-model-s-and-model-x-prices-cut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cuts of up to $10,000<\/a>. It then lowered prices for both models again in April, bringing the base price of the Model S down to $86,380 and the Model X starting price down to $96,380.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The price drops of recent months, combined with a clear drop in demand relative to supply, has sent used EV values into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1139159_tesla-model-3-leads-a-nosedive-in-used-ev-prices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nosedive led by the Model 3<\/a>. Tesla&#8217;s earnings update scheduled for later today will likely address the issue of production versus deliveries, perhaps indicating whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1139247_do-latest-tesla-sales-numbers-suggest-more-price-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more price cuts<\/a> might be on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has introduced another round of price cuts, the sixth time it has done so this year. Lower pricing appeared on Tesla&#8217;s website late Tuesday, ahead of the company&#8217;s first quarter earnings announcement later Wednesday. It brings the Model 3&#8217;s base price down to $41,380 with the mandatory $1,390 destination charge, down $2,000 versus the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}