Elon Musk is serious: In 2023, a cheaper Tesla is to come onto the market that is said to drive completely autonomously. The low price of 25,000 US dollars should already be fixed – because the electric car is being completely rethought.

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Tesla “Model 2”: New electric car to come in 2023

A comparatively inexpensive electric car from Tesla was announced years ago. After the first rumors in 2018, these became a little more specific a year ago. Elon Musk is said to have mentioned internally that the compact “Model 2” in 2023 could appear, although not necessarily by that name.

To what extent the next Tesla will still be a car and not one mobile robot acts, time will tell. Allegedly, the focus should be so much on autonomous driving that important control elements can be dispensed with (source: electrek). However, it is questionable whether the Tesla Model 2 will really come onto the market without a steering wheel. Even the accelerator pedal and brake could be dispensed with with the cheap Tesla, as it is rumored. The concept is already in place.

This is how Tesla envisions a car without a steering wheel. Image: Tesla.

Important Security aspects Musk could put a spanner in the works. Although the acceptance of autonomously moving vehicles is increasing in society and in politics, the Tesla “Model 2” will probably not get permission for road traffic without any possibility for manual intervention. It would be possible, however, that the steering wheel can at least be retracted and extended.

in the Video: An autonomously driving Tesla 3.

Tesla “Model 2” from Gigafactory Shanghai?

When it comes to the production of the next Tesla Focus on China stand. Allegedly, the Tesla Model 2 is to be manufactured at least partially in the Gigafactory Shanghai. In 2020, Tesla announced a new research and development center for China.