{"id":9307,"date":"2019-03-01T17:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:20:39","slug":"tesla-confirms-u-s-model-3-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/electric-vehicles-evs\/tesla-confirms-u-s-model-3-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Confirms U.S. Model 3 Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and Tesla have announced that the much talked about Model 3 (with a still as yet unknown Australian sale date) will now be available in the United States for a barrier breaking US$35,000. A change of name has been added, and Tesla offers the Standard range and Standard Range Plus. Deliveries will start within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla preempted the announcement by stopping orders, before reopening the system with the two variants being listed. The Standard Range Plus will add an extra US$2,000 to the hip pocket hit. What a buyer will get is either 355 kilometres or 386 kilometres of range, 0 to 96 km\/h (0 to 60mph) of either 5.6 seconds or 5.3 seconds, and either 210 km\/h or 225km\/h for top speeds.<a href=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-front-quarter.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3529\" src=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-front-quarter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be far off the same overall size as the Model S; it&#8217;s 4694mm in length, sits on a 2875mm wheelbase, and is 1933mm wide with the wing mirrors folded. Front and rear track is 1580mm.<\/p>\n<p>As has already been seen, Tesla don&#8217;t skimp on equipment. satnav, Bluetooth, 4 USB charging points, and a skin friendly tinted glass roof are listed as standard. It&#8217;ll roll on 18 inch alloys, and they&#8217;ll come with battery saving aero coverings.The interior will feature a large touchscreen mounted up high on the dash, and this will be the only screen made available for the vehicle.<a href=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-dash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3528\" src=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-dash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTesla have made much of their semi-autonomous driving system or Autopilot. Tick that option box and you&#8217;ll need to find an extra $3,000 in American money. A work in progress is the next level system, which purportedly offers self parking and a &#8220;Summon&#8221; system. The latter needs a smartphone app in order to operate it.<\/p>\n<p>However Tesla have made a change to their bottom line by announcing they&#8217;ll be closing their current dealership network, and the estimate is that prices should drop by six percent as a result of the expected savings. Any knock on to the Australian network isn&#8217;t currently known.<a href=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-rear-quarter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3530\" src=\"http:\/\/awheelthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tesla-Model-3-rear-quarter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/en_AU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tesla Australia<\/a> can be reached via the link.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"visibility: hidden;\" href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/blog-single-tg.html\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/blog-single-tg.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and Tesla have announced that the much talked about Model 3 (with a still as yet unknown Australian sale date) will now be available in the United States for a barrier breaking US$35,000. A change of name has been added, and Tesla offers the Standard range and Standard Range Plus. Deliveries will start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles-evs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}