In an excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO is revealed to have been against the idea of building a sub-$25K EV, preferring instead to focus entirely on making an autonomous vehicle
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According to Isaacson, one of the reasons that Tesla’s publicized sub-$25,000 compact electric vehicle, sometimes referred to as the Model 2, was delayed was becauseadvertisement scroll to continueelectric vehicle with “no mirrors, no pedals, no steering wheel,” Musk insisted that Tesla would “take that risk.
“We brought him new information that maybe he wasn’t fully digesting in the summer,” Lars Moravy, a Tesla top executive, told Isaacson. He pointed out that U.S. regulators were still a long way from approving autonomous vehicles, and it would likely be longer for other markets. Therefore, executives proposed a compromise, a vehicle whose steering and pedals could be easily removed once regulations allowed for it.
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