{"id":109918,"date":"2020-07-14T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/tesla-scraps-plans-for-its-bargain-version-of-the-model-y"},"modified":"2020-07-14T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:22:17","slug":"tesla-scraps-plans-for-its-bargain-version-of-the-model-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/tesla-scraps-plans-for-its-bargain-version-of-the-model-y","title":{"rendered":"Tesla scraps plans for its bargain version of the Model Y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-scraps-plans-for-its-bargain-version-of-the-model-y2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla is scrapping plans for a bargain Model Y SUV because of its short range on a single charge, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the electric car maker began producing its pricier, dual-motor all-wheel drive version of the Model Y, which starts at $49,000.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla had planned to roll out a cheaper version of the Model Y \u2014 expected to be priced under $40,000 \u2014 with a single engine, rear-wheel drive and smaller battery. But Musk tweeted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/15\/cars\/tesla-model-s-first-ev-400-miles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">range on that vehicle<\/a> would have been \u201cunacceptably low\u201d at less than 250 miles on a single charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is scrapping plans for a bargain Model Y SUV because of its short range on a single charge, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet over the weekend. Earlier this year, the electric car maker began producing its pricier, dual-motor all-wheel drive version of the Model Y, which starts at $49,000. Tesla had planned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}