{"id":158948,"date":"2023-02-25T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/an-entry-level-tesla-now-costs-less-than-the-average-new-car"},"modified":"2023-02-25T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:22:18","slug":"an-entry-level-tesla-now-costs-less-than-the-average-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/an-entry-level-tesla-now-costs-less-than-the-average-new-car","title":{"rendered":"An entry-level Tesla now costs less than the average new car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-entry-level-tesla-now-costs-less-than-the-average-new-car2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the automaker started slashing prices on its vehicles earlier this year, making them more affordable than some new gas-powered cars.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Model 3 now starts at $43,000, not including the $7,500 tax credit Americans can get for buying an electric vehicle. That brings the after-rebate price of a Model 3 down to $35,500.<\/p>\n<p>-plus other companies are lowering prices because of Tesla.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s Model 3 is $43,000 while new cars sold for an average $49,388 in January, according to Kelley Blue Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the automaker started slashing prices on its vehicles earlier this year, making them more affordable than some new gas-powered cars. The Tesla Model 3 now starts at $43,000, not including the $7,500 tax credit Americans can get for buying an electric vehicle. That brings the after-rebate price of a Model 3 down to $35,500. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158948","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}