Shortly after the price increase of Tesla Model 3 and Model Y in China (the price of these two models in China increased by 10,000 yuan (about 1,500 US dollars)), the Long-endurance model of the Model 3 and Model Y in the United States also increased by 1,000 US dollars.
With the latest round of price adjustments, the Model 3's long-endurance cost in the U.S. has increased from $50,990 to $51,990 (excluding options and incentives), the Model Y long-range now starts at $59,990, and the Model Y Performance now starts at $64,990 (excluding options and incentives).
In China, the Model 3 Performance price increased from the previous 339,900 yuan to the current 349,900 yuan, the Model Y long battery life increased from the previous 347,900 yuan to 357,900 yuan, and the Model Y Performance price was also adjusted to 397,900 yuan (387,900 yuan after the discount).
While Tesla didn't specify the reason for its latest round of price increases, some have speculated that it was due to the increase in the price of nickel for the Model 3 and Model Y battery packs, and the main reason for this countermeasure was the fact that the base Model 3 did not raise prices, because the base Model 3 is equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries that do not use nickel.
Although Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are still strong competitors in the U.S. and Chinese markets, these vehicles have undergone too many price adjustments in the past year, for example, the price of Model Y long-range has risen by about 20% since January 2021, and the price of Model 3 long-endurance in the same period has also increased by 10.6% compared with before, so frequent price adjustments are bound to bring some side effects.
The following is the editor's personal opinion, which has little to do with the article, and everyone can read selectively
Although the price increase in nickel this time according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonah said, the rise in nickel costs may lead to an increase in the price of electric vehicles such as Tesla, but this point was also said in our article yesterday, the price of most domestic new energy vehicles has long begun to rise, and according to the secretary general of the Federation of Automobile Associations Cui Dongshu, the price of nickel will gradually fall in the near future, so this electric vehicle price increase is obviously not a nickel thing, even if there is an estimated impact, and these car companies are now rising in price, How to restore the reputation of car companies affected by the price increase will also become a problem.
This year, the price increase of some car companies has caused the overall price increase of the entire new energy vehicle, for which I have a question I want to mention, these car companies when the price increase can not use some because the epidemic is not over, raw materials will rise, labor costs will increase, we car companies have not eased up and so on excuses... For the above situations, I still think that these situations are not really a big deal for those car manufacturers, but whether they want to make changes (do you buy raw material prices in the same house, is the raw material a tight wall, only this one has no other way?). ), whether the policy should be adjusted or not (since some materials and some new technologies can not avoid the second choice of mature and cheap technology), and the epidemic, after two years, you can not always take the situation in the early stage of the epidemic to the present use of it (are most of the foreign manufacturers like the beginning of the epidemic all closed?). Since there is no closure so and your production enterprises what impact), car companies can not always put your responsibility on our consumers, everything to a sentence affected by force majeure and other nonsense, and then additional increase the cost of consumer car purchase, you car companies always portray themselves as victims do not feel ashamed, say some because of the national policy subsidies landslide and the like, say how our black technology, the service did not mention the price first, and there is a point, When your car company's own production technology has not yet reached the same or leading as foreign countries, it has begun to benchmark the price of the car, and even the same level of models from time to time is more expensive, do you think it is OK?
For this situation I suggest that consumers should buy cars rationally, the future trend of the automotive industry is still the continuous progress of science and technology, the technology continues to mature, the overall decline in car prices, as for some car companies always take other excuses to say things, then have to let the market choose, after all, car companies also need a big wave of sand, especially in recent years there have been too many of our unknown companies hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat.