Tesla in March due to the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war led to the international price of nickel metal continued to rise, so twice announced the increase in the price of its electric vehicles. Among them, Model 3 and Model Y have the largest price changes in the past year, and the price of Model Y has increased by about 10,000 US dollars at most. But the tension over rising prices around the world hasn't lifted, so Tesla has again announced a Model 3 price increase, up to $1,500.
Only 3 weeks after the last price adjustment for the entire car series, Tesla can not withstand the cost pressure, for the Model 3 using nickel-cobalt aluminum lithium batteries long Range AWD and Performance models increased prices, increased by $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.
The two price increases in March were huge, with model 3 and Model Y adding $2,000 to $3,000. The premium model added even more, with the Model X Plaid even rising from $126,490 to $138,990, a sharp increase of $12,500.
After the price increase, the Model 3 Long Range AWD model sold in the U.S. market reached $55,990, with an adjustment of 2.8% ;P the erformance model increased by 1.6% to sell for $62,990. This time, Tesla did not specifically indicate which raw materials affected the need to change the price of the new car. However, the two models that have been raised from the increase use nickel-cobalt aluminum lithium batteries, so it can be reasonably speculated that there is a high correlation with the international nickel price.