Announced for months, the Tesla “accessible” continues to late. The presentation of the results of the second quarter 2025 made it possible to know more, and Elon Musk punctured the abscesses: it will be a stripped version of Model Y.
After a sales stagnation in 2024, Tesla experienced a very complicated 2025 start to 2025. The presentation of the second quarter results, available on its website, confirms the trend: income down 12 %, and even -16 % on car income. Deliveries, income from carbon credits, average purchase price … Everything is down.
In this slump, salvation could come from a mysterious “more affordable model”, promised for the first semester 2025 … but which has still not seen the light of day. Journalists fromInsideEVs However, noted an announcement of Musk himself during the conference to better understand what this accessible model would look like.
“Let’s drop the song”
Questioned by an analyst during the question and answer session about this famous mystery car, Elon Musk answered very frankly: “It’s just a Y. let’s let go of the song”.
So that’s enough to shower the last hopes on an unprecedented Tesla, and definitively burying the Tesla project at $ 25,000 taking up the cybercab platform.
This is not the first time that the “low cost” model has returned to rumors. Previous information has already mentioned the existence of a “E41” project, with some technical information.
Among them, a battery between 50 and 55 kWh (against a little more than 60 kWh for the Model Y Propulsion) and a list of downward equipment, such as fabric seats, the abandonment of the rear screen or double glazing – therefore what Tesla has already done on its Model 3 in Mexico and the entry -level cybertruck.
A crucial car?
Still at the conference, Elon Musk explained that “The desire to buy a car is very strong. But people just don’t have enough money on their bank account to buy it ”before concluding: “The more we make this car affordable, the better it will be”.
Indeed, Tesla’s health is still very dependent on Model 3 and Model Y sales: out of the 384,122 sales in the second quarter of 2025, 373,728 of them (97.1 %!) Concerned these two models. Decrease figures: a year ago, 422,405 Model 3 & Model were registered there.
It remains to be seen when this stripped model will be available. Tesla indicates that she produced her first units in June, with series production “Planned for the second half of 2025”. Lars Moravy, vice-president of engineering, promises “A availability for all” In the fourth quarter of 2025. It remains one thing: it would not be the first time that Tesla has not been a promise.
