I’ll point out the Model 3 LR is AWD, while the cheaper base I6 is not - once you add AWD to it they’re the same price, but the Ionia requires the lease loophole for incentives and may not work in every state sanely (double taxed). After that it’s not hard to quickly add options to the 6 for better equipment that makes it even more.
In my current shopping I have the 6 noted as about 10k more than the model 3.
That’s a USA political and policy issue, not a manufacturer affordability issue. Ioniq 6, Polestar 2,BMW i4 and Model 3 are about the same price in countries with less protectionist trade policies.
Maybe so. But I live in the world I live in, not the one I’d wish to live in.
Here the Model 3 is about 10-15k cheaper than the Koreans, and 20k cheaper than the I4 (which generally doesn’t qualify for any incentives). Haven’t looked much at the polestar - various reasons there.
I don’t disagree with you in your situation. However, the title of the original post is a general statement, not specific to the USA. This sub, as do many others on Reddit, seems to ignore the world outside the USA.
Because it’s primarily a US website, and the majority of posters are still based in the United States.
Most car questions are region specific; someone asking “why aren’t there more affordable options except the Model 3” is almost certainly American focused as the question is invalid anywhere else - the context tells us that. If they were in Europe the answer is “there are a ton priced the same” and from my understanding, in China it’s one of the more expensive ones. Given those are the primarily the places asking questions like this, logic says…
In other words - the OP is invalid most other places where BYD and some of the other oddball brands sell, so by basic deduction we can safely assume American. If we try to assume global answers for everything, without using deduction, we wouldn’t be able to answer questions much at all - they’d all be “it depends”.
In my EU country AWD versions of the polestar, ioniq and bmw start at 10 000, 13 000 and 20 000 euros more than model 3 LR. So you could say tesla is competing on price
I’ll point out the Model 3 LR is AWD, while the cheaper base I6 is not - once you add AWD to it they’re the same price, but the Ionia requires the lease loophole for incentives and may not work in every state sanely (double taxed). After that it’s not hard to quickly add options to the 6 for better equipment that makes it even more.
In my current shopping I have the 6 noted as about 10k more than the model 3.
That’s a USA political and policy issue, not a manufacturer affordability issue. Ioniq 6, Polestar 2,BMW i4 and Model 3 are about the same price in countries with less protectionist trade policies.
Maybe so. But I live in the world I live in, not the one I’d wish to live in.
Here the Model 3 is about 10-15k cheaper than the Koreans, and 20k cheaper than the I4 (which generally doesn’t qualify for any incentives). Haven’t looked much at the polestar - various reasons there.
I don’t disagree with you in your situation. However, the title of the original post is a general statement, not specific to the USA. This sub, as do many others on Reddit, seems to ignore the world outside the USA.
Because it’s primarily a US website, and the majority of posters are still based in the United States.
Most car questions are region specific; someone asking “why aren’t there more affordable options except the Model 3” is almost certainly American focused as the question is invalid anywhere else - the context tells us that. If they were in Europe the answer is “there are a ton priced the same” and from my understanding, in China it’s one of the more expensive ones. Given those are the primarily the places asking questions like this, logic says…
In other words - the OP is invalid most other places where BYD and some of the other oddball brands sell, so by basic deduction we can safely assume American. If we try to assume global answers for everything, without using deduction, we wouldn’t be able to answer questions much at all - they’d all be “it depends”.
In my EU country AWD versions of the polestar, ioniq and bmw start at 10 000, 13 000 and 20 000 euros more than model 3 LR. So you could say tesla is competing on price