Elon Musk speaks at the unveiling of a Boring Company tunnel in California in December. (Robyn Beck/AFP)A Tesla electric car that mainstream drivers can afford has finally arrived, Elon Musk’s automaker said Thursday, achieving a long-delayed promise that could help propel the upstart automaker into the American middle-class garage. “It’s excruciatingly difficult to make this car for $35,000 and still be financially sustainable,” Musk said Thursday. A Tesla Model 3 car leaves a cargo vessel at a port in Shanghai. The affordable Model 3 has for years been Tesla’s holy grail, a long-promised, long-unreachable key to unlocking a potentially vast mass-market clientele.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 22:26 UTC