The $35,000 Tesla proved to be very short-lived -- less than three months, start to finish. Apparently, the strategy was a success – since February 2019, the Model 3 has become the best selling electric vehicle in the US. According to KBB, over a three-year period the Tesla TSLA, +1.33% Model 3 is likely to retain 69.3% of its original sales price, 20+ percentage points or 37% more than the Toyota 7203, … The lower price range is intended to make the car available to more people. Also, its base price is increasing by $3,000 because Tesla … Time is running out to buy the cheapest versions of the Tesla Model S and Model X luxury cars. The Model 3 is the newest Tesla flagship and also Tesla’s cheapest model. 9 / 10 Tesla Tesla has singlehandedly changed the electric-car landscape, and the Model 3 is the least expensive way to get one of the company's tech wonders in your driveway. The cheapest Tesla, with rear drive and 220 miles of range, called the Standard Range, has been removed from online ordering. But before you could get a Tesla Model 3 on the (relative) cheap, the company produced the (much) more expensive Long Range, AWD and Performance models first. Tesla is canceling the cheapest version of Model Y as Elon Musk says the range would have been too low, but the automaker is still planning a lower price version “in a few months.”