Tesla Slashes Model S and X Prices for the Second Time This Year
Tesla Inc. reduced prices of its more expensive models again, days after Elon Musk said cuts earlier this year had piqued interest in the company's electric vehicles.
The company lowered prices of the higher-performance Plaid versions of each vehicle by 4.3% and 8.3%.
At $109,990, Plaid iterations of the S and X now cost $26,000 and $29,000 less than they did in early January.
Musk said last week that desire to own Teslas was “indistinguishable from infinite,” and that demand will “go crazy” as the company makes its cars more affordable. Reducing prices of S and the X models again suggests those vehicles may have gotten less of a boost from cuts the company made across its lineup seven weeks ago.
“We found that even small changes in the price have a big effect on demand, very big,” Musk said during Tesla's March 1 investor day.
Tesla shares fell 0.8% as of 9:55 a.m. New York time Monday. The stock has climbed 61% this year after plunging 65% in 2022.
The Model S and X were just over 5% of Tesla's vehicle deliveries last year, so changing their pricing will have less of an effect on the company's bottom line and EV market dynamics than adjusting the cost of higher-volume vehicles. Still, the cuts are consistent with comments Musk and other executives made last week about squeezing expense out of how it designs, engineers and manufactures vehicles in order to unlock more demand.
“Tesla is sprinting in a global automotive marathon to cut costs, as they strive to be a global manufacturing champion that can give the company a sustainable competitive advantage,” said Joel Levington, a Bloomberg Intelligence credit analyst.
Tesla's dynamic pricing is unique in the automotive world, where manufacturers typically only make changes to
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