The head of Tesla, Ilon Mask allowed himself at the quarterly conference conference the luxury of giving up speech prepared in advance. He immediately offered to turn to questions and answers, which not only pleased the analysts present, but also provided the workers of the news front with a large amount of material that can not be consolidated in one article.
At the event, the professional public inevitably had questions about the future models of electric vehicles Tesla. About them, Ilon Mask told, though laconically, but quite informative and interesting. First, as he explained, the compact crossover on the electric power Tesla Model Y will appear either at the end of 2019 or in 2020, which is more likely. Tesla sets a goal to increase by that time the annual volume of production of electric vehicles to one million pieces per year. Achieving this goal without reforming production technologies will be impossible, so Tesla Model Y will be produced on the most advanced lines in the world, compared to which even the currently assembled Tesla Model 3 assembly lines seem backward. Apparently, by the end of the decade, the principle of "machines making machines" will be realized.
Secondly, Tesla Model Y will be based on a new, more advanced platform, rather than borrowing it from the Tesla Model 3. The length of the conductors used to interconnect the components of the electric vehicle will be significantly reduced. If there are about three kilometers of wiring inside the Tesla Model S, then the Tesla Model 3 shortens the wiring length by half. Finally, Tesla Model Y will be satisfied with just 100 meters of wiring. At least the one that is involved in information exchange.
Mask also said that you need to move away from the standard of power 12 volts.