In 2013, new energy vehicles were not cheap. The standard Model S sold for 67,400 US Dollars in the North American Region, while the 85 kWh top-spec version went for 77,400 US Dollars.
President Chen considered a battery pack worth twenty to thirty thousand US Dollars to be just right, accounting for only 30% of the vehicle's total cost.
'How is that expensive?'
If Tesla objected, then Musk should ask himself if users in the Lighthouse Country were working hard enough.
Yamada Yuuki secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The Deep Blue Battery's price was 60% higher than Panasonic's 18650 cells, which would most likely dissuade Tesla from purchasing them.
Otherwise, to achieve the same range, the price of the Model S would have to increase by another 6,000 to 10,000 US Dollars.
Keep raising prices like that, and customers would simply walk away.
