What you are missing is that a $25K would be quite a bit smaller then the Model 3, just as the Model 3 is quite a bit smaller then the Model S. The advantage t

What you are missing is that a $25K would be quite a bit smaller then the Model 3, just as the Model 3 is quite a bit smaller then the Model S. The advantage there will come from a number of places over the current Model 3. Structural battery will make the car lighter, cheaper and of course efficient. The perspective $25K car will also likely use a cheaper battery chemistry produced by Tesla themselves and a much smaller overall pack. The range should be the same or slightly only slightly less. Put those things together, smaller, lighter, lower production cost and slightly lower margin (15%) makes this very much possible. Of course this car would have upgrades to, in the car industry the base model has much worse margin then the upgrade models. > I know this is proprietary/secret, but I'd love to see a pie chart of where each dollar on a Model 3 goes. In particular how much is pure battery/drive system, and basically the whole rest of the car. You can go to Munro & Associates and they will sell you a report with a detailed break down of the cost for literally every screw and how much it cost to screw it in. You can even get reports on the difference between China/US and so on. They also have a lot of video very you can learn about this. They don't show all the numbers of course but they do show a lot of interesting numbers. See: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj--iMtToRO_cGG_fpmP5XQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj--iMtToRO_cGG_fpmP5XQ (Currently they are working on Ford Mach-E) If you are more interested in EV in general, not just Model 3, they have actually made their report of the BMW i3 almost free. You can literally get a report that used to be $50k for $10. See here: https://munrolive.com/support-%2F-store/ols/products/bmw-i3-reports https://munrolive.com/support-%2F-store/ols/products/bmw-i3-... You can go and build your own BMW i3.