If you take $30,000 in May 2008 and adjust for inflation [1] to February 2019, the equivalent price would be $35,005. In February 2019, Tesla announced [2] a M

If you take $30,000 in May 2008 and adjust for inflation [1] to February 2019, the equivalent price would be $35,005. In February 2019, Tesla announced [2] a Model 3 for $35,000. So if you're looking at the numbers by relative buying power, they weren't doing too bad up until car prices went insane the last two years. [1] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm [2] https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now