Hello and welcome to the Monday February 18th 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob Maower, just a quick

episode today, not a whole lot going on with the markets closed for President's Day,

and I did have to work a little bit late. It seems like the main news item was Tesla removing its estimated delivery

time for the standard range model 3 from the website. There used to be an estimate of four to six months,

I believe was the timeline for the standard range on the order page that is no longer there.

However, as pointed out to me by Chaz 828 on Twitter, thank you.

Not all references to the $35,000 base price 220 mile range. standard range model 3 have been removed from Tesla's website.

There's still that information found in the Tesla Press Kit at Tesla.com slash Press Kit.

I don't think this should add any concern to the future existence of the

standard-range model 3. Elon reiterated just two and a half weeks ago that they are

still working on delivering that standard-range model 3 sometime towards the middle of this year.

I think regardless of what the website says we all should be expecting that timeline to

maybe slip a little bit as it has for I don't know a year and a half now.

But this change to the order page is not influencing my expectations there.

There's almost no upside to Tesla displaying that information especially on the order page.

When you have someone in your storefront considering buying your

product the last thing that you want to do is say hey check out this other product

that we're going to have in six months that you can buy instead of the product that is available right now.

The only advantage to doing that is that potentially that person being aware of that offering

that's coming in the future might decide to withhold purchase of a competing option to wait until that future

option becomes available from you.

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