Tesla eyes cost savings so it can make $25,000 cars in three years, Elon Musk tells MKBHD

It’s been a hell of a week for Tesla CEO Elon Musk: federal investigations, allegations of drug trafficking, and a tearful interview with the biggest newspaper in the world. So why not cap the week with an interview with popular You Tuber and avowed Tesla fan (and Model S owner) Marques Brownlee to talk Model 3 production, technology, science, and basically everything not having to do with this off-the-rails news cycle. The interview, which MKBHD promoted as “the most important video probably ever on my channel,” took place August 15th, a week after Musk’s fateful “funding secured” tweet about taking Tesla private. But that tweet, which has since spawned a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, never comes up in the course of... Continue reading…