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Elon Musk Blames Tesla Car Price Hikes to ‘Supply Chain Pressure’

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has blamed supply chain price pressure for the company’s incremental price increases to its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over the past several months.

“Prices increasing due to major supply chain price pressure industry-wide,” the CEO tweeted in response to a complaint about the changes.

“Raw materials especially,” Musk added.

The CEO followed up to say that “microcontroller chips” are a particular challenge right now, The Verge reported.

But although Musk said that he’s “never seen anything like it,” he added that he doesn’t expect this to be a long-term issue.

“Fear of running out is causing every company to overorder – like the toilet paper shortage, but at an epic scale.”

Musk had previously indicated in an April earnings call that Tesla was well placed to weather the global chip shortage by “pivoting extremely quickly to new microcontrollers”.

Electrek has been tracking Tesla’s price changes in recent months.

The Standard Range Plus version of the Model 3 has increased from $36,990 in February to $39,990 in late May, for example, while the Model Y Long Range AWD version has gone from $49,990 to $51,990 over the same period.

Since February this year, Tesla has updated its prices almost half a dozen times.

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