>Rear drive standard range model 3 starts at 40K

Even if you round up $39K to 40K. It's still a far cry from your initial $50k assumption. $10K is not even close to being a rounding error and makes it seem like you're reaching.

You also made quite a bit of other assumptions here. You should actually fact check some of your claims. You can do the math yourself. Numbers don't lie.

If you can somehow show that the articles and data is wrong. I genuinely would love to see how. Because I put a high value on facts/data vs opinion and that will be news to me.