Tesla Model Y News

Autonomy aims to offer a more flexible alternative to traditional buying or leasing, at prices lower than rental services.

CEO Elon Musk handed over 30 Model Y Performance crossovers to customers at the factory, known as Giga Germany or Giga Berlin

As of Friday, the Tesla Model Y has an entry price that's $17,000 higher than it was earlier in the year. It's now also topped the original Model S entry price of $57,400.

Tesla may turn to different NCMA cells from LG for its Model Y built in China, so that it can continue to expand production.

Loose bolts could allow the brake caliper to separate and contact the inner surface of the wheel rim, preventing the wheel from freely rotating.

The Tesla Model Y managed to achieve the best occupant safety ratings in the federal government's dynamic tests.

A new Standard Range Model Y undercuts the base Ford Mustang Mach-E in price but beats it in range.

To be fair, many of the Model Y issues CR suggests sound like fit and finish issues rather than failures that will leave owners stranded.

Tesla shows—again with a new recall on the Model Y equipped with the towing package—how recalls can be made far more streamlined through over-the-air updates.

The 2020 Tesla Model Y is the first in a series of affordable electric crossovers, and it has set the bar for the competition.

Tesla could be stepping a refresh of the Model S up to September, and planning to make the Model Y crossover in California.

Tesla's main battery supplier, Panasonic, says the two companies won't have enough battery-building capacity to support production of the Model Y. In a conference announcing the company's annual earnings last Thursday, Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga told reporters that "batteries will run out if...

CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company has made more space to assemble its upcoming compact crossover in Fremont, California—although Nevada remains a possibility.

Our readers are nothing if not Tesla fans. After Tesla introduced its more-affordable SUV, the Model Y, earlier this month, we revisited the question of which electric SUV on the market our readers would be most interested in buying. It was one of the most popular polls we've posted in months, with...

Which self-driving system didn't rank well in the latest study? What car has given us range anxiety at least once? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 22, 2019. This week ended with lots of announcements from automakers...

The 2020 Tesla Model Y borrows some of the same underpinnings of the Model 3 sedan, and marries it to what so many American families today want: a crossover utility vehicle shape. As such, the Model Y has the potential to amount to an even greater sales success than the Model 3. The California...

Today, we run down all the current and near-term competitors to the upcoming Tesla Model Y, and look at everything we know about the car to this point. In the meantime, Tesla dropped the Mid Range Model 3 this weekend. And one-time Tesla rival Fisker revealed that it will launch its new lineup with...

As Tesla finds its sea legs as a larger-scale global automaker, the launch of the Model Y small crossover is its most critical test since the California company started in 2003. No other Tesla has faced this much competition. No other Tesla has faced much of any. When Tesla first delivered the...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk prefaced his introduction of the company’s more affordable upcoming electric SUV, the Model Y, Thursday night, by noting how hard achieving at-scale mass production of Model X has been—and what a difficult year 2018 had been for him and Tesla. “It was pretty...

Tesla’s Thursday night reveal event for the 2020 Tesla Model Y electric crossover SUV, just as previous events from the automaker, was raucous and packed with enthusiastic fans, including many who appeared to relish everything uttered by CEO Elon Musk. What made this event a bit of a...