Tesla Model Y

  • Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019

    In a Tweet Sunday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will host an event on Thursday March 14 to reveal its long-planned Model Y SUV. The company will host a reveal event at its Hawthorne, California, design studios, as it has done with all previous models. The company said it will offer more detailed specs, as well as rides in the Model Y at the event. The long-awaited Model Y will be an SUV based on the Model 3, which Musk has promised will go into production in 2020 in China and the U.S. Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10% bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10% more &...

  • Tesla potentially teases Model Y
    Unidentified Tesla Model flashes by in video, but Y?

    Tesla fans are agog over a teaser video released Thursday in which a cloaked car appears around the 15-second mark. Many are speculating that it could be a Model Y, with its high-ish roof and what look like four doors. And it could be. Then again, it "could be" almost anything, including a leftover...

  • Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019
    Tesla Model Y production to start Nov 2019 (also, Musk doesn't have time to shower): reports

    Amidst nine months of "production hell" for the Tesla Model 3 electric car, the company's next vehicle has somewhat fallen off the radar. According to a report Wednesday by Reuters, Tesla has now put out requests to suppliers for initial bids on parts for the Tesla Model Y, its high-volume...

  • Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019
    Tesla Model Y to be based on Model 3 after all; Musk 'reeled back' from 'insanity'

    It's fair to say that Tesla CEO Elon Musk probably raises more eyebrows more often than all other automaker CEOs combined. One case in point came in early May, when he mentioned during a financial-results call that the upcoming Tesla Model Y compact crossover utility would be based on a new...

  • Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019
    When will Tesla Model Y crossover to go into production? Poll results

    The Tesla Model 3, the first mass-market electric car from the Silicon Valley carmaker, is now nominally in production. Scaling up from a trickle of hand-assembled cars to 10,000 units a month is Job One to keep Tesla afloat by letting it sell cars to hundreds of thousands of hand-raisers globally...

  • Teaser for Tesla Model Y electric SUV due for reveal in 2019
    Musk shows Tesla Model Y teaser, confirms Model 3 deliveries next month, at annual meeting

    Tesla held its shareholder meeting Wednesday night, and lots of news emerged in bits and pieces from CEO Elon Musk and the rest of the event. We now know a little more about the Tesla Model Y, the mass-priced electric SUV or crossover utility vehicle that is scheduled to hit the market in 2019, for...

  • 2012 Tesla Model S beta vehicle, Fremont, CA, October 2011

    In broad plan, Tesla Motors has stuck by the "secret master plan" it published 10 years ago. It launched the low-volume all-electric Roadster, then the higher-volume Model S sedan and its Model X crossover utility vehicle offshoots, all at luxury price levels. Now it says it will put its Model 3 sedan into production before the end of 2017, with 200 miles of range and a starting price of $35,000. DON'T MISS: In 2025, what percent of new cars in the U.S. will have plugs? Our poll results We already know (from CEO Elon Musk's tweets, of course) that the Model 3 will be followed by a Model Y...

  • 2012 Tesla Model S beta vehicle, Fremont, CA, October 2011
    Tesla Model Y: Lower-Cost Electric SUV? Deleted Musk Tweet Hints At It

    Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is famous for tweeting bits of key product and company information. Looks like he's done it again, referring to a 'Model Y' that may have falcon doors as one of two future products, the other being the Model 3 affordable sedan Tesla plans to put into production late in...

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