Ten per cent higher. And ten per cent more expensive. Compared with the limitless hajpade the Tesla Model 3. So has the new Tesla Model Y described. And when Elon Musk finally unveiled the new Tesla in front of an audience in Los Angeles on Thursday night, it turned out sue quite well.
Model Y is a slightly larger, more suv-like car that still has a lot in common with the Model 3, which is usually described as budgetmodellen despite a price tag of well over a half a million for all except the cheapest. In the Model, Y is higher and has more space, but both the form and the interior is easy to recognize for those who have been sitting in a Model 3.
sitting on a large, touch-sensitive screen where most of the car’s functions are handled. In the Model Y is it in the landscape format, as in Model 3, not standing as in the more luxurious Model S. As an optional Model Y available with seven seats.
– It has characteristics of an suv, but is as a sports car to drive, ” said Tesla ceo Elon Musk at the launch.
with the speedy turn around between the hangars where Elon Musks companies Spacex houses. It confirmed the image that it is a car that is in many ways reminiscent of the Model 3, but the higher seat position feels directly. Even the seats are identical with those used in the Model 3.
the New model Y. Photo: Nicklas Thegerström
Tesla continues to emphasise its technology to make cars partly self-driven, which is called the autopilot. Teslabilar may continuously their software updated in order to improve the självkörandefunktionerna. Of course, this will also apply to the Model Y, and according to Elon Musk, the system is on track to begin to be able to handle in principle all trafikmoment.
Towards the end of the year will be complete self-driven, he said, and filled in a process to get software approved.
a full-sized sport utility vehicle with the Model X, with space for seven passengers as standard. Compared with this gives the Model Y, a much more toned down impression, not least seen to the car’s actual size. And the most distinguishing feature of the Model X, måsvingarna doors that open upwards, you see nothing of in Model Y. This will open the doors in the usual way, which some might appreciate, given that måsvingarna has been with a lot of problems.
the Car will come in four configurations, with a price in the range of 39.000 dollars for the simplest, to 60,000 dollars for performancemodellen. Depending on the model promises Tesla Model Y to do 0 to 60 miles per hour (96 km / h) at from 5.9 seconds to 3.5 seconds for the top model.
the Test run for the media with the new model. Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP
a charging handle. A långdistansmodell, with the price 47.000 dollars, to cope with slightly more than 48 miles, while the other may be a range of between 37 and 45 km.
All models except the cheapest is to be released in the fall of 2020, but those who are looking for the cheapest have to give to patience. The, which is called the ”standard range”, will be released in the spring of 2021, is the plan.
Tesla has recently taken themselves out of the least stressful launch of the Model 3, with the enormous difficulties to get up tillverkningshastigheten. Elon Musk gave a hint about an upcoming factory in Shanghai, China, may in the future become important for the manufacture of Model Y. But likely the first to be manufactured in Tesla’s existing factory in Fremont, California.
Model Y has probably been planned a long time ago. Already in 2015, Tweeted Elon Musk, who is known for not holding back on social media, that a model with this name would be at the time. Shortly thereafter deleted the post.
