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"This will probably sell more than the Model S and Model 3 combined." Not our words, the words of his holiness, Elon Musk, high priest of the EV evangelists, speaking at the reveal of the new Model Y SUV at Tesla"s LA design studio. It was inevitable that a sister car for the wildly successful Model 3 would follow. An SUV was the only logical play. So ladies and gents, this is it: Model Y. A small seven-seat all-electric SUV set to arrive in 2020 from $39,000. Take a look at the pictures (yes, all three of them, afraid that"s all we were supplied with), there"s a lot of Model 3 in there, but then they do share running gear, chassis, interiors and any other bits Tesla could feasibly carry over. When Musk first announced the Model Y would make its debut on March 14, he tweeted: "Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10% bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10% more and have slightly less range for same battery." To be fair, that"s some good summary right there, so if there"s somewhere you need to be, that may be all the info you need. Still here? Excellent. Yes, it"s 10 per cent bigger, but crucially it also has a hatch back, meaning that extra space is more accessible. Unsurprisingly, it doesn"t carry over the massively complicated, and heavy, and expensive falcon doors from the Model X (a car Musk refers to as a "spaceship," and a car he got "a bit carried away with") because like the Model 3 this is supposed to be a low-cost car the latest phase in his mission to bring electric cars to the masses.
Date written: 15 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15158
"This will probably sell more than the Model S and Model 3 combined." Not our words, the words of his holiness, Elon Musk, high priest of the EV evangelists, speaking at the reveal of the new Model Y SUV at Tesla"s LA design studio. It was inevitable that a sister car for the wildly successful Model 3 would follow. An SUV was the only logical play. So ladies and gents, this is it: Model Y. A small seven-seat all-electric SUV set to arrive in 2020 from $39,000. Take a look at the pictures (yes, all three of them, afraid that"s all we were supplied with), there"s a lot of Model 3 in there, but then they do share running gear, chassis, interiors and any other bits Tesla could feasibly carry over. When Musk first announced the Model Y would make its debut on March 14, he tweeted: "Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10% bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10% more and have slightly less range for same battery." To be fair, that"s some good summary right there, so if there"s somewhere you need to be, that may be all the info you need. Still here? Excellent. Yes, it"s 10 per cent bigger, but crucially it also has a hatch back, meaning that extra space is more accessible. Unsurprisingly, it doesn"t carry over the massively complicated, and heavy, and expensive falcon doors from the Model X (a car Musk refers to as a "spaceship," and a car he got "a bit carried away with") because like the Model 3 this is supposed to be a low-cost car the latest phase in his mission to bring electric cars to the masses.
Date written: 15 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15158
