Tesla Model Y Compact SUV Gets A Teaser Image
Tesla just added the last letter in its “S-3-X-Y” model lineup by releasing the first teaser image of the upcoming Tesla Model Y compact SUV.
Tesla and Elon Musk has been in the news recently for all the right and wrong reasons. However, Elon Musk’s company is now back in the business of getting admirers and followers of the brand charged up. With the release of the first teaser image of the Tesla Model Y, Musk has confirmed the brand’s entry into the fiercely-competed compact SUV segment.
The image as such doesn’t give away much and sticks to the path of those annoyingly-vague teaser images which for some reason have to be released by brands. Anything to start the buzz mill on their upcoming vehicle, we must say.
The teaser images was presented at Tesla’s shareholder press conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. A report on Inverse presents more details on the announcements made during the event.
Look Ma, no mirrors!
roadshow: Is this the Tesla Model Y? https://t.co/cRMGiCUcih pic.twitter.com/luuSlZCvmX
— Drew Stearne (@drewstearne) June 7, 2017
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According to the report, Elon Musk is planning to launch the Tesla Model Y compact SUV by 2019 with the vehicle to come out of an all-new facility. The Model Y will be low-cost SUV equivalent to the Model 3. That’s very much like how the Model X is the premium SUV equal to the flagship Model S.
One of the statements made by Elon Musk during the event gives away the fact that he wasn’t completely happy with how the Model X turned out.
"I think we really made a mistake in trying to derive the design for the Model X from the Model S platform. It would have been better to just design an SUV the way an SUV should be designed, design a sedan the way a sedan should be designed — otherwise you’re just trying to shoehorn something in that doesn’t make sense."
The Tesla Model Y will be based on a new platform rather than taking the Model 3 architecture and building an SUV out of it.
However, the CEO kept the air of mystery intact and mentioned that more information on the project will be revealed at the upcoming reveal of its all-electric semi truck.
There’s a few other things I haven’t mentioned here. I really recommend showing up for the semi truck unveiling, maybe there’s a little more than we’re saying here.
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Tesla will also be focusing on improving the production speed of its Gigafactory setup for the Model Y. the lessons learnt from Model 3 demands and production times will be applied to ensure that the Model Y is built and delivered quickly to customers. A necessary measure which has to be taken by Tesla in order to meet the huge demands that an affordable all-electric Tesla car will be having in the market.