Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk has finally added form and the shape of a new model to complete his promised electric vehicle acronym S3XY, with the launch of the all-electric, hopefully mass-market Model Y SUV .
The Model Y was unveiled on a livestream event held by the pioneering EV maker, in the most anticipated unveilings of a vehicle since, well, the “mass-market” Model 3 that was unveiled three years ago and has sold nearly 150,000 models since.
The Model will begin production in 2020 (the northern’s hemisphere’s fall, or autumn), with a base model to be released in 2021.
The long range version will be priced at $US47,000, the Dual Motor AWD at $US51,000 and the Performance version will be $US60,000 ($A66,300, $A72,000 and $A84,600 at today’s rates respectively).
The Standard version will cost $US39,000 ($A55,000 at today’s rates), and will be introduced in the northern hemisphere in spring 2021.
Some have lamented that due to the fact the Model Y shares 3/4 of its architecture with the Model 3, it may not have the roominess most come to expect in an SUV.
Read the full story on RenewEconomy’s electric vehicle-dedicated news site, The Driven…
Fossil-fuel proponents have used a 'drop in the ocean' argument over their impact on the…
Australian households have installed a record number of rooftop solar systems and home batteries so…
Trump administration appears to have bet on the wrong horse, with renewables surging and coal…
Few home battery owners have signed up to join virtual power plants, with concerns about…
Zenith Energy’s Michael Buzzard on the remarkable energy transitions achieved in off-grid mines, and plans…
It is 10 years since South Australia's state-wide blackout: Far from being the end of…