- Tesla has brought back the seven-seat version of the Model Y in the US.
- The option costs $2,500 and is only available for one model of the electric crossover.
- This isn’t the same car as the Chinese-spec YL, and people didn’t hesitate to go online.
Tesla It reintroduced the seven-seater version of the Model Y Cross in the United States, and is now the cheapest three-row model in the American company’s lineup. However, this was not exactly what we or the Internet expected.
In short, this is not the same car YL model is for China onlywhich has six seats and an additional seven inches of wheelbase compared to the standard model. This car is only three inches shorter than the Model Our man Kevin Williams discovered this in China last year.
2026 Tesla Model Y 7-seat version
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Instead, Tesla decided to simply put an extra pair of seats in the trunk of the regular US-spec car Model YThis makes the mentioned seats unusable if you are over five years old. It’s the same move Tesla made with the Model Y before the facelift, which was short-lived.
Many Tesla fans didn’t hold back and responded Share the company on X Which announced the launch of the new version of Model Y. “It makes no sense without the larger YL wheelbase,” one user said. “Nobody wants this version; they want the Y L. You’re literally wasting your time,” said another person.
The seven-seat option is now available for just $2,500 in the U.S. and only if you opt for the Premium All-Wheel Drive model, which starts at $48,990. That brings the total bill to $53,130 after taking into account destination and demand charges.
However, this is not the only change Tesla has made to the Model Y in the US. The company silently updated its setup online a few hours ago, and it now appears that the electric crossover comes with matte black exterior badging on all trims, while previous versions had chrome.
Furthermore, all Premium and Performance models now come standard with a black gray headliner instead of gray. The Premium version’s front touchscreen is now 16 inches, up from the previously available 15.4-inch screen and the same Performance screen, but Tesla’s website says only the Performance gets Quad HD resolution. Meanwhile, the standard model still sticks with a 15.4-inch screen and a gray headliner covering the panoramic glass roof.
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With this update, Tesla has applied some of the features found in the Performance category to less expensive versions of the Model Y, which is nice, but Vehicle to load (V2L) It’s still reserved for the performance price of $59,000, and even then, It can produce only 2.4 kilowatts Through an adapter that is connected to the charging port.
V2L technology is one of the biggest selling points of electric cars, allowing owners to export power from a high-voltage battery to power tools and appliances, but Tesla has been very slow to implement this feature in its cars, even though it remains the industry leader in the United States.
