Spoiler alert, so reads the X publish by the Tesla Europe & Center East channel. The wordplay is, in fact, in reference to the bootlid addition depicted within the 10-second lengthy teaser clip, which is a part that’s discovered on the Efficiency spinoff of Tesla fashions, most lately the Mannequin 3 Efficiency that was launched for the Malaysian market in Could 2024.
The high-performance up to date of the Mannequin Y “Juniper”, the Mannequin 3 Efficiency packs a dual-motor AWD powertrain that outputs 460 hp in our market, although the US market model will get an much more potent 510 hp powertrain. Official particulars have but to emerge presently, although the specs of the upcoming Mannequin Y Efficiency could be anticipated to reflect these of the Mannequin 3 Efficiency.
Whereas the Mannequin 3 Efficiency does the 0-100 km/h dash in a claimed 3.1 seconds and a prime velocity of 261 km/h, a equally endowed Mannequin Y Efficiency might attain numbers near these, albeit prone to be barely decrease given its SUV kind.
For reference when it comes to battery vary, the Mannequin Y Juniper in base kind is rated at 466 km (WLTP) and 551 for the Lengthy Vary AWD; the Mannequin 3 Efficiency does 528 km (WLTP) versus the Mannequin 3 Lengthy Vary AWD that does 629 km (WLTP). Ought to the identical battery and powertrain mixtures materialise for the Mannequin Y Efficiency, this may be additionally anticipated to have much less vary than the Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary AWD.
Different revisions we will count on relative to the prevailing variations of the Mannequin Y Juniper ought to embrace uprated chassis tools to deal with the elevated powertrain outputs. Ought to this mirror the strategy taken with the Mannequin 3 Efficiency, this would come with utilizing adaptive dampers, new springs, bushings and anti-roll bars, and a decrease experience top, together with completely different wheels housing bigger brakes.
Potential inclusions to tell apart the Mannequin Y Efficiency from its lesser stablemates is also carbon-fibre trim and alloy-faced pedals, and extra apparently, extra heavily-bolstered entrance seats as within the Mannequin 3 Efficiency.
Software program for the Mannequin Y Efficiency might embrace capabilities discovered within the Mannequin 3 Efficiency, resembling Observe Mode which brings new calibration for the motors and dampers, whereas a drift mode and adjustment of stability management intervention, in addition to front-to-rear torque cut up might doubtlessly additionally carry over to the Mannequin Y Efficiency.
Extra will probably be recognized formally when Tesla unveils its newest product on August 29, tomorrow.
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– Tesla Europe & Center East (@teslaeurope) August 27, 2025
GALLERY: Tesla Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary AWD Juniper in Malaysia
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