Model Y Performance

New financing options are available for select German buyers of Tesla’s Model Y Performance, as detailed in an email shared on Sunday. Tesla is emailing some customers in Germany with a promotion offering new financing deals for the automaker’s Model Y Performance (via @Tesla_adri). In the emails, Tesla offers financing at 475 euros per month […]

According to the German publication TeslaMag.de, Tesla’s Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory is currently producing 86 Model Y Performance cars per day, claim unnamed sources. That works out to just over 600 cars per week — almost double the 350 units per week we reported the plant was piping out in April, but significantly less than Tesla’s goal […]

Tesla is already ramping up production at its new Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, and with the first few weeks of deliveries beginning to go out, one driver has taken a Tesla out to the local race track. Top Speed Brothers shared a video on Monday documenting the first German-made Tesla Model Y Performance to hit the Nürburgring […]

Tesla constantly updates its vehicles with new features and other tweaks even during the production cycle, instead of waiting for mid-cycle updates or model-year changeovers to implement improvements. Production recently started anew at Tesla’s German Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg, which is currently exclusively producing the Model Y. There are several differences between the Model Y units […]

Tesla’s Model Y Performance made in Berlin come with revised T1 Pirelli P-Zero PZ4 tires, as detailed in a pair of photos shared on Sunday (via Reddit). Pirelli’s T1 tires are a revised version of the company’s previous T0 tires, and they may include different compounds, structures and tread patterns, due to the way the […]

Now that Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, is operating at full throttle and delivering Model Ys, Tesla can gradually ween off its reliance on imports to meet European demand. Previously, all of Tesla’s orders in Europe were satisfied by vehicles imported from Giga Shanghai in China. There are, however, some differences between the vehicles […]

Tesla has delivered a Tesla Model Y Performance in Alaska, shown in a video posted earlier this week. One 2022 Tesla Model Y Performance owner shared video footage backing the unit out of a carrier direct delivery trailer in snowy weather, as seen in a post shared on Reddit. The owner reported that the Model Y […]

In a recently published YouTube video, automotive inventory and information resource Edmunds compares the Tesla Model Y Performance — the higher-powered trim of the gold standard for all-electric crossovers, against Hyundai’s latest e-CUV — the IONIQ 5. The host noted at the very beginning of the video that this is “not an apples-to-apples comparison” between […]

YouTube channel and drone pilot, the_wolfpack_berlin, has shared a new construction update for the Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin, Brandenburg, with drone footage from Saturday, January 22. We can see Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’s parking lot teeming with fully assembled Model Y Performance units throughout the video, but we’ve seen dozens of those parked outside the production facility […]

In a recently published YouTube video, Tommy L Garage puts his Tesla Model Y Performance to the test driving in fresh snow on all-season tires (via InsideEVs). The Model Y Performance was pretty impressive, even on an unplowed road fully covered with snow. Thanks to all-wheel-drive and its weight, the Model Y Performance does not […]

In a recently published YouTube video, Redline Reviews compares the 2021 Tesla Model Y Performance and the 2021 Ford Mach-E GT Performance — the higher-end performance models of the two popular all-electric crossovers on the market right now. The 2021 Tesla Model Y Performance has a dual-motor (all-wheel-drive) powertrain that delivers 450 horsepower, a 75 […]

According to a recent post from Reddit user daekwan, Tesla is now delivering the 2022 Model Y Performance with Michelin Pilot All Season 4 tires instead of the Pirelli P-Zero tires the all-electric CUV used to come with. The news comes after Tesla repeatedly hiked the price of the Model Y Performance in the U.S. […]

On Thursday, Tesla China delivered the first-ever Gigafactory Shanghai-made Model Y Performance to a lucky Tesla Employee in Shanghai (via @JayinShanghai). The news comes just a couple of days after Tesla China announced it would start delivering the Model Y Performance sometime this week. Tesla China delivered the first MIC Tesla Model Y Performance to this […]

Those that ordered a Tesla Model Y Performance in China may still be waiting, but not for very much longer, as shared in a new update from the company. After nearly a year for some reservation holders, Tesla has officially announced plans to start delivering its Shanghai-made Tesla Model Y Performance in the days to […]

According to the Tesla Owners Online forum, Tesla may be working on new Performance models for both the Model 3 and the Model Y, if code references are said to be true. The evidence in question consists of references to both new vehicles found in the latest iteration of Tesla’s firmware for its vehicles. The discovered […]