Tesla plans modified models for China

This week, Zakari Shahehan, director of Cleantechnica, wrote an article asking whether Tesla’s failure to bring new models to the market would be a retreat from the company. It is an appropriate question to ask, as every other car industry company – especially those in China – accelerate new marketing models at a superpower, but Tesla offers healthy dolls from “the old, old, old” and customers expected to buy them. I succeeded with Henry Ford when the T model was only in black, so why shouldn’t it work with Elon Musk after a century?

Well, as it turned out, Tesla China announced this week two new types of the only two cars that they sell in the country-Y-3 rows, 6 Y. and 3-style 3-style model with a runway range of 800 km (497 miles)-with a few more clicks than the double car. My heart is still beating! How much excitement is expected to bear the human body? But I go.

According to CNEVPOST, the YL model is larger than the Y and equipped with dual engines and three -way batteries provided by LG power solution. The car is expected to be for about 400,000 yuan ($ 55,710), with this autumn delivery start. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released a new organizational catalog this week for the general suspension, which lists the YL model as six seats. The vehicles consisting of three rows are now one of the most important sectors in the new Chinese car market, where electric cars are now more than 50 percent in the market.

Tesla Model YL is 4,976 mm (16.3 feet), 1920 mm (6.3 feet), and 1668 mm (5.5 feet), with a wheelbase of 3,040 mm (10 feet). By comparison, the Y -Five -seats launched in China on January 10 4,797 mm (15.7 feet), 1920 mm width in (6.3 feet), with a height of 162 mm (5.3 feet), with a wheelbase of 2,890 mm (9.5 feet). The YL model will have a double electrical engines that were ranked on 142 kW (192 hp) in the front and 198 kW (265 hp) in the back, according to CNEVPOST. The car, consisting of 6 passengers, 2.088 kg (4600 pounds) and a top speed of 201 km/h (125 miles per hour).

If, as expected, the price of the car is 400,000 yuan ($ 55,710), this is a very slope increase from the current single version that starts from 263,500 yuan ($ 36,700) and a long -term long -term version that starts from 313,500 yuan ($ 43,700).

We have heard the competitiveness of the Chinese market, and it seems that Tesla may face a hard rise to find Y. NIO clients consisting of 6 passengers this week, and the 6 -pass -drive SUV has offered despite the sub -brand. It is called L90, and will start from 279,900 yuan ($ 39,000), which is less than $ 16,000 less than the new Tesla. A copy of 7 passengers is expected to appear for the first time later this year.

Tesla is against it in China, where sales sales were much lower than four than the first six months of 2025. From January to June, the total retail sales in China amounted to 171,491 units, which decreased more than 17 percent on an annual basis. Sales increased in June by 9 percent during June of 2024, which hopes at least.

The design of the new YL model is a little if it is a puzzle. The company released the image that it sees above, which is looking for the world like the Y model that we all know and love. But as CNEVPOST indicates, Tesla did not actually say it is a picture of the new car. Below is another picture that shows the back of the 6 -seat car and shows a somewhat unspecified treatment in the back of the new car looking for the whole world, such as the bracelet, designed by BMWS designed by former chief designer Chris Bangal from 1992 to 2009.

Beauty in the eye of the beholder, of course, but the informal inspection of both pictures makes it difficult to believe that they are pictures of the same car. Your miles may vary. See the agent for details!

One single -style model is 300 km

Also in the news from China this week, there is an advertisement issued by the Tesla for a single -sized Rwd Model 3 sedel that has been ranked over 800 km (500 miles) using a very generous Chinese classification system. The EPA range is likely to be more than 350 miles, but this is still an achievement and the current 3 LR model in China exceeds 50 km.

The new new kinetic model comes with a 225 kW-20 kWh engine more than a mono-3 kinetic model. Like the Y. 6 passengers, it is equipped with three LG-ion Li-ion batteries from the LG power solution. The current individual engine uses the Catl LFP batteries and starts from 235,500 yuan (32,800 dollars). The new model will be known as the 3+ model. According to the Chinese news port, it is scheduled to be launched in early September in China and starts from 270,000 yuan ($ 37,600). The current Motor 3 starts from 285,500 yuan ($ 39,800), and the 339,500 yuan ($ 47300) performance begins. Model 3+ has the same dimensions of existing models, weighing the same dimensions, and it has the same maximum speed of the current kinetic car.

In June, the total retail sales of models 3 in China reached 16,636 units, an annual decrease of 8.35 percent, and the celebration of the second consecutive decrease from the decline on an annual basis. However, the Model 3 sedan seen 91,919 units in China from January to June, an increase of 30 percent year -on -year compared to 2024.

Ready -made meals

Tesla deserves some credit for modifying its offers in China, but are these changes sufficient to stop its long slide down because it was the best sales sign in China in 2024? There are many skeptics. Are Chinese clients ready to exceed an additional $ 5,000 for another 50 miles of their 3 range? Is it possible that they are more than fifteen years old in an additional seat in their Y, especially if it comes to a welded bustle to the place where the rear window ends?

Tesla seems to think so, but the loud group in Cleantechnica is skeptical. For us, this seems to be an old age actor who hopes that another Botox shot will create a glorious profession one day. Do you get the right path here? “We will see,” said Sayed Zen.