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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

All of Tesla’s 2021 Model Year Updates! (10.16.20)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

➤ Tesla has updated their entire vehicle lineup for model year 2021, extending range and adding features
➤ Breaking down all the changes over the last week and possible explanations for the advancements

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody Rob Maower here and today we have an exciting episode. We have updates from Tesla on almost every single vehicle in the lineup so we're going to go through exactly what has changed because there's a lot here to keep track up

0:18.0

So Tesla normally doesn't make these broad sweeping changes across the lineup they sort of just update each vehicle as they have changes to make.

0:25.5

This then is pretty unique for Tesla, and it does seem like they're making these changes

0:29.2

right at the same time that they're changing the model year.

0:32.0

So even though on Tesla's website they don't necessarily

0:34.3

designate what model year the vehicle is, the vehicle identification number does still indicate that. And from those VINs we've been able to see that Tesla has just now started producing those 2021 model-year vehicles

0:46.0

over the last couple of weeks. We'll talk a little bit more about that later

0:49.3

but let's get right into the changes here. Predominantly the changes have come to the model three but again there

0:54.2

are updates to all the vehicles which I've recapped in a chart here if you are watching on video.

0:58.9

We'll go out of the traditional order here of S3XY and switch it up. We'll start with the

1:03.3

model three so the standard range plus originally had a 250 mile range that has

1:08.4

now been increased by 13 miles to 263. The long-range version saw the most significant bump for the model 3, going from

1:15.8

322 miles before now to 353 miles of range, and the performance jumped up by 16 miles from 299 miles before now to 315.

1:26.0

For the standard range plus and the performance, that's about a 5% increase in range,

1:30.0

but for the long range it's actually about 9.5%.

1:33.0

Unfortunately at this point in time we don't know what is driving that significant variance

1:36.8

between the long-range all-wheel drive and the other two trims.

1:40.4

We're just going to have to wait and see once these actually start being delivered to customers.

1:44.0

Aside from the range, the long range and performance versions are now quicker, 0 to 60.

1:49.0

The long range non-performance has been updated from 4.4 seconds before to 4.2 seconds now and the performance has gone from 3.2 seconds

1:57.2

0 to 60 down to 3.1.

1:59.9

As for other changes, we have talked about quite a few of these earlier this week but the big one here is the heat pump I was actually able to confirm that the new version of the model 3 does have the heat pump this was just from one source at Tesla so it is possible that that source was misinformed, but from my knowledge, the model 3 now does have the heat pump like the model Y.

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