Tesla has launched its longer wheelbase version of its Model Y in the US in an effort to boost the car’s appeal. 

The Model Y L was first launched in China in 2025 and is built in the country, it’s expected that this 180mm (7in) longer version of the car will be built in the US too so as to avoid any punitive tariffs. 

The Y itself first went on sale in 2020, and benefitted from a light facelift in 2025 but is getting old by car industry standards. Tesla will be hoping that a fresh model with a bit more space will attract some wavering buyers.

 The long-wheelbase version of the Y will be sold in Premium trim from $61,990 (£46,350) in its launch series guise. 

A standard length Model Y Premium in the seven-seat configuration costs $52,490 (£39,250), but there’s a significant amount of extra space inside the new Model Y L. The seven-seat version of the Y has not long been reintroduced to the UK market. 

It has six seats inside the cabin in a 2+2+2 formation, with the middle two seats as captain’s chairs that are heated and ventilated with powered armrests that rise up from the seat sides. The middle row also gets an 8in touchscreen. 

The long-wheelbase Model Y L is also one of the few trims in the range to offer V2L capability, where you can power electronic devices using the car’s battery. 

The car is visibly longer, with a different shape to the roof – Tesla says that official EPA (the US version of the WLTP procedure) range is 325 miles, which is only a two-mile reduction on the standard Model Y Premium. 

We don’t know of course what battery size the Model Y L is using, because Tesla is not in the habit of giving that sort of information out – it’s likely that it’s bigger. 

As a bonus to early buyers, the launch versions of the car come with a year of the company’s ‘full self-driving’ tech and access to its Supercharger network for free. 

Will the Model Y L come to Europe? It actually seems fairly positive that it will – Tesla is understood to have homologated the car for the European market (though it has got into trouble with that process in the UK in the last few months). 

There’s no official timeline for when it might arrive, but it will likely have to start production at the company’s Berlin factory, which isn’t yet the case. It’ll be aiming for a WLTP range of around 420 miles.