Tesla Model Y Standard has a glass roof that you can’t look like – Jalopnik

Tesla’s newly rolled model Y Standard was supposed to be something incredibly important for the automaker: cheap access to the electric crossover market. Instead, what consumers (and the most important investors of Tesla) were a model Y missing that lack enough functions that even scratched Tesla’s strongest supporters at their heads. It is not even that cheap either. As we reported yesterday, the price still starts at $ 41,630, including destination. That is only $ 5,000 cheaper than the much better equipped model Y Premium.

Despite that high price, it does not have a radio, the battery – which is smaller – cannot charge so quickly; The engine is less powerful, there is a Dinky small stereo system with seven speakers, you lose a rear screen, the rear -view mirrors are no longer powerful fold and the steering wheel is now manually adjustable. On the positive side, it still has the same panoramic glass roof that every model Y has had in the past. There is only one problem: you can’t look, because Tesla has covered it with a headliner. You don’t get to see the sun, sorry to say.

Because the outside is still glass, I would be very interested in knowing how it looks close. I have to assume that Tesla has finished it in one way or another, and it will not only be a strange mess loaded underneath it, but you never know. Someone is going to look for a Rube who is going to buy a model Y, so that I can look at their car, please.

When asked why they did this for God’s sake Car and driver During a launch event that Jalopnik (probably rightly) was not invited, a company spokesperson said that it was more cost -effective than designing and installing a fixed metal roof. I mean, I am sure that is the case, but could not dictate that the most Would be cost -effective to leave the panoramic roof alone?

An engineer who spoke EdmundsAnother publication at the launch event, said that the roofing actually helps with the efficiency of the model Y, because the air conditioner no longer has to fight against the literal power of the sun that shoots through a panoramic roof that is not nearly enough tinted. It apparently also helps to reduce the cabinelruis, which is probably necessary, because Tesla cut out the double glazing that contributed to improving the refinement of the Model Y.

There are most likely valid enough reasons, but no brain genius is needed to realize why Tesla Real Did this. More likely than not, Tesla does not really want you to buy the Model Y standard. It wants you to see the “low” price of the car and then see everything the model Y Premium rear -wheel drive for you just $ 5,000 more and buy it instead. Do you want panoramic roof that your head will cook in the least sunny weather? Give Elon Five Grand.

What is a bit confusing, however, is the fact that the sister of this car, the standard model 3 standard, can retain its transparent panoramic roof. I wish I could tell you why that is the case, but I think if I contacted the almost non-existent PR team of Tesla, a grock AI Bot would appear on my computer and would never leave.