Tesla has formally launched its design-refreshed Mannequin Y “Juniper” for the Chinese language market, and as many surprise when the electrical automobile (EV) will launch in North America, one other has been noticed driving in California.
As captured in a video from X person Teslaconomics on Sunday, a lined Tesla Mannequin Y “Juniper” was noticed driving in Santa Clara, California, following the corporate’s official launch of the EV in China on Thursday. Within the video, you’ll be able to see the automobile’s entrance and rear bumpers lined with a wrap to cover the newly redesigned headlights and taillights, regardless of them having gone public with the current launch.
The sighting comes as the most recent U.S. sighting of the brand new Mannequin Y, and the primary because the newly refreshed automobile went on sale in China. It shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock to see the EV driving across the Bay Space, particularly given Tesla’s engineering headquarters positioned in Palo Alto and its manufacturing facility in Fremont, although it does add to hypothesis as to when the corporate will launch the automobile within the U.S.
Some customers additionally famous that it was attention-grabbing that Tesla continued to cowl the automobile up, because the design has already been revealed, although it probably would have created fairly substantial buzz if it had been noticed within the U.S. with none masking.
You’ll be able to see the complete video beneath, as posted by Teslaconomics.
BREAKING: I discovered the brand new Tesla Mannequin Y in Silicon Valley, CA! pic.twitter.com/Xsf5DEk5M5
— Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) January 12, 2025
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Different Tesla Mannequin Y ‘Juniper’ sightings in current weeks
A number of different lined Mannequin Y automobiles have been noticed within the Bay Space within the weeks main as much as the China launch, most not too long ago together with a sighting in Hayward, California, simply days earlier than the brand new yr started. From the photographs and video shared in that sighting, we have been in a position to see the purple mild bar throughout the rear that had beforehand been rumored, together with hints as to the entrance mild bar, each of which have now been revealed.
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A couple of week previous to that, one other lined model of the new Tesla Mannequin Y was seen driving in San Mateo, once more with the standard masking. In each appearances, the automobiles’ home windows have been closely tinted, so we weren’t on the time in a position to see what the inside regarded like. One more refreshed Mannequin Y was seen driving in San Jose a bit over every week earlier, initially giving viewers the concept it might embody the purple mild bar.
Others have been noticed way back to August, although they’ve undoubtedly been seen with rising frequency within the final a number of weeks.
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When will Tesla launch the brand new Mannequin Y within the U.S. and Canada?
It’s not but clear when Tesla plans to launch the newly refreshed Mannequin Y “Juniper” within the U.S., Canada or different markets, however the firm may comply with the same sample to its launch of the refreshed Mannequin 3 in late 2023 by way of final yr. For that launch, Tesla first debuted the brand new Mannequin 3—then dubbed the “Highland”— in European and Asian markets in 2023, earlier than launching the redesign within the U.S. final January.
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