The Cybertruck steals the headlines. Nonetheless, Tesla’s most essential car, by a large margin, is the Mannequin Y crossover. The Mannequin Y was the world’s best-selling car in 2023. And it’s America’s hottest EV by a large margin. Tesla offered an estimated 109,000 of them in America in Q1 2024, making it the No. 4 best-selling car behind the Ford F-Collection, Chevy Silverado and Toyota RAV4.
Maybe the primary query a potential Tesla Mannequin Y proprietor would ask — even earlier than how a lot it prices to cost — is how a lot vary it has. The EPA and Tesla supply estimates. Nonetheless, the ranges skilled in on a regular basis driving will differ from these estimates primarily based on a number of components.
How a lot vary does the Tesla Mannequin Y have?
The EPA estimates a spread of 308 miles for the 2024 Tesla Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary AWD and 279 miles for the Tesla Mannequin Y Efficiency AWD. There’s no official quantity for the Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary RWD mannequin, which ought to presumably be extra environment friendly. Nonetheless, Tesla estimates a prime vary of 320 miles on its web site.
These numbers are considerably decrease than the 2023 numbers for the Mannequin Y. It’s because the EPA modified its testing methodology for EV vary in 2024, taking a median of the best-case and worst-case power utilization settings quite than utilizing the default drive mode.
However keep in mind, a Tesla Mannequin Y can have much less efficient vary if you’re driving it.
In most circumstances, whether or not house charging or topping up a Tesla Mannequin Y at a Supercharger, house owners will solely cost to 80%; going past that may end up in congestion charges at a Supercharger. Charging to 80% limits the efficient vary to 246 miles for a Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary AWD, 223 miles for a Mannequin Y Efficiency AWD and 256 miles for the Lengthy Vary RWD (if Tesla’s estimate is right).
Does the wheel measurement in a Tesla Mannequin Y have an effect on vary?
Sure, considerably. Choosing the non-compulsory bigger wheels on a Tesla Mannequin Y diminishes the vary. Tesla, per its web site, estimates vary drops from 320 miles to 295, placing 20-inch wheels on the Lengthy Vary RWD Mannequin Y, and from 308 miles to 287 miles, including 20-inch wheels to the Lengthy Vary AWD Mannequin Y. Tesla solely provides 21-inch wheels on the Mannequin Y efficiency AWD.
Does chilly climate have an effect on a Tesla Mannequin Y’s vary?
Sure, considerably. In Shopper Studies testing in 2022, the Tesla Mannequin Y earned simply 186 miles of vary when examined at a median temperature of 16ºF. That noticed determine was 32% decrease than the 274 miles the identical automobile achieved in temperatures above 80ºF. The then EPA estimated vary for the Mannequin Y examined was 326 miles. Precise efficiency will range. Nevertheless it’s protected to imagine a big vary discount in chilly climate for a Tesla Mannequin Y.
Does the Tesla Mannequin Y supply much less vary in freeway driving?
Additionally sure. Combustion automobiles are usually extra environment friendly in freeway driving. However EVs, which devour minimal power whereas idling and may cost the battery with regenerative braking, are literally extra environment friendly within the metropolis. A Tesla Mannequin Y in 2020 earned simply 220 miles of vary in Automobile and Driver freeway testing, effectively under its EPA estimate.
