The Tesla Model Y remains a sharp answer to the right questions

Ironically that only Tesla’s are set on fire now that the maker flirts with the wrong environment, according to decency. The half auto-industry does business with China or sells supercars to misogyne Arabs. Test your standards, I would say. Of course I am not going to defend arson here, but consistent resistance would also have to put VWs and Ferraris, or Renaults or Mercedessen built in Turkey and Hungary. Nothing. The double morality irritates.

That is why I will now just discuss the renewed Tesla Model Y. He has become very good if you can say that of a car that remained unchanged at the latest on the front and ass. You can argue about the apparently conformist facelift with continuous cliché light beams at the front and rear, with the rear light something special is going on. An invisible light tape shines from above a reflector zone that reflects the red with the creamy glow of a laval lamp. Beautiful and for the eyes less stressful than that often common-stinging LED lighting.

The car itself remains a sharp answer to the right questions. It is an electric SUV. He must be sparing to get as far as possible. He must all the more so because an SUV at the expense of the range is larger, heavier and higher than normal cars. That is why efficiency is consistent with aesthetics at Tesla. It built a kind of bought model 3, with a high back for the seating area behind plus immensely much luggage, but an almost absurdly layer -so -dolphin nose. Looks strange, works. The air resistance coefficient of the Y decreased from 0.23 to 0.22, exceptionally low for an SUV. And the powertrain was already the most economic of its kind. He became more economical than all his competitors. That’s why people buy this car. They see Musk doing his best. The acoustic difference between the previous and current Y is between a cart and an isolation cell. Where the previous issues had as poorly connecting body panels, the new visibly put together more precisely, although the finish is still not premium. In the Wraparound line of the mood lighting, which is stretched over the dashboard and front doors around the front seats, the lines at the door do not connect well. On the other hand, you also see such carelessnesses at Mercedes, where the quality measures also sigh under the great cost pressure increased by electrification.

Flawlessly change job

But all the good about him is retained. The touchscreen remained the best system in the sector in terms of ease of use. The autopilot changes, as you are used to from Tesla, flawlessly from lane. You just have to give direction and the car goes to the left or right as soon as the traffic situation allows it.

News is there too. The backrest of the rear seat is now electrically down and foldable from the trunk. There was an 8-inch infotainment display for the rear passengers. The switching lecture on the handlebar was replaced as with the Model 3 by a slider track on the left of the screen. Swip up for D, downstairs for r and somewhere in between the two is a P-button. Vooruit, get used to it. I will see the poker coming back, as well as the direction indicator on the left of the steering column of the new Y, with the renewed model 3 previously sacrificed to impossible push buttons on the steering wheel where you could no longer reach. The well -maker is of a wonderful simplicity. For most cars, wheel levers are combi instruments with a load of additional positions. This only lets direction indicators blink. The stem is thin and light like a plastic disposable knife without cartels, with the delicacy of the fifties. Keep it that way.

And he still uses little. Even around the freezing point you dive under the 17kWh at 100 km, for such a hot machine with 514 hp phenomenal. My long highway rides distort the image. In the Randstad, where the average speeds are lower, it will certainly achieve the factory specification of 15.3 kWh.

Furthermore, the renewed Y drives tighter and finer. Almost all EVs send synthetic, without any form of physical contact with the masses. The pleasantly sturdy steering of the model Y gives the kind of back pressure, which makes you feel more than in many other cars that you are driving something without having to tension the muscles. That wrong Bochel remains the smartest car in its class, sorry.

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