July 2 (Reuters) – Tesla on Thursday launched a six-seater long wheelbase version of its \u200cbest-selling Model Y SUV in the U.S., \u200caiming to boost sales of its electric vehicles after the \u200bremoval of a key tax credit. <\/p>\n
The launch version is priced at $61,990, according to Tesla’s website. <\/p>\n
Instead of launching new models, Tesla has been introducing different variants \u200cof the Model \u2060Y and its Model 3 compact sedan to stoke demand. <\/p>\n
The company rolled out \u2060the longer version \u2014 called Model Y L \u2014 in China last year, which drove sales in the region \u200bdespite stiff \u200bcompetition from BYD \u200band other domestic automakers. <\/p>\n
It \u200clater expanded the sale of the model to other Asia-Pacific markets. The three-row model, which offers 325 miles of range, is expected to help revive some demand in the U.S. after a \u200cslowdown due to the removal \u200bof a federal tax credit \u200blast year. <\/p>\n
Tesla on \u200bThursday posted record-setting second-quarter delivery numbers \u200cthat smashed past Wall Street \u200bestimates, led \u200bby a rebound in Europe, feeding hopes that in 2026 the EV maker can end \u200bits two-year streak \u200cof annual declines. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in \u200bBengaluru and Abhirup Roy in San Francisco; \u200bEditing by Sahal Muhammed) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 2 (Reuters) – Tesla on Thursday launched a six-seater long wheelbase version of its \u200cbest-selling Model Y…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,5028],"class_list":["post-777191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}