The Tesla Model Y is now available with seven seats in the UK
The Model X may have gone, but for £2,500 extra you can now have a third row in a Model Y
Tesla has finally announced that you’ll be able to spec a Model Y with seven seats in the UK. Yep, we’ve been denied the third-row seating option that’s available in the US, but now that the larger Model X has disappeared from our shores it makes sense for Tesla to make the Model Y that little bit more practical.
The seven-seat interior will be a £2,500 option and will only be available on the Long Range All-Wheel Drive iteration of the Model Y. Prices for that car start at £51,990. There still aren’t that many seven-seat EVs available at that price point in the UK, so the Y will be up against cars like the Mercedes EQB and the Peugeot E-5008.
We’re yet to experience the Model Y’s third row in person, but it does look a little cramped back there in the boot.
You lose around 100 litres of luggage space if you spec the extra seating too, although Tesla reckons there’s still a useful 363 litres of space even when the third row is occupied. When those two seats are folded flat you get 753 litres.
A facelifted Model Y is expected at some point next year. So, this or the Mercedes EQB?
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