The American-made Model Y can now be ordered for delivery in February or May next year. More expensive versions of the crossover could be delivered in July or September 2022.

This rule is typical for many automakers with a shortage of components: the more expensive the car, the shorter the waiting time, because manufacturers are concerned with maintaining high profits while reducing revenue.

Elon Musk, at the FT Future of Cars Conference, commented on the situation with customers’ expectation of Tesla electric cars. According to him, “demand now ridiculously exceeds supply.”

The company is ready to limit the number of orders or stop it altogether in cases where the delivery expectation of the electric car will exceed the reasonable level. Already, some new order customers will have to wait more than a year, as Tesla’s president adds.

Interesting news about Tesla electric cars

Recently in Washington, a Tesla electric car on autopilot crashed into a $3 million Cirrus SF50 Vision jet. He returned to the runway from the impact. The driver of the car used the function Smart Call, thanks to which the car independently approaches the owner (based on GPS data from his smartphone). This option has been available to Tesla customers for several years.

The peculiarity of the function is that when the electric car is in Smart Summon mode, the owner must keep his finger on the smartphone screen. If there is a situation that requires stopping the vehicle, it is enough for the driver to take their finger off the screen and the vehicle will stop, but the electric car continued to move for a few seconds after contacting the aircraft, which may indicate that. carelessness.

Meanwhile, the previous day, Michal Gapinski, owner of Tesla’s electric car in the US, found a way to add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support to Tesla using a web browser, two Raspberry Pis, a few plug-ins, cables. and Android. You can read how he accomplished this here.