When will Tesla Model Y Australian pricing be announced?

A number of examples of the long-awaited Tesla Model Y electric SUV have been spotted on car-carriers and some local showrooms. Is Australian pricing about to be announced?

UPDATE: Just minutes after this story was published, Tesla Model Y pricing went live on the brand’s Australian website. Click here for all the details.

Australian pricing for the 2023 Tesla Model Y is expected to be just around the corner after a number of vehicles were spotted locally on car carriers and in some showrooms.

As reported by Drive in April this year, pricing information accidentally leaked on car industry pricing bible Glass’s Guide showed the Tesla Model Y electric SUV is expected to cost between $4000 and $10,000 more than equivalent Tesla Model 3 sedans in Australia.

At the time, according to Glass’s Guide, the starting price for a new Tesla Model Y electric SUV was listed at $67,990 plus on-road costs.

The top-of-the-range Tesla Model Y Performance was listed from $98,172 plus on-road costs, according to leaked prices published by Glass’s Guide. (Pricing for the middle-of-the-range ‘Long Range AWD’ model was yet to be listed at the time).

The leaked prices were not confirmed by Tesla and it is possible the company could increase the price of the Tesla Model Y due to unprecedented demand and a rise in production and shipping costs.

Photos of the Tesla Model Y in Australia have begun appearing on social media platforms in the past week or so, fuelling speculation an official price is imminent.

Customers who have placed an order for the Tesla Model Y have told Drive they were originally told to expect delivery in November 2021, but that estimate then got pushed back to December 2021, then January 2022, February, March and April 2022.

It’s now June 2022, so eager buyers are hoping the wait for the first Tesla Model Y deliveries in Australia is not too much longer.

Check back with Drive for the latest information on the Tesla Model Y in Australia.

Joshua Dowling has been a motoring journalist for more than 20 years, spending most of that time working for The Sydney Morning Herald (as motoring editor and one of the early members of the Drive team) and News Corp Australia. He joined CarAdvice / Drive in late 2018, and has been a World Car of the Year judge for 10 years.

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