Tesla has officially started deliveries of the new Model Y in China, ahead of the originally anticipated schedule.
Tesla first unveiled the new Model Y in China and other Asia-Pacific markets on January 10, 2025. At the time the company was estimating the first deliveries would begin in March. It looked like that timeline was going to be accurate until Tesla announced that Giga Shanghai had officially started production of the updated model just last week on February 17. At the same time the company updated their website to indicate the delivery timeline had been moved up to February.
With three days left in the month, Tesla met that timeline and officially completed the first deliveries in China on Wednesday.
Deliveries of our new Model Y kick off in China today.
— Tesla Asia (@Tesla_Asia) February 26, 2025
Heart racing for more to come! pic.twitter.com/m2RFd6Tt6r
While deliveries have now started in China, there have been no delivery appointments scheduled for customers in North America. As of the most recent update, customers who placed their orders on the night of the debut are seeing estimated delivery windows of mid to late March.
The Model Y is first being offered with a special Launch Edition, which can be configured with all available options at no extra charge. Additionally, Full Self-Driving (FSD) Capability, priced at $11,000 in Canada and $8,000 in the U.S., is also included in the base price (C$84,990/US$59,990). While that price might seem steep, it is actually cheaper than a legacy Model Y when configured with the same options.
As of now the Launch Edition is the only option available in all of Tesla’s markets, with the exception of Europe. The online configurator in many European countries was updated last week to remove the Launch Series and introduce the new Model Y design to the rest of the lineup. Interestingly, Tesla was able to reduce the price on some variants, even with all of the updates that come along with it compared to outgoing version.
This is the second big milestone for Tesla in China this week. On Tuesday the company released FSD in China, but did not call it FSD, instead referring to it as ‘Autopilot Automatic Assisted Driving on Urban Roads’.
