Most cost-effective Tesla Mannequin 3 will get longer driving vary

The entry-level Tesla Mannequin 3 RWD has acquired a bump in vary for no more money.

It now has a claimed electrical driving vary of 520km (WLTP) due to the fitment of the identical 62.5kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery from CATL provided within the Tesla Model Y RWD. 

It compares to the earlier 60kWh battery’s 513km WLTP claimed vary, with the additional seven kilometres sufficient to get you from central Sydney to Bondi Seashore. 

The development brings no enhance to its $54,900 earlier than on-road prices value, whereas it makes use of the identical 208kW/350Nm rear-axle motor. This provides it a claimed 0-100km/h time of 6.1 seconds.

No different modifications have been made to the Mannequin 3 lineup – Australia’s second-best selling electric car in 2024 after the Mannequin Y SUV – with the bigger battery normal in Australian-delivered autos produced from early February 2025. 

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The RWD stays probably the most inexpensive Mannequin 3 – and the most cost effective Tesla in native showrooms – after value cuts of greater than $5000 prior to now 12 months.

At $64,900 (earlier than on-roads) the Mannequin 3 Lengthy Vary AWD (all-wheel drive) is priced $10,000 above the RWD however brings an extended 629km WLTP vary courtesy of a bigger 79kWh nickel manganese cobalt battery (NMC), inserting it within the top five longest-range electric vehicles in Australian showrooms.

The Polestar 3 Long Range Single Motor is the present vary chief domestically, with a 706km WLTP distance between recharges.

The Mannequin 3 lineup is topped by the Efficiency AWD, priced at $80,900 earlier than on-road prices and providing 528km of WLTP vary and a 0-100km/h time of three.1 seconds.

Regardless of remaining the best-selling electrical automotive model in Australia in 2024, Tesla gross sales in Australia fell 61.9 per cent within the first 4 months of 2025 in response to figures equipped by the EV Council.