Tesla Launches the Model Y L, a Stretched Three-Row Model Y, at $61,990

The Launch Series trim is the only way to get it for now, with deliveries starting this fall

Tesla has started taking orders for the Model Y L, a longer-wheelbase, three-row version of its best-selling Model Y crossover, priced from $61,990 in its initial Launch Series trim. Deliveries are scheduled to begin between September and October 2026.

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The Model Y L fills a gap Tesla's own lineup has had for years: the regular Model Y offers an optional third row, but it's a cramped, occasional-use bench that most owners fold flat and forget about. The Model Y L stretches the wheelbase specifically to make that third row usable by actual adults on a real trip, not just kids on a school run — the same basic move Kia made when it built the Telluride around a stretched Sorento platform rather than trying to squeeze a third row into the standard car.

At launch, the only way to buy one is the Launch Series trim — Tesla's now-familiar pattern of gating a new body style behind a single, fully-loaded, higher-margin configuration before opening up cheaper trims months later, which is exactly what happened with the Cybertruck and the refreshed Model 3 and Model Y before it. Buyers who want a more basic Model Y L, or a Standard Range version, should expect to wait — Tesla has not committed to a date for either.

Mechanically, the Model Y L rides on the same Long Range AWD dual-motor drivetrain as the standard Model Y's top trim, just stretched to accommodate the extra row. Tesla hasn't published a separate EPA range figure specific to the L body style as of this article's publication; expect it to land somewhat below the standard Model Y Long Range AWD's rating once the extra length and weight are accounted for, similar to the real-world gap between a standard-wheelbase and long-wheelbase version of any other three-row crossover.

For buyers cross-shopping, the practical question is less about the Model Y L specifically and more about whether a three-row crossover EV needs a third row often enough to justify the extra length and price over the standard Model Y — which is exactly the same question Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade buyers have been answering for years in the gas-powered version of this same segment, just now with an EV option genuinely built for it rather than retrofitted onto it.

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