Tesla – the Austin, Texas-based American clean energy and automotive company – is everyone's darling these days, including the imaginative realm of digital car content creators.
The newly delivered Lucid Air Sapphire was at an event at Sonoma Raceway, where it dragged itself to an alleged quarter-mile best of 8.94s, clearly throwing the gauntlet at Tesla Model S Plaids racing around the world. The Kia EV3 and EV4 concepts were revealed as upcoming affordable alternatives to the Tesla Model 3 and Y, and people are starting to count the (4680) battery cells needed to build 25k units of Cybertrucks per year.
But that's not all, as the recently announced Tesla Model 3 facelift (known as Project Highland) was spotted in the United States from China. Plus, the company is proposing new financial deals to make sure it will sell or lease the remaining pre-refresh Model 3s. So, are we surprised that the parallel universes of vehicular CGI are also quite interested in what Tesla is doing?
According to PoloTo, which is a distinctively-named automotive news video channel on YouTube - and they also share visions of new models created with assistance from AI, there is a rumor going on across the mill that Tesla might finally prepare an additional body style variant for the base Model 3 – a station wagon. This whisper has been flying around for years, never reaching a proper conclusion, but of course, when you have AI-assisted design software, it is easy to imagine all sorts of things.
As such, the channel's resident pixel master proposes a variety of slightly different designs for the hypothetical, unannounced Tesla Model 3 Wagon – some have Highland's cues more than others, while one variant even innovates with a full-width LED strip at the front. However, they all share the same characteristics – Tesla's sleek, aerodynamic design plus a wagon-like rear that would make it just as practical as a Model Y.
Alas, that begs the question: why would Tesla shoot itself in the leg and present a more affordable Model 3 Wagon with the same loading capabilities as a Model Y when the latter is doing so well in places like North America and Europe? For sure, that is not going to happen anytime soon. So, let us understand that a Tesla Model 3 Wagon, while interesting from a styling and practical point of view, doesn't make too much sense financially at this point in Tesla's long-term strategy.
Now, suppose that was the rumored, affordable Tesla Model 2, and it would be a compact hatchback rather than a mid-size station wagon. In that case, that's a whole different story – especially as the competition is heating up fast in the affordable EV sector. So, would you buy this if it were a Tesla Model 3 Wagon, or would you rather wait until the company brings that promised $25k entry-level EV to life?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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