{"id":20397,"date":"2025-08-24T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20397\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:59:15","slug":"tesla-model-y-long-range-rwd-just-may-be-the-vehicle-that-tesla-devotees-have-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20397\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model Y Long Range RWD just may be the vehicle that Tesla devotees have been waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis update isn\u2019t radical, but it\u2019s refined in all the right ways\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test-drives the Tesla Model Y Long Range RWD. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/43bb15d5-6393-4c59-b98a-a95af8b0e37a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test-drives the Tesla Model Y Long Range RWD. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ask any Tesla devotee about the company\u2019s recent dip in car sales and they\u2019ll offer a familiar explanation: it wasn\u2019t waning demand, negative headlines or CEO Elon Musk\u2019s increasingly polarising public image, nor did it have anything to do with the frankly staggering revelations in the \u2018Tesla Files\u2019. Instead, they\u2019ll say, customers were simply waiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Waiting, specifically, for this car. The newly updated Tesla Model Y, the world\u2019s bestselling vehicle in 2023 and our test car this week. Built at Tesla\u2019s expanded Berlin Gigafactory and featuring a series of refinements, both inside and out, the refreshed Model Y is Tesla\u2019s attempt to maintain its lead in an increasingly competitive electric vehicle market. So was it worth the wait?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This update isn\u2019t radical, but it\u2019s refined in all the right ways Geraldine Herbert test-drives the Tesla Model&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,4942,19,17,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-20397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-geraldine-herbert","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}