The facelifted Tesla Mannequin 3, often known as “Venture Highland,” made fairly a splash when it debuted late final month, placing an finish to all of the hypothesis, spy photographs, and rumors surrounding probably the most reasonably priced EV made by the Austin-based model.

A number of the headlining comfort-related options of the brand new Mannequin 3 are the improved dampers and the greenhouse that’s now made up solely of acoustic glass, versus the non-facelift automobile that solely will get noise-repelling glass on the windshield and entrance home windows.

One other factor which may have gone underneath the radar for some individuals who need to purchase a brand new Mannequin 3 (so long as they reside in a market the place Tesla is promoting it – the US excluded, at the least for now) is that the automobile has been developed largely in China by the corporate’s Shanghai engineering group.

Discussing all these options and extra is a brand new video posted on Tesla’s official Weibo account (which later obtained reposted on X by @xiaoteshushu – embedded beneath), the place Lars Moravy, the Elon Musk-led producer’s Vice President of Automobile Engineering, talks about how the largest goal of the group was to make drivers happier.

On the 17-second mark, the black prototype proven within the video is seen reaching its China-rated high pace of 200 kilometers per hour (124.2 miles per hour). With this being mentioned, each the rear-wheel drive and Lengthy Vary variations are listed as having a 201 kph (124.8 mph) high pace in European markets, whereas the 0 to 100 kph (0-62 mph) dash occasions are the identical as on the Chinese language-bound EV: 6.1 seconds for the RWD and 4.4 s for the Lengthy Vary.

Revealed six years after the unique Mannequin 3, the so-called “Venture Highland” EV is already being constructed at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory with a redesigned exterior and an improved inside that options ambient lighting, a brand new infotainment touchscreen for rear passengers, and an improved sound system that may blast music from 17 audio system – three greater than earlier than – within the case of the Lengthy Vary.