Tesla Model X 2017 Video Review

Name: Tesla Model X 2017 Video Review
Uploaded: 2018-09-24T16:37:45+10:00
Description: Tesla doesn't do things the way other carmakers do. Instead of trying the halfway-house of hybrid, they went straight to all electric, and the Model X is their latest model. We test the P90D version.

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EXPERT RATING

8.0

Peter Anderson

Contributing journalist

24 Mar 2017

14 min read

Peter Anderson

Contributing journalist

24 Mar 2017

14 min read

Tesla doesn't do things the way other carmakers do. In many ways, this is good. Instead of trying the halfway-house world of hybrid, they went straight to full electric after first buying a chassis from lightweight wunderkinds Lotus, and the company then took a deep breath and did its R&D in public.

The Roadster was a rolling lab, a bit like Ferrari's FXX-K program, except much cheaper, quieter, and you could drive anywhere you wanted within electric range. Then Tesla pretty much single-handedly turned the automotive world on its head with the Model S, triggering a huge amount of soul-searching and corporate direction-changing. Nobody had twigged Tesla is a battery company selling cars, so were unprepared for the wild-but-then-proven range claims.

MORE: Read the full Tesla Model X 2017 review

Now the Model X is here to, Tesla hopes, make us re-think how the large SUV should be. It had a troubled gestation and a ropey few first months on the road, mostly related to issues with wacky 'Falcon Wing' doors but also guilt-by-association with a few dumb owners doing themselves a mischief in Autopiloted cars of both Model S and X.

Read the full Tesla Model X P90D 2017 review.