u/Inside-Conference170

Canada and US reached a "deal" tonight before the deadline of 50% tariffs set to take place midnight. The deal includes a lot of stuff, but I'm focusing on automotive (obviously).

I want to make it clear: the details of the deal are not yet confirmed and there is nothing confirming whether the deal actually changed automotive tariffs. Take it with a grain of salt. However, the reason I make this post is because a big part of the deal was the ask to reduce tariffs on vehicles going both ways. Canada wanted 15% tariffs on vehicles (reduced from the current 25%) and the US wanted vehicles to use parts built in the US. A "deal" being reached means it is highly likely that automotive tariff reduction was a part of it.

The following section of the post will assume that the tariffs on vehicles have been reduced to a percentage at which it makes logistical sense for Tesla to switch their operations to the US.

What does this mean for Tesla?

1. The switch of the Model Y Premium AWD and Standard RWD coming from Giga Berlin to coming from a US factory. Even with tariffs, it is logistically easier to get it from the US and it is cheaper car to use land than to ship overseas
2. Addition of more Model Y variants, likely Model Y Premium RWD. Other variants may be added depending on if it makes financial sense. The trims available in the states are: Model Y Standard RWD and AWD, Model Y Premium RWD and AWD, Model Y Performance, and Model Y L
3. Change in pricing. The current Model 3 and Model Y performance may or may not see a price reduction, the cybertruck will likely see a price reduction. Model Y Premium AWD may or may not see a reduction, as the current price is already cheaper as it is in the US.
4. Reduced wait times as they will be able to come from the US
5. The Model 3 will likely continue to come from China in hopes to use up the quota and hold of chinese brands from entering. It will eventually switch back to the US when the quota is used up and/or when it does not make logistical sense for Tesla to continue bringing the 3 from China.
6. Considering that both the 3 and Y will switch back to the US, it is possible that Tesla reserves the chinese market exclusively for bringing the Model Y L to Canada. It is already hard for Tesla to fulfill Model Y L orders in the US, so it doesn't make sense for Tesla to bring them from the US especially as they can choose to bring it from China.
7. If you currently have a Model Y on order and have a long time until your EDD, it is possible that your car may come from the US instead of Germany. If your EDD is in late this year, it is possible that you will get the car earlier.

I again want to make it clear: the details of the deal are not yet confirmed and there is nothing confirming whether the deal actually changed automotive tariffs. All the points listed above are a hypothesis and not actually confirmed. Do not base your decision off of this post.

Obviously FSD and smart summon are WONDERFUL features and arguably the best, but I’m going to be focusing on non subscription features for this, since not everyone will subscribe to it.

Feature list (most of these is not available in other EVs within the same price range - **42k cad+ tax**, some of these may be available, feel free to correct me), best and most important feature is at the end:

**Sentry Mode (FAVOURITE feature) -** records your entire surroundings while you're parked and it records if it detects activity, very helpful for door dings, someone tries to mess with the car, etc

Auto dimming rearview and side mirrors

Side mirrors automatically tilt downward in reverse

Auto folding side mirrors when you leave the car

Memory preferences (not just seats and steering but all settings which you set on the screen)

Sideview cameras (shown upon activating turn signal)

Car physically doesn’t let you open the door if someone’s in your blindspot, you can manually override by pressing twice (has saved me 2-3 times)

Power adjustable steering wheel (adjust from screen rather than mechanical steering on most other vehicles)

Auto shift (if you press brake/accelerator then the car detects if you wanna go in D or R and then shifts automatically)

Footwell lights (lights in all four door cupholders, leg areas, and in both center consoles)
Rear seat touchscreen

9 speaker ABSOLUTELY FIRE speaker system, engineered by B&O

Inbuilt Dascham (saves if it detects an event like collision or emergency brake, saves upon honk, easily accessible, etc)

8 camera system, 4 of them constantly visible while driving with a steering button and all 8 of them visible by going into service mode while driving

Dedicated front bumper camera (extremely useful for parking to judge how far your curb is especially in unusual spots)

Tesla vision (car maps out all your environments, not useful most of time but becomes very very useful while reverse parking)

Super duper accurate GPS (in previous cars while I used the GPS, it takes a few seconds or more to even get on the correct orientation, hence showing an incorrect route. In Tesla, the GPS is always super accurate, no need to wait for it to align and it is always on the correct orientation)

High-Fidelity Proximity Alerts & Dynamic STOP Vector Triggers (This feature processes all cameras simultaneously to wrap a live, color-coded 3D boundary mesh around nearby obstacles, even if you are parking front-first, reversing, or parallel parking—and flashes a bold "STOP" command on the screen with a chime, nothing like the normal reverse camera guide lines found on other cars)

Front bumper camera washer (tho i wish it was also available for the reverse camera)

Dual wireless charging pads (speed is slow, heard they’ll be upgrading to 50W cooled wireless chargers on later cars)

Ventilated + Heated front seats, and heated rear seats

Matrix headlights, automatically turns off individual pixels of the headlights to keep high beams but also not blind other driver

In car browser and theatre (youtube, movies, etc – may not be useful for you)

Leather seats (way easier to clean, maybe available on some other EVs within the price range, im not sure)

An actually good car app (control climate, lock car, see exact location while someone else is driving, honk, flash lights, etc)

Plug and charge (no third party apps at superchargers, no payment hassle, just go, plug in and plug out)

Predictive navigation (if you go to work around lets say 8:30 everyday, the car automatically has your work in nav, and then has home preloaded when you leave work. If you sync your calendar, the car has your appointment/event locations preloaded in the map)

Schedule-Based Cabin Pre-Conditioning (for example, i can set the car to have ac on 18 degree celsius every weekday at 8:30 am, prolly avail on other EVs but not as integrated as Tesla)

Actually Smart Summon (car comes to the front entrance of the store, very very useful in rain, wish the distance radius was increased though)

Walk Away Lock + Phone Key (no unlocking, no pressing a button to start the car, just get into the car and drive)

Changing door lock sound (gimmicky feature but very fun regardless especially if you change it to something corny)

Play your music outside of the car while parked (very good if you want to party with friends or something or just have a fun time in fresh air)

Most important feature:
 
**Fart** (can get the car to fart on the outside, can make someone inside the car fart, can make it so the turn signal click sound is replaced by  fart sound, and there are a variety of different fart styles (such as ludicrous fart, not a fart, short shorts ripper, boring fart, and more)

Features I don't like:

Glovebox is way too tiny, it fits barely anything, center console storage makes up for it but I don't know why it's so tiny.

Overhead grab handles (the ones your grandparents hold on to), don't know why they aren't there

Obviously FSD and smart summon are WONDERFUL features and arguably the best, but I’m going to be focusing on non subscription features for this, since not everyone will subscribe to it.

Feature list (most of these is not available in other EVs within the same price range - 42k + tax, some of these may be available, feel free to correct me), best and most important feature is at the end:

Sentry Mode (FAVOURITE feature) - records your entire surroundings while you're parked and it records if it detects activity, very helpful for door dings, someone tries to mess with the car, etc

Auto dimming rearview and side mirrors

Side mirrors automatically tilt downward in reverse

Auto folding side mirrors when you leave the car

Memory preferences (not just seats and steering but all settings which you set on the screen)

Sideview cameras (shown upon activating turn signal)

Car physically doesn’t let you open the door if someone’s in your blindspot, you can manually override by pressing twice (has saved me 2-3 times)

Power adjustable steering wheel (adjust from screen rather than mechanical steering on most other vehicles)

Auto shift (if you press brake/accelerator then the car detects if you wanna go in D or R and then shifts automatically)

Footwell lights (lights in all four door cupholders, leg areas, and in both center consoles)
Rear seat touchscreen

9 speaker ABSOLUTELY FIRE speaker system, engineered by B&O

Inbuilt Dascham (saves if it detects an event like collision or emergency brake, saves upon honk, easily accessible, etc)

8 camera system, 4 of them constantly visible while driving with a steering button and all 8 of them visible by going into service mode while driving

Dedicated front bumper camera (extremely useful for parking to judge how far your curb is especially in unusual spots)

Tesla vision (car maps out all your environments, not useful most of time but becomes very very useful while reverse parking)

Super duper accurate GPS (in previous cars while I used the GPS, it takes a few seconds or more to even get on the correct orientation, hence showing an incorrect route. In Tesla, the GPS is always super accurate, no need to wait for it to align and it is always on the correct orientation)

High-Fidelity Proximity Alerts & Dynamic STOP Vector Triggers (This feature processes all cameras simultaneously to wrap a live, color-coded 3D boundary mesh around nearby obstacles, even if you are parking front-first, reversing, or parallel parking—and flashes a bold "STOP" command on the screen with a chime, nothing like the normal reverse camera guide lines found on other cars)

Front bumper camera washer (tho i wish it was also available for the reverse camera)

Dual wireless charging pads (speed is slow, heard they’ll be upgrading to 50W cooled wireless chargers on later cars)

Ventilated + Heated front seats, and heated rear seats

Matrix headlights, automatically turns off individual pixels of the headlights to keep high beams but also not blind other driver

In car browser and theatre (youtube, movies, etc – may not be useful for you)

Leather seats (way easier to clean, maybe available on some other EVs within the price range, im not sure)

An actually good car app (control climate, lock car, see exact location while someone else is driving, honk, flash lights, etc)

Plug and charge (no third party apps at superchargers, no payment hassle, just go, plug in and plug out)

Predictive navigation (if you go to work around lets say 8:30 everyday, the car automatically has your work in nav, and then has home preloaded when you leave work. If you sync your calendar, the car has your appointment/event locations preloaded in the map)

Schedule-Based Cabin Pre-Conditioning (for example, i can set the car to have ac on 18 degree celsius every weekday at 8:30 am, prolly avail on other EVs but not as integrated as Tesla)

Actually Smart Summon (car comes to the front entrance of the store, very very useful in rain, wish the distance radius was increased though)

Walk Away Lock + Phone Key (no unlocking, no pressing a button to start the car, just get into the car and drive)

Changing door lock sound (gimmicky feature but very fun regardless especially if you change it to something corny)

Play your music outside of the car while parked (very good if you want to party with friends or something or just have a fun time in fresh air)

Most important feature:
 
Fart (can get the car to fart on the outside, can make someone inside the car fart, can make it so the turn signal click sound is replaced by  fart sound, and there are a variety of different fart styles (such as ludicrous fart, not a fart, short shorts ripper, boring fart, and more)

Features I don't like:

Glovebox is way too tiny, it fits barely anything, center console storage makes up for it but I don't know why it's so tiny.

Overhead grab handles (the ones your grandparents hold on to), don't know why they aren't there

Obviously FSD and smart summon are WONDERFUL features and arguably the best, but I’m going to be focusing on non subscription features for this, since not everyone will subscribe to it.

Feature list (most of these is not available in other EVs within the same price range - 42k + tax, some of these may be available, feel free to correct me), best and most important feature is at the end:

Sentry Mode (FAVOURITE feature) - records your entire surroundings while you're parked and it records if it detects activity, very helpful for door dings, someone tries to mess with the car, etc

Auto dimming rearview and side mirrors

Side mirrors automatically tilt downward in reverse

Auto folding side mirrors when you leave the car

Memory preferences (not just seats and steering but all settings which you set on the screen)

Sideview cameras (shown upon activating turn signal)

Car physically doesn’t let you open the door if someone’s in your blindspot, you can manually override by pressing twice (has saved me 2-3 times)

Power adjustable steering wheel (adjust from screen rather than mechanical steering on most other vehicles)

Auto shift (if you press brake/accelerator then the car detects if you wanna go in D or R and then shifts automatically)

Footwell lights (lights in all four door cupholders, leg areas, and in both center consoles)
Rear seat touchscreen

9 speaker ABSOLUTELY FIRE speaker system, engineered by B&O

Inbuilt Dascham (saves if it detects an event like collision or emergency brake, saves upon honk, easily accessible, etc)

8 camera system, 4 of them constantly visible while driving with a steering button and all 8 of them visible by going into service mode while driving

Dedicated front bumper camera (extremely useful for parking to judge how far your curb is especially in unusual spots)

Tesla vision (car maps out all your environments, not useful most of time but becomes very very useful while reverse parking)

Super duper accurate GPS (in previous cars while I used the GPS, it takes a few seconds or more to even get on the correct orientation, hence showing an incorrect route. In Tesla, the GPS is always super accurate, no need to wait for it to align and it is always on the correct orientation)

High-Fidelity Proximity Alerts & Dynamic STOP Vector Triggers (This feature processes all cameras simultaneously to wrap a live, color-coded 3D boundary mesh around nearby obstacles, even if you are parking front-first, reversing, or parallel parking—and flashes a bold "STOP" command on the screen with a chime, nothing like the normal reverse camera guide lines found on other cars)

Front bumper camera washer (tho i wish it was also available for the reverse camera)

Dual wireless charging pads (speed is slow, heard they’ll be upgrading to 50W cooled wireless chargers on later cars)

Ventilated + Heated front seats, and heated rear seats

Matrix headlights, automatically turns off individual pixels of the headlights to keep high beams but also not blind other driver

In car browser and theatre (youtube, movies, etc – may not be useful for you)

Leather seats (way easier to clean, maybe available on some other EVs within the price range, im not sure)

An actually good car app (control climate, lock car, see exact location while someone else is driving, honk, flash lights, etc)

Plug and charge (no third party apps at superchargers, no payment hassle, just go, plug in and plug out)

Predictive navigation (if you go to work around lets say 8:30 everyday, the car automatically has your work in nav, and then has home preloaded when you leave work. If you sync your calendar, the car has your appointment/event locations preloaded in the map)

Schedule-Based Cabin Pre-Conditioning (for example, i can set the car to have ac on 18 degree celsius every weekday at 8:30 am, prolly avail on other EVs but not as integrated as Tesla)

Actually Smart Summon (car comes to the front entrance of the store, very very useful in rain, wish the distance radius was increased though)

Walk Away Lock + Phone Key (no unlocking, no pressing a button to start the car, just get into the car and drive)

Changing door lock sound (gimmicky feature but very fun regardless especially if you change it to something corny)

Play your music outside of the car while parked (very good if you want to party with friends or something or just have a fun time in fresh air)

Most important feature:
 
>!Fart (can get the car to fart on the outside, can make someone inside the car fart, can make it so the turn signal click sound is replaced by  fart sound, and there are a variety of different fart styles (such as ludicrous fart, not a fart, short shorts ripper, boring fart, and more)!<

Features I don't like:

Glovebox is way too tiny, it fits barely anything, center console storage makes up for it but I don't know why it's so tiny.

Overhead grab handles (the ones your grandparents hold on to), don't know why they aren't there