Tesla Exec Confirms Midsized Crossover Companion For Model 3 Sedan

Tesla’s coming Model X won’t be the all-electric brand’s only SUV, the company’s Chief Technical Officer has revealed.

Reports of a smaller SUV model in the Tesla family reach back to at least 2012, but it wasn’t until last year’s announcement of the new midsized Model 3 sedan that the crystal ball began to clear.

This week, Tesla executive JB Straubel has revealed to press at the EIA Energy Conference in Washington DC that the Model 3 will share its platform - and possibly its name - with a new midsized SUV.

Together with the larger Model X SUV and the Model S sedan, the two new models will see Tesla’s line-up to grow to at least four cars.

Details on the second new SUV are still to come, but, with the Model X due in the next few months and the Model 3 sedan to debut next year, we might expect to see a ‘Model 3 X’ appear closer to 2018.