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2016 Tesla Model X: In Pictures

  • <p>Tesla will only offer the Model X as an all-wheel-drive model with a 90-kWh battery pack for now. Prices start above $100,000</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Front View

    Tesla will only offer the Model X as an all-wheel-drive model with a 90-kWh battery pack for now. Prices start above $100,000

  • <p>Designed with a 0.23 coefficent of drag, the Model X can travel up to 257 miles on a single charge. While Tesla says a roof rack will be available, and will somehow work with the “falcon” doors, the company will urge customers not to use one due to how much range it would burn through higher drag.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Side View

    Designed with a 0.23 coefficent of drag, the Model X can travel up to 257 miles on a single charge. While Tesla says a roof rack will be available, and will somehow work with the “falcon” doors, the company will urge customers not to use one due to how much range it would burn through higher drag.

  • <p>The Model X can tow up to 5,000 lbs. with a Class 3 hitch, although such towing also eats range at a great pace.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Rear View

    The Model X can tow up to 5,000 lbs. with a Class 3 hitch, although such towing also eats range at a great pace.

  • <p>Designed to make interior access easy, the falcon doors power open and closed. Tesla says the design does not make the car less safe; it expects five-star ratings for side impact, and says the doors can open in the event of a rollover.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Falcon Door Front View

    Designed to make interior access easy, the falcon doors power open and closed. Tesla says the design does not make the car less safe; it expects five-star ratings for side impact, and says the doors can open in the event of a rollover.

  • <p>The rear “monopost” seats create a flat floor for storage; while the third row folds down, the second row only folds foward.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Falcon Door Side View

    The rear “monopost” seats create a flat floor for storage; while the third row folds down, the second row only folds foward.

  • <p>A quick-release hitch was designed for hauling larger items.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Rear Rack

    A quick-release hitch was designed for hauling larger items.

  • <p>As with the Model S, the X has almost no buttons, with most functions driven through the 17-inch touchscreen.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Interior

    As with the Model S, the X has almost no buttons, with most functions driven through the 17-inch touchscreen.

  • <p>The Model X will come in six- and seven-seat versions; with designers saying the car can handle the occasional load of 2x4s.</p>
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    2016 Tesla Model X Seats closeup

    The Model X will come in six- and seven-seat versions; with designers saying the car can handle the occasional load of 2x4s.

<p>Tesla will only offer the Model X as an all-wheel-drive model with a 90-kWh battery pack for now. Prices start above $100,000</p>
<p>Designed with a 0.23 coefficent of drag, the Model X can travel up to 257 miles on a single charge. While Tesla says a roof rack will be available, and will somehow work with the “falcon” doors, the company will urge customers not to use one due to how much range it would burn through higher drag.</p>
<p>The Model X can tow up to 5,000 lbs. with a Class 3 hitch, although such towing also eats range at a great pace.</p>
<p>Designed to make interior access easy, the falcon doors power open and closed. Tesla says the design does not make the car less safe; it expects five-star ratings for side impact, and says the doors can open in the event of a rollover.</p>
<p>The rear “monopost” seats create a flat floor for storage; while the third row folds down, the second row only folds foward.</p>
<p>A quick-release hitch was designed for hauling larger items.</p>
<p>As with the Model S, the X has almost no buttons, with most functions driven through the 17-inch touchscreen.</p>
<p>The Model X will come in six- and seven-seat versions; with designers saying the car can handle the occasional load of 2x4s.</p>
Justin Hyde
·Managing Editor

To a crowd of a few thousand fans Tuesday night, Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Model X, the most advanced—and in Musk’s own words, complicated—car the electric-vehicle startup has ever attempted. From its various safety technologies to its “monopost” seats, the Model X takes the typical family hauler and turns it high tech; if Tony Stark had kids, this is what he’d use to haul them to school.