Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla's Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around. According to the Teslarati blog, new flyover footage from an account that calls itself "Met God in Wildnerness" — which along with frequent Fremont flyovers also publishes what appear to be Christian missives in Chinese — there's a good chance that the disguised vehicle could be a prototype for Tesla's purported affordable model. "A disguised Tesla car testing on test track," the video's caption reads. "We could be seeing the new low cost model." Though the blog describes the […]

Jun 1, 2025 - 19:10

Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla's Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around it.

As spotted by Teslarati, new flyover footage from an account that calls itself "Met God in Wildnerness" — which along with frequent Fremont flyovers also publishes what appear to be Christian missives in Chinese — there's a good chance that the disguised vehicle could be a prototype for Tesla's purported affordable model.

"A disguised Tesla car testing on test track," the video's caption reads. "We could be seeing the new low cost model."

Though the blog describes the vehicle as resembling a "compact Model Y," the black-and-white machine looks to our eyes like an elongated Volkswagen Beetle. In the video, it's seen stopping and going on the track, which is located off to the side of Tesla's manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, followed by a disguised Cybertruck.

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