Full-size Tesla SUV teased to fill its 3-row family model gap

Elon Musk is teasing a mysterious new project that Tesla is apparently already working on that aims to fill the most glaring gap in its portfolio, the lack of a full-size family SUV.

While Tesla did launch the slightly longer and taller Model Y L in China in 2025 and is bringing it to several other markets, the US is not one of them, as the American notion of big 3-row SUVs is much different.

Now that gas prices are way up because of the geopolitical tensions and will seemingly stay that way for a while, a full-size Tesla SUV model could be just what the doctor ordered to revive sales in the US.

When people pleaded for a true Tesla family vehicle, be it a minivan, Elon responded that Tesla has something even better in the works. As urges to craft a full-size 3-row SUV started piling up, Musk doubled down by indicating their wish had been duly noted and added that Tesla would be solving this with an upcoming mystery vehicle.

Tesla Cyber SUV launch

Since he didn't seem to mean either the Robovan or the Model Y L, what Musk might have referred to in his 3-row SUV teaser could very well be a Tesla Cyber SUV.

This is what its head of design Franz von Holzhausen hinted at during an impromptu interview on the Bloomberg Hot Pursuit podcast. Moreover, multiple Tesla Cyber SUVs in various prototype stages featured prominently as scale models on the shelves of Tesla's design studio in the company's last Sustainable Abundance video.

There, Tesla takes the Cybertruck's edgy stainless steel design and extends the cabin all along the truck bed to create a rather edgy 3-row family SUV built on the Cybertruck's full-size chassis that is 18.6 feet (5,683 mm) long. This is what Elon Musk might be referring to when he says that Tesla has something "way cooler" than a minivan in mind as its future 3-row family hauler.