Tesla lists the Model 3 Highland on its US website with Cybertruck's front bumper camera

Within the same "sports sedan for family, road trips, and commuting" writeup on its test drive scheduling website for the US, Tesla briefly featured the 2024 Model 3 Highland as available for a demo drive. While the imagery has subsequently been pulled, it comes as a tangential confirmation that the US release of the Model 3 Highland may be closer than thought.

The Highland has been filmed driving around California roads in the past few weeks, first with Chinese badging as a decoy on Fremont-made units, and lately without, but complete with US regulation headlights and a Fremont VIN. In addition, when trying to schedule a Model 3 test drive, the website lists them as unavailable even now, just like Apple's website goes down for update shortly before launching a new iPhone, for instance.

Interestingly enough, the Model 3 Highland scheduled for a US release seems to have the front bumper camera that was available on the first prototypes, as well as on promo imagery of the Giga Shanghai units. The Highland then launched without a bumper camera in both China or Europe.

In the US, however, the Tesla Model 3 Highland may sport a richer Hardware 4.0 kit, so a front bumper cam is not out of the question, even if on the Cybertruck it is only used for parking and off-road purposes, rather than FSD duties.

In any case, the Model 3 Highland release in the US seems imminent, and some privy Redditors may turn out correct that Tesla would launch it before this coming Sunday, rather than wait for its January 24 quarterly results announcement.

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