---
title: "Tesla Model 3 Won’t Have an Instrument Panel, Elon Musk Confirms"
description: "No HUD or instrument binnacle here, folks. Just a big old center console with your speed on it."
date: "2017-03-28"
modified: "2017-03-29"
authors:
  - name: "Christian Gilbertsen"
    job_title: "Native Projects Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/christian-gilbertsen"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8732/tesla-model-3-wont-have-an-instrument-panel-elon-musk-confirms"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Tesla News"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "Displays"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "model 3"
  - "sedan"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Tesla Model 3 Won’t Have an Instrument Panel, Elon Musk Confirms

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In a series of [tweets](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/846668345998925826>) on Tuesday, Elon Musk, CEO and founder of Tesla, confirmed that the upcoming Model 3 will feature a single center display for all its data—no heads-up display, no standard instrument placement. Replacing the buttons, knobs, switches, and standard instrument binnacle that most cars feature, the single center display—which resembles a massive iPad—will be the car's central command system, showing road speed, energy usage, climate control settings, etc.

Replying to a series of questions surrounding what the interior displays of the entry-level Tesla will be like over Twitter, Musk said that the Model 3 will neither have a central gauge cluster nor a heads-up display. "You won't care," he wrote to a user pining for a centrally-mounted speedometer.

[Some photos](<https://i.imgur.com/PoiR05Y.jpg>) of the [Model 3's interior](<https://i.imgur.com/XnJKm6d.jpg>) have been circulating recently; in them, the center display strongly dominates the car's interior space, which may raise some eyebrows from automotive traditionalists. But given how prescient Musk has been about consumers' tastes, who knows? Centrally-mounted gauges may be soon be a thing of the past.

https://twitter.com/_/status/846668345998925826

https://twitter.com/_/status/846768171486855169

https://twitter.com/_/status/846768497904369664

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