---
title: "4K Video Provides Best Look Yet at the Tesla Model 3"
description: "This clip shows a release candidate Model 3 in beautiful high-resolution footage."
date: "2017-05-03"
modified: "2017-05-03"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9922/4k-video-provides-best-look-yet-at-the-tesla-model-3"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Tesla News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "model 3"
  - "sedan"
  - "Tesla"
---

# 4K Video Provides Best Look Yet at the Tesla Model 3

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With delivery dates for the Tesla Model 3 inching closer and closer, it appears Tesla has been doing an increasing amount of road-testing with the new entry-level electric car. The latest example: a new video on YouTube shows what appears to be the Model 3 in ultra-clear 4K quality.

The folks at [*Electrek*](<https://electrek.co/2017/05/03/tesla-model-3-new-4k-video/>) unearthed and posted a video Wednesday that shows a white pre-production [Model 3](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8605/tesla-model-3-will-be-more-affordable-less-high-tech-than-model-s-elon-musk-says>) test mule on the road. As the electric car news site notes, the car in the video appears to have some strange panel gaps on the rear-end—[not something too unusual for Teslas](<https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-x-spotted-with-huge-panel-gaps-is-tesla-testing-falcon-door-latch-failure-99130.html>)—but otherwise, it looks pretty standard for what we've seen with recent [Model 3](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8605/tesla-model-3-will-be-more-affordable-less-high-tech-than-model-s-elon-musk-says>) mule sightings. Seeing the car in white does give us a chance to better make out the likely-final version of the car's styling in better clarity...which is only further helped by the 4K resolution of the footage.

Musk said at a TED talk last Friday that Tesla will be able to make its goal of starting up [Model 3](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8732/tesla-model-3-wont-have-an-instrument-panel-elon-musk-confirms>) production in July. But it's unclear if the electric car company will be able to meet its required production number goals by the end of the year.

https://youtube.com/embed/8BwTdxyvQDY

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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