2026 Model Y Juniper 17 New Features Compare to Old Model Y / Watch This Before Order New Model Y!

Hey guys, Paul here. Welcome back to the channel. So couple days ago, I just picked up this brand new 2026 Tesla Model Y or codename Model Y Juniper. And this is my 2023 Tesla Model Y. Both cars are long range and all wheel drive. So in today's video, I'll compare the features and functionality between the two cars. I'll show you all the upgrades from the older car to the new cars. First, I know there are lists of comparison upgrade on the website. I have the list here, but a lot of time, it's hard to just reading the list on the website and you can't really imagine what it looks like compared between the two. And if it's worth it, if you already have the older model to upgrade to the new one, or if you're still considering to get a Model Y, either get a new Model Y, which is a little bit more expensive or the older Model Y, which Tesla offering really, really good deal on their website and inventory right now. So today I will go through all the list of upgrades from the old car to the new car and we'll see at the end if it's worth upgrading or worth paying more for the new Tesla Model Y. Now let's go. So these are the lists of the comparisons between the two cars. There are a few things that it's not listing on here, but I'll go through with all the stuff that both listing and not listing. We'll just start from what listing on here first. So first, first row, power reply, heated and ventilated. So the older Model Y has all of this, but ventilated seats. As you can see, the new Model Y, let me show you real quick. So the new Model Y seat has perforated right in the middle of the seat throughout front and rear, but only the front two that has ventilated function, which means it can blow out the cool air in the summer, or if you live in a hotter, high temperature climate. So you can adjust it right here, as soon as you press, then you have an option heat or cool. And of course the cool seat, you can also adjust how much you want the air to cool. I just turn on right now, as you can hear the climate, the whole climate's off as you can see, but it still can turn on the cool part of it. So I can feel the air is coming out from the middle perforated part of the seat. Really, really nice. So this is a really, really nice upgrade compared to the older Model Y. As you can see, the older Model Y doesn't have the perforated, in the middle part of it because it only has heated function on the seat. As you can see, if I try to control the seat, press one, it doesn't have any other function, but control the level of the heat on the heated function. And the second on the list here is the second row seat. So this is the huge convenience compared to the older model because the older model only have power for rear seat, but the newer model has power fold and unfold, and it also has power adjustable rear seat. So the rear passenger can adjust the seat themselves with the button and the display. Let me show you. This is the new Model Y, you can fold the seats with buttons here. So two buttons here, press one and another one to fold both seats in the back, as you can see. And if the front passenger seat or front driver seat is too far backward, it will move itself when you unfold or fold the seat. So if I want to unfold the seat, as you can see, the driver seat is too far backward, press, it adjusts the front driver seat, move up, and then it move back to the position that I was in, which is really, really cool. It does to both seats, left and right, power unfold. So not only you can power unfold the rear seat, you can power adjust the rear seat too. Before I show you power adjusting on the newer Model Y, let me show you the power folding on the older Model Y first. As you can see, the front passenger, I'm moving backward, maybe too far, let me try. So if you try to fold that with the button, okay, so it's passed. But if it's way too far, I can power unfold the other seat too, this way, as you can see, it just fold right down. But you can't power unfold the seat. The seat, it's a little heavy, you have to manually unfold it, and there's no button to adjust the back seat, you can adjust by this button right here to go a little further back, as you can see, there. So if the front seat is too far back, let me adjust it far back, so you can see, when you try to unfold the back seat with the front seat too further back, then it will stop. And then you have to walk, of course, and adjust the front seat in order for the back seat to be able to fold down flat. So that's, it's a huge convenience on the new Model Y compared to the older one. Let me show you the power adjustable rear seat function. There are two different ways to adjust your rear seat, so there's the button on the bottom right here, let me show you, you can see here, so you can adjust with the button, you can see, or fold, if you press and hold, it will fold all the way down. Press and hold again, it will fold all the way up, so it does both functions, but if you just press, and then, as you can see, you can adjust different, all the way, I think this is all the way back, you press one more time, and you can adjust different level, there you go. And you can do the same thing on the other side with the button, or you can adjust the seat with the rear display here. So on the rear display, the seat symbol there, and you can adjust the seat from here. So as I press, before this, show you, so I use the screen to adjust, you can see, and so all by the screen. So it's so much easier to use the screen, I think, to adjust than the button, or you can also use the screen to fold it, so it's labeled fold, right here, and then it'll fold the whole seat down. Or you can unfold and stop anywhere you want, there you go, unfold. So you can do everything through the display, of course, on both sides of the seat. Adjust however, how much ever you want to move up and down, pretty cool. So these are three, actually, these are three different functions, oh, I call it two. So two extra functions for the rear seat adjustment and folding. First, cool seat, and then second, powerful and unfold, and then third, of course, power adjustable with the button and the display in the rear. Since we are in the back, in the cargo space of the new Model Y, another good extra function that it offers, better than the current Model Y or older Model Y, is the storage space for the privacy cover. This is the privacy cover for the new Model Y, you can fold it into, it has tri-fold, so you can fold it down this way, after you fold down, you can store it under the cover right here. The current one don't have, let me unfold it for you, because the older Model Y doesn't have this little space, it's just a little cutout for you to put the cover down here, and you can't really store it anywhere for the older Model Y. I don't even know where it is right now, because I don't usually use it, I just put it away. So when you want to use it, just open it up, take it out, close it down, and then insert it in, there you go, and that's it, it's really easy. And now, if you want to put something bigger, taller, and you need a space, just take it out, and then fold it down, open it up, and put it back in the bottom, right here, there you go. It's really easy to store, really easy to fold, and put it back in. This is really simple modification in the car, but it's really, really useful. Compared to the older Model Y, sorry I have a lot of stuff, we're going back skiing, that's why the car is really dirty, it doesn't have anything back here. You can put stuff in here, but it's not big enough, because it doesn't have the cut on the side to store the privacy cover, so that's a huge difference in terms of functionality in the back here. And the next upgrade is 8 inch second row touchscreen display, which is this one right here. As you can see here, this is the latest version, similar to the new Tesla Model 3 Highland 2, they probably use the same unit, but this one have extra function, because as I mentioned before, you can adjust the rear seat by yourself now, and you can also now adjust the front passenger seat. So if you need more leg room in the back here, and no one sitting in the front, you can adjust from the rear display here, and you can also adjust the air vent, you can turn on, turn off the AC from the back here, you can adjust wherever you want the air flow to direct to. Turn off, so it's not that loud. And the next function on the rear seat is music, so you have basic control, just pause and play and skip. And the biggest here is the entertainment, so you can watch Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Twitch in the back here. Plus you can connect the headphone, so you can add Bluetooth device, add new device, so you can add Bluetooth headphones to the back display, to the rear display, so the rear passenger can watch the show, the movie, and does not disturb the rest of the passenger in the front, or the driver. And last but not least for the rear display function, are the games. So the rear passenger, your kids, can play games while you're driving, actually both, watch anything, or play games while you're on the road trip, which is really awesome. They can either use the touchscreen, or they can connect to the game controller like this via Bluetooth connection, which is really, really, really cool. Compared to the current or older Model Y, in the back seat of the current Model Y, you can manually adjust the rear vent, you cannot turn on or off, and you have two USB-C ports, and that's it. That's a huge upgrade in my opinion, compared to the current Model Y. I forgot to mention, you also still have two USB-C ports to charge your devices in the back from the rear display, just underneath the rear display. And the next upgrade is the Ride Comfort, or second generation suspension. It is something that I can't really visually show you, but you actually have to go test drive it to feel it, to understand, and to actually compare by yourself. But from here, I can't really tell the difference between the two suspensions. But when I drove the car, there was a huge difference between the two, especially when I tried to drive both cars, or this car, on the rough surface street, with a lot of potholes, this one takes and absorbs more of the rough surface, much better than the older Model Y, for sure. And the next one I think I could show you is the second generation noise reduction hardware. So let me show you the older Model Y first. So let's start from the back, the trunk, the back right here, we're going to compare side by side. Let me open the rear trunk, on the new Model Y too, sorry it's really, really windy today. So as you can see here, the older Model Y, so this is the older Model Y, has this plastic piece all the way to over there, right? This whole thing is plastic, and same thing on this side, this whole thing is plastic. It's a fussy, and material, like a carpet material down here, also plastic down here, and also plastic up here. So this whole piece is plastic, except the one in the middle here, it's carpet material, with everything plastic right here. So this is only the rear end of the car. Let me show you the newer Model Y, 2026 Model Y. So the 2026 Model Y has this, like the headliner material on this part that has the plastic on the inside. So it has this cover, so this will help with noise reduction on the interior wires, and I can only visually show you this, but when I drove the car, and I test drive the car, and even I drove, after I pick up the car, it's huge difference when I turn off the music in the car and just drive, it's a lot more quieter than the older Model Y. So this whole piece, as you can see, this one right here too, it has the cushion, or the headliner material, covered, same thing on this side. See, it's no longer plastic, and it has like a cushion between the surface too, so it's not just wrapped with a cloth, it has a cushion inside to cancel the noise out. Same thing on that side. So it's rarely any just plastic surface at all in the back here, you can see, fussy material down here, same thing here, also here used to be plastic, now it's no longer plastic, and let's check out up here. So up here also a fussy material, like a cloth, like a carpet material, I would say. It's good and bad, right? It's reduced the noise for your car, the bad thing about this, it's just hard to clean, this material, not this, this one is fine. So this one, all the way down here, even down here, so it has the headliner material all the way down, no plastic surface at all, so that's why it helps a lot with noise reduction. It's just this surface, it's just really hard to clean when you get something dirty like this, you see, it's just harder to clean, but it helps with the noise reduction, really really cool. I have, I think the aftermarket might have something to cover this, but you still have that noise reduction capability, but you cover it with the plastic, so it's easy to clean I guess, and let's go on the inside, you can see the inside seat pillar, it's plastic on both sides, but everything else, it's not. So kind of plastic down here, let me go check the new Model Y. On the new Model Y, as you can see, the material is no longer plastic, same thing, it's the similar material to this, but it's just black color, so that's why it says headliner material on this piece right here, and I didn't realize the door panels are entirely different. So this is the new Model Y door panel, so it has the, like a vegan leather with the cushion on the inside of the door, so it has a little bit of cushion underneath, so it's not just the vegan leather just wrapped on it, so that's why it helps with the noise reduction too, and I think same in the front door, there you go, and the front door is the same, so it has the vegan leather wrapped around the whole surface of the bottom part of the door everywhere, so I don't see a single plastic around in the newer Model Y at all, and the speaker here, it's the front door, front driver door, so you can see this whole thing is plastic, so the material is a lot better, so it only has the vegan leather wrapped around the top part, and the handle, and the rest, from here on, here on, down here, all just plastic, so that's why the noise reduction on the Model Y, the new Model Y is much, much better, same here, it's plastic down here, down here too, on this side too, all plastic, on this panel, down here on the door seals, in the front, but the door seals on the new Model Y, it's no longer plastic, it's a plastic material, like a carpet material as you can see, and even this panel right here, I didn't realize, this B-pillar lower panel is actually a vegan leather wrap on the inside, with the cushion, I can tell there's a cushion in between it, so it helps a lot with noise reduction as well, they're really trying to get a huge improvement between the older and the new Model Y, so if I didn't do this video, I wouldn't know about small little details like this, so I'm glad I'm doing this, I can share all the details in the car, so you know, a lot of you can see the difference between the two, and all the upgrades on the new Model Y, let's go to the next one, so now we know the noise reduction, why it's so much quieter in the new Model Y, than the older Model Y, and the next upgrade on the list here, are the cameras, so the current Model Y has, I believe seven cameras, right, so let's start from the back here, so we have one in the back, just right there, one, and we have two, three, four, five, and two in the front, six, seven, but the new Model Y has everything, just like the new one, the old one, the rear, it's a little higher right there, and then one on the pillar, one on the fender, and then two up top on the windshield, but it has the extra one, really, really useful one, this one, right in the front, not only it helps with the visibility when you park, it also enhances the autopilot and FSD in your car too, and you can actually view in the front, I mean in the main display, so on the main display to access the camera is really easy, on your steering wheel, just press this button, as you can see, now you have front, you have left and right, and then just swipe down, then you have rear, so you can view the front camera, or it has a cleaning spray in the front, which you can do it manually, let me try, well, as you can see, it just spray, let me try again, and then I'll put the camera in the front, now let me try to clean it from the inside, and see, it works really great, and now it's so much better for FSD and autopilot, and also when you park somewhere with the high curb, so you don't actually curb your front bumper, you can see exactly where your front end is, I wish they have that spray cleaning function for the rear camera, because that's happened a lot for my old model, why I have to clean it sometimes when we go through snow or rain, and it's just, you know, a lot of dirt stuck in front of the camera, and it just uses the wiper fluid to clean up the camera, because the rear camera, it doesn't have any cleaning function, and the next upgrade on the new motorized are all the speakers, so the current long range motorized, which is my car, has 13 speakers and one subwoofer, but the new motorized has 15 speakers and one subwoofer, so they added two more speakers, which are located on the door panels right here, so you can see really clearly, it's on the door panels here, there, and there, it's probably right here, not here, right over here, because when you close the door, this is only you can see on the speakers, the sound, I mean the sound system in Tesla are incredible, much better than a lot of cars, like I'm talking about standard car speakers that came with the car, or the sound system that came with the car, much better than BMW that I used to have before, now they even make it better on the sound system of the new Model Y, and the next upgrade is the second generation hardware for the connectivity, I think both Wi-Fi and 5G in the car, so the older Model Y has a 4G, I believe, and a Wi-Fi, this one has a better, I think it's sitting right here, somewhere underneath the headliner, so the connectivity and the hardware itself, actually much faster than the older Model Y, something I can't really show you physically, and the next one is the power open trunk, so older Model Y has the regular power open trunk, which you know, with a touch of the button, but the new Model Y has hand-free power open on approach, so let me show you what's in the car first, you can adjust in here, go to I believe locks, and then you go down here, as you can see here, you can turn on and off hand-free trunk, let me press, so stand still behind your vehicle trunk with the phone key, and then it will charm like, I think five times, and then open itself, and you can, let's say if you park in the garage at your house, and it's too low to open, you can press and select exclude home, so I have my phone key in my pocket, I'm approaching the car, standing in the back, as you can see, it's charming, there you go, and it just opens by itself, so even have a lot of stuff from Gocery, from Costco, and I have no hands to open, I just stand there, and it just open for me, and of course, you still have regular power tailgate in the back, for the Auto Model Y, you have a power trunk, open and close, but you do not have an auto close and open on the Auto Model Y, and the next upgrade features in the interior, is this really cool ambient light in the car, so the ambient light runs from here, all the way to the other side of the door panel, also in the rear passenger door panels too, as you can see, and you can change to any color, and it just change to the color you choose in real time, which is really, really cool, or you can add the color palettes over here, and you can change the brightness on the ambient light too, this is the one in the Auto Model Y, which has no ambient light in the interior at all, and the next upgrade here, are the illuminated safety glass on the cabin, and windows, and roof, let me show you real quick, so the new Model Y has double pane in the front, as you can see here, double pane in the rear, both, and this is the Auto Model Y, has, this is 2023, double pane in the front, but a single pane in the rear, so that's good for, I think it's both for safety, and the noise cancellation on the inside interior of the car, one more thing, another upgrade that it was showing there, but I can't really tell, but it listed, that is tinted safety glass, and metallic infrared reflective coating across the roof, so this glass roof, it actually has better tinting, and heat reflection, than the older Model Y, and another extra function that they added to the new Model Y, from the older Model Y, is that the front trunk, or the front, now has a drain plug, so you can remove the cover, and drain the water down from your front, so you can have a party, birthday party, or a tailgate, a front gate, party in your front, with ice, and drinks, and then after the end of the party, then you can just drain all the, you know, melted ice down to the drain, but of course, the current, or older Model Y do not have that function, because the water will just stuck in here, and one more thing that I like, is that the older Model Y has this wiper fluid on the top, and the newer one has it way down here, which is really easy to refill your wiper fluid. Last but not least, is the manual second row air vent, so as I showed you before, the rear air vent on the old Model Y, you can only adjust by hand, and manually, on the new Model Y, is power first and second row air vent, so the air vent in the rear, you can adjust with, let me show you again, so you have to turn it on, you can adjust to any directions you want with the display, right, and you can adjust the fan speed too, or just turn it off, right here, my bad, so just turn it off as well, but that one in the front is still on, and let's go to the front, so this is something that I noticed different between the two cars, that the current Model Y do not have, so it's, you still have to adjust the direction of the airflow in the front with the display, which you can see, press here, so you can adjust, just like the old Model Y, right, but the new Model Y have this airflow, auto airflow function, so with this button right here, so if I press, it will auto moving the air vent around, left and right by itself, so this way, it will help cool down or heat up the interior of the car a lot faster, and a lot more efficient, so that's something I don't see in the old Model Y, I'm not sure if this is a software base to control that, or it's the hardware, but I don't see it in the new Model Y yet, I have downloaded the latest software function, software version of the over the air update in the old Model Y, but I don't see that function, let me show you, if I turn it on here, there's no function at all to let the air auto flow left and right for you, so that is another upgrade for the new Model Y, so these are all the new upgrades in the new 2026 Tesla Model Y or Model Y Juniper, compared to the older or current Model Y, and I believe a lot of upgrades are more than what I thought before, before I actually, you know, do a detailed comparisons, and I go through all the list of upgrades that they listed on the website, hopefully this would help you make decision on upgrading from the older Model Y to the newer Model Y, or if you're still considering getting Model Y, if you, you know, you could just get a an old, older Model Y with really, really good deal, or pay a little extra on the new Model Y, for me, in my opinion, if I want to upgrade or pay more for the new Model Y, I would wait and not get the launch series, because launch series, you would have to pay, I believe, 12, give or take, 12,000 more than the regular price, because with the launch series, you get the 16 speakers, if you don't care about extra two speakers, also FSD, acceleration boost, all the badges in the car, and a little, you know, small little design is different, I would wait for a regular long range, or rear wheel drive, or even, you know, wait for the performance, performance model would be really cool, I can't wait to check out the performance model on the new Model Y, let me know and comment down below what you think about the new, all the upgrades on the new Model Y compared to the older Model Y, and thank you so much, guys, for watching today's video, make sure to click like if you like the video, make sure to subscribe for more awesome content like this, we'll see you on the next video, peace! you