Tesla has pushed back estimated deliveries for new Model Y orders in Canada to between March and May 2027, two months later than the January to March window its online configurator showed earlier this week.
The change affects all three trims of the model, as first reported by Drive Tesla Canada.
The company’s Canadian configurator showed an estimated delivery of March to May 2027 for the Rear-Wheel Drive, Premium All-Wheel Drive and Performance on Friday across a dozen postal codes EV checked in eight provinces, from Vancouver to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
A buyer ordering now would therefore wait about four to six months for the vehicle. In March, the wait for most versions was measured in weeks.
Prices Unchanged
Tesla left prices untouched. The Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive starts at C$49,990 ($35,100), or C$44,990 ($31,600) after the federal rebate of up to C$5,000 ($3,500). The Premium All-Wheel Drive costs C$64,990 ($45,600) and the Performance C$74,990 ($52,600).
With freight and pre-delivery inspection of C$2,500 ($1,800) and smaller fees, the configurator gave an estimated purchase price of C$52,636 ($36,900) for a base Rear-Wheel Drive delivered in Toronto, before the rebate, and C$52,616 ($36,900) in Vancouver.
From Weeks to Months
The latest change extends a slide in delivery estimates that began over the summer. Early this year, orders for the Rear-Wheel Drive and Premium carried waits of four to six weeks, and the Performance pointed to April or May.
By late July, the Rear-Wheel Drive and Performance showed December 2026 to January 2027 and the All-Wheel Drive showed December 2026, as Tesla had sold through nearly all of its planned 2026 Model Y allocation for Canada.
By late August, all three versions showed December 2026 to January 2027. The window moved to January to March 2027 earlier this week, and to March to May on Friday.
Stock for immediate delivery has also been thin. On September 14, Tesla’s Canadian inventory page listed a single Model Y, a Premium All-Wheel Drive near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
The Rebate Clock
The new window also runs past a cut to the federal rebate. EVAP pays up to C$5,000 on a battery-electric vehicle bought in 2026 and up to C$4,000 ($2,800) in 2027, according to Transport Canada.
The amount depends on the year the dealership submits the buyer’s eligibility assessment, not the delivery date, the department says. The assessment is valid for 90 days. In one example, an assessment filed on December 2, 2026, keeps the 2026 amount for a car delivered on February 21, 2027.
Under that 90-day limit, an assessment filed in 2026 would lapse by the end of March, the first month of Tesla’s new window. Tesla has not said how it times the filings for factory orders.
Only the Rear-Wheel Drive falls under the program’s C$50,000 cap on final transaction value for vehicles not made in Canada. Freight and pre-delivery inspection are excluded from that value.
Made in Berlin
Tesla sources every Model Y it sells in Canada from its factory in Grünheide, near Berlin. It made the switch last year to avoid Canadian tariffs on U.S.-built vehicles, and the move let it cut Canadian Model Y prices by about C$20,000 ($14,000).
Shipping cars from Germany is also longer and more complex than bringing them in from the United States. In July, some customers saw their delivery windows slip by several months after they ordered.
The lower price brought the Rear-Wheel Drive under the C$50,000 cap of the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program (EVAP). The federal scheme, launched in February, offers up to C$5,000 on battery-electric vehicles made in countries with which Canada has a free trade agreement. European-built cars qualify.
Tesla made 754 EVAP claims in August, its best month since the program began, according to Transport Canada data first reported by Automotive News. It ranked sixth among brands that month.
The German plant built 7,000 Model Ys in a single week in October, a record, as it works toward a target of 7,500 a week. It supplies more than 30 markets, so Canadian orders compete with other regions for output, Drive Tesla Canada said.
The plant does not build the six-seat Model Y L, which is not offered in Canada, according to the publication. In the United States, where the Model Y L tops the lineup at $61,990, Tesla removed the $41,990 Model Y All-Wheel Drive from its order page this week. The Canadian lineup is unchanged.
Model 3 Orders Still on Hold
The Model Y is now carrying more of Tesla’s Canadian lineup. The company stopped taking orders for its cheapest Model 3 versions on October 12, saying in a banner on its website that “high demand exhausted Tesla’s import quota” for China-built vehicles.
“Ordering resumes if Govt of Canada issues more quota, expected March 2027,” the banner said.
The pause covers the Shanghai-built Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive, priced from C$39,490 ($27,700), and the Premium All-Wheel Drive, from C$49,990 ($35,100). The Model 3 Performance, at C$74,990 ($52,600), remains available to order.
Iain Myrans, Tesla’s National Senior Manager for Public Policy and Business Development in Canada, said in October that Global Affairs Canada tells automakers in advance the maximum number of cars they can expect to import in each period. “So, while the program outwardly looks like it is a first-come-first-served model, there is a lot more behind it,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
He did not say how many vehicles Tesla could import. On October 26, Tesla’s Canadian website briefly listed the paused Model 3 Premium with the range of the U.S.-built version, before reverting the change the next day. Tesla did not comment on either change.
Global Affairs Canada “is consulting with interested companies to optimize remaining quota availability,” spokesperson Rachael Dolan told Drive Tesla Canada in October. She said the department does not disclose company names.
Tesla began selling China-built Model 3s in Canada in May, after Ottawa replaced its 100% surtax on Chinese-made EVs with a quota of 49,000 vehicles a year at a 6.1% tariff, shared among all importers.
The company said in its third-quarter update that it ended the period with its largest passenger-vehicle backlog in four years, and that it achieved record production in Berlin.
It delivered 486,532 vehicles in the quarter and produced 464,391. Deliveries were down 2.1% from a record 497,099 a year earlier. Tesla does not break out deliveries by country.
