Tesla has rolled the 16-inch center touchscreen out to every Model 3 sold in the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, a day after the same upgrade landed in China. The Performance trim also picks up more range and more horsepower, and the Premium AWD gets a faster 0-60 — but Tesla hasn't said why, and Canada was left out entirely.
Tesla has started shipping a larger 16-inch center touchscreen to every Model 3 built for the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, replacing the 15.4-inch display the sedan has used since its 2023 refresh. The change follows the same upgrade landing in China a day earlier, and it comes bundled with quiet performance gains on two trims — though Tesla hasn't explained where the extra range and power are coming from, or whether existing owners will get them too.
The bigger screen is standard across the whole US Model 3 lineup now — base RWD, Premium RWD, Premium AWD, and Performance — with no price increase on any of them. The more substantial updates are concentrated in two trims:
| Trim | What's new | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Model 3 RWD | 16" screen only | $36,990 |
| Model 3 Premium RWD | 16" screen only | $42,490 |
| Model 3 Premium AWD | 16" screen; 0-60 now 3.8s (was 4.2s); range up to 346 mi | $47,490 |
| Model 3 Performance | 16" screen; black headliner; range up to 316 mi (was 309); peak power up to 528 hp (was 510) | $54,990 |
The Premium AWD's 0-60 drop is the bigger surprise of the two — a four-tenths-of-a-second improvement with no corresponding price change. The Performance trim's gains are smaller in percentage terms (about 2.3% more range, roughly 18 more horsepower) but come with a cosmetic update too: an all-black headliner, matching the darker interior theme Tesla has leaned into recently.
Tesla didn't publish a technical explanation for the Performance trim's range and power increase, or the Premium AWD's quicker 0-60 — no mention of a new drive unit, inverter, or battery chemistry. That silence leaves open the usual questions: whether the gains come from a hardware change exclusive to new production, a software recalibration that could eventually reach existing cars via an over-the-air update, or something else entirely. Tesla also hasn't said whether owners who already have a Model 3 on order, or in their driveway, will see any of these numbers show up for them.
The Canada gap is the oddest part of the rollout. Canadian-market Model 3s are built at the same Shanghai factory as the cars sold in China, which makes the exclusion look more like a sequencing decision than a technical limitation — but Tesla hasn't given a timeline for when, or if, Canada will catch up.
The bottom line: This is a modest but real refresh dressed up as a minor spec bump — a bigger screen for everyone, plus meaningful performance gains for buyers of the two higher trims, at no extra cost. The lack of any technical explanation, combined with Canada's exclusion, suggests Tesla rolled this out factory-first rather than as a clean, documented update, which is worth knowing if you're cross-shopping a Model 3 built before versus after this week.
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