Tesla Model X electric SUV WILL start delivery in the autumn (in the US)

Elon Musk has declared that the new Tesla Model X – Tesla’s take on an electric SUV – will start arriving with customers in ‘three or four months’.

Tesla has done remarkably well to go from a start-up electrifying Lotus cars to delivering the first truly usable electric car with the Tesla Model S.

There have, of course, been trials and tribulations along the way, and they continue with the repeated delay in properly launching the Tesla Model X, Tesla’s very promising electric SUV, which was first revealed more than three years ago, at which time buyers were starting to put down deposits.

At the time, Tesla reckoned the Model X would start arriving in early 2014, but that has been put back many times since (here and here, for example), but now, speaking at a shareholder meeting earlier this week, Elon Musk has declared the first customer cars are just “three of four months” away from delivery.

We hear Tesla has had problems with the funky Falcon doors on the Model X, and are currently playing with software settings to get the Model X as right as it can be out of the gate, so the expectation is, with all the delays, that the Model X will be on the money when it arrives.

And if Tesla has got it right, the Model X really could be a stunning car – especially with the P85 version – and properly usable too with the ever-extending network of Tesla Superchargers.

Sadly, it will be well in to 2016 before we have even a hope of the Model X arriving in the UK (and probably even later than that).