The first thing you notice is what is missing. No key to turn, no idle shudder at the lights, no gearbox hunting for the right ratio on the climb up Doncaster Hill. The 2025 Tesla Model Y Premium simply goes, and the silence it does it in reframes what a family SUV is allowed to feel like.

The rear-wheel-drive setup delivers its 255kW with the immediacy that only an electric drivetrain manages - no build-up, no waiting, just a clean shove from a standstill that makes merging onto the Eastern a non-event. The low-mounted battery keeps the centre of gravity down, so a car this practical corners far flatter than its shape suggests.

Inside, the pared-back cabin has become the thing people either love immediately or spend an afternoon being converted to. Once the initial minimalism stops being a novelty you are left with an enormous glass roof, genuinely comfortable seating for five, and a boot arrangement that keeps swallowing more than seems reasonable. The frunk still feels like a small magic trick.

Where it changes your life is the ordinary week. Plug it in at home, wake up full, and the fuel stop simply drops out of your routine. Servicing is minimal because there is so little to service, and the regenerative braking means even the brake pads live an unusually quiet life. For a household doing school runs and a commute, the running costs are in a different conversation entirely.

This one is finished in grey over a black interior and has covered just 21,000 kilometres, so it is barely out of its first chapter. It carries the latest design updates inside and out, which means you get the near-new car experience without being the person who paid the near-new car price.

Come and drive it at our Nunawading showroom. Ten minutes is usually enough - the hard part afterwards is going back to whatever you arrived in.

Be warned that the acceleration is fully available in a school zone, and your right foot has no idea that it is not supposed to be.

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