Nobody in America has taken delivery of a Model Y L. We found the invitations that say when.

No one in the United States has taken delivery of a Model Y L. Not one. We have checked Tesla's inventory every day since July 4, and in 60 days we have never seen a single Y L listed, new or used.

Search for the answer yourself and you will hit a trap we walked into first. There are headlines reading "Tesla Owners Celebrate First Deliveries of Model Y L," and they look like exactly what you want. They are from September 2025, and they are about China, where the car has been on sale for a year. They tell you nothing about your order.

There is a second lookalike. Model Y Ls have been sitting in US showrooms since mid-July and people photograph them. Those are display cars. You can climb in and sit in the third row, but you cannot buy that one and nobody drove it home.

Around August 14, delivery windows started appearing in people's Tesla accounts. Not VINs, not dates you can hold Tesla to, just a range and a button asking you to start getting ready. The earliest opened in late August. Others landed in October and November.

Then, in the last week of August, something more concrete went out to a small group of early order holders: an invitation to collect the car at the factory in Texas on September 25, 26 or 27, with a tour included and room for three guests. That is not an estimate. That is a date with a place attached.

So the shape of it is this. Deliveries have not started. But Tesla has now told specific people to show up on specific days, and that is the last thing that happens before a car changes hands.

This part matters if you want to know how much to trust it, so here is the whole chain.

The story reached most people through a Tesla creator's video and write-up on August 29. When we traced that sourcing, it came down to one line: screenshots shared by owners. No names, no links, and the screenshots were not published.

So we went looking for the owners. We found the original post: a Y L holder, writing publicly two days before any coverage, on August 27. They said the invitation had landed, quoted the dates, said they had RSVP'd, and attached the screenshot. Someone asked whether those would be the first deliveries. The holder replied that they probably were, because Cybertruck and standard Model Y buyers at the same factory were not getting the same invitations. A third person noticed the invites seemed to be reaching Texas-area holders, which is what you would expect for a pickup in Austin.

That is a first-person, dated, screenshot-backed account from the person who received it. It is the best evidence available, and it is still not Tesla confirming anything. We are showing you where it came from so you can weigh it yourself.

Four Model Y L owners have put their delivery windows on our public record. The earliest opens September 12. The latest runs to December 20. Every one of them ordered in the first days of July.

That last part is the interesting bit. Two of them ordered on the same day, July 2, and their windows are a month apart: one opens September 12, the other October 9. Same day in line, very different answers. Whatever Tesla is using to sequence these, the order date alone is not it.

We have also recorded the windows moving, and not only in the direction people fear. One holder's window jumped eight days earlier, from September 20 to September 12. Another, two days later, watched theirs slide from late September out to October 7. Both are real and both are recent. If your own app has been bouncing around, that is the pattern, not a glitch on your end.

We check Tesla's inventory for Y Ls every day and have never found one. That sounds like it should conflict with deliveries about to begin. It does not, and the reason is worth understanding if you are waiting on a car.

Inventory is the list of cars Tesla has that nobody has bought. Your car is not on it. It goes from the factory to you and never gets listed for sale, because it is already sold. A Y L reaching a customer next month would not put a single unit into the feed we watch.

Here is when a Y L will finally appear there: when somebody walks away from theirs. A cancelled order, a declined delivery, financing that fell through. That car gets relisted, and it becomes the first Y L anyone can simply buy. So our zero is not measuring whether deliveries have started. It is measuring whether you can get one without having stood in line since July.

Three things, and we will report each one when it happens rather than when someone thinks to look.

September 12, when the earliest window on our record opens. September 25 through 27, the factory pickup dates. And the inventory feed, for the first Y L that anyone can buy outright.

Owners tend to say it themselves before anyone reports it. That is how the invitations surfaced, two days ahead of the coverage, and it is where the first delivery will most likely show up too. We will be watching for it.

The inventory figure is our own daily check of Tesla's US listings, running since July 4. Today's run swept every Model Y in the national pool and found no Y L, and a separate check for six-seat configurations came back empty against a live five-seat control, which is how we know an empty result means empty rather than broken.

The invitation account comes from a Model Y L holder posting publicly on August 27, with the invite screenshot attached. We do not name the poster and we do not republish other people's screenshots. It is one person's account of their own email: strong evidence, and not an announcement from Tesla, who have confirmed none of it publicly.

The four community windows are self-reported by holders through this site and reviewed by hand before they count. The movement figures come from those same records, which keep the previous window whenever one changes, so a window that moves leaves a trail of where it moved from.

The China deliveries we mention as a lookalike were reported in September 2025 and are unrelated to US orders. The showroom cars were reported as display units at the time.

Dates are Eastern. We will update this piece rather than quietly leave it standing if the picture changes.