Weve got a first look at Elon Musks personal Tesla Model S with a new prototype color that will apparently be possible thanks to a new paint shop.

Over the last year, Elon Musk has been talking about Tesla building the most-advanced paint shop at Gigafactory Berlin.

The CEO talked about new multi-layered paints:

Giga Berlin will have worlds most advanced paint shop, with more layers of stunning colors that subtly change with curvature.

Musk said that Tesla is working on a new deep crimson red that is becoming his favorite feature.

Now a Tesla Model S with a special color was spotted in the executive parking lot of SpaceXs headquarters:

It led people to speculate that the Model S his Musks personal Tesla and that the color might be the new deep crimson.

The CEO confirmed that it is a prototype of the color that Tesla is developing for the new paint shop.

It has been a while since Tesla has introduced new color options.

On the contrary, in recent years, Tesla has reduced color options in order to streamline its production and simplify service repairs.

We might have to wait a while to see the new colors though since Musk has linked them to Gigafactory berlin going online.

Tesla is currently building Gigafactory Berlin in Germany, and it is expected to be complete by the summer of 2021 to first produce the Model Y.

Musk says that the new paint shop and colors will make it to other vehicles, but it could take a while:

To be clear, Fremont and Shanghai will also be upgraded over time, but its hard to retrofit these improvements to an operating paint shop.

As we recently reported, Tesla built a new paint shop for Model 3 in Fremont, and it plans onrecommissioning its former paint shopas it increases Model Y production.

Unfortunately, the pictures are in the shade and we are not getting a great look at the color.

From what I can see, its similar to the signature red that Tesla had for early Model S vehicles, but it looks a bit darker.

Again, thats hard to tell because of the shade.

Also, Elon said that the color changes with the light so Ill hold off on judging it until we get a better look.

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