Tesla Battery Gossip cut n paste
As Florida residents fled Hurricane Irma over the weekend, some Tesla owners got a little surprise from the auto maker to help them get out of the danger zone. On Saturday, Tesla began pushing a so...
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Bumpyroad wrote:
I thought of an analogy for a gas fueled vehicle. say ford offered a mustang that gave a 500 mile range. for $1000 more you could get the mustang with a 1000 mile range.
seems that all they did was put the same gas tank in both, and put the pickup point half way up the tank so it was only 25 gallons of usable space, but for $1000 they would move the pick up point to the bottom of the tank and get full use out of it. no real cost to ford, but if they did it to me I would feel like I was taken.
bumpy
That's assuming that there is no additional cost for running the battery at the higher capacity. Without knowing that, then we can't really say if it's being "taken".
