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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the interesting-implications dept.

Tesla remotely extends the range of some cars to help with Irma

As Floridians in the path of Hurricane Irma rushed to evacuate last week, Tesla pushed out a software update that made it a bit easier for certain Model S and Model X owners to get out of the state.

Tesla sometimes sells cars with more hardware battery capacity than is initially available for use by customers, offering the additional capacity as a subsequent software update. For example, Tesla has sold Model S cars rated 60D—the 60 stands for 60kWh of energy storage—that actually have 75kWh batteries. Owners of these vehicles can pay Tesla $9,000 to unlock the extra 15kWh of storage capacity.

But last week, Tesla decided to temporarily make this extra capacity available even to Floridians who hadn't paid for the upgrade to ensure they had enough range to get out of Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma. A Tesla spokesperson confirmed the change to Electrek. The extra 15kWh should give the vehicles an additional 30 to 40 miles of range.

Pay to unlock the full potential of your battery.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday September 13 2017, @01:16AM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @01:16AM (#567038) Journal

    but definitely uncool if there's no way for the owner (the owner is the person who paid tens of thousands of dollars for a car, not the manufacturer) to unlock it.

    Its the manufacturer that is carrying that warranty Not the Consumer.
    The Consumer gets what they are promised AND they get a long battery life.

    Not fully topping off or fully draining a battery leads to much longer battery longevity.
    Tesla's battery longevity is much better than others, such as the Leaf.
    http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-battery-life-what-the-data-show-so-far [greencarreports.com]

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