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Tesla Remotely Extended the Range of Vehicles So Drivers Could Escape Hurricane Irma

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

takyon writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @12:59AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @12:59AM (#567554)

    I really don't believe we should buy cars like this.

    Just what sort of action do you propose to take to further this belief of yours?

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:50AM (8 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:50AM (#567622) Journal

    Guess you can't read either... Let me come in again...

    Don't buy these kind of cars. The "Market" will take notice. It works just like voting, only here you really do need money to have an effect :-)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:15AM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:15AM (#567634)

      How's your Market working for you with other user-unfriendly devices such as Apple phones?

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:22AM (5 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:22AM (#567652) Journal

        :-) Just fine, thanks for asking

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:58PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:58PM (#567863)

          Interesting. So on the one hand, you claim Market will prevent people from buying devices that contain many controls that restrict and limit users to their disadvantage, such as a Tesla car, but Market has not prevented people from buying devices that contain many controls that restrict and limit users to their disadvantage, such as Apple phones, computers, and other electronic gadgets. Market will both do and also not do a given thing? Which is it?

          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:21PM (3 children)

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:21PM (#567883) Journal

            Market will both do and also not do a given thing?

            :-) Yes, it's very quantum, kinda like your gibber-gabber

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:46PM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:46PM (#567918)

              Your rampant display of your own ignorance continues unabated. Quantum mechanics do not allow for particles to do both of a set of mutually-exclusive actions.

              Mutually-exclusive actions is completely unlike a situation where a given technology, say electric motors, can be applied in multiple areas with differing goals, such as one being improved fuel economy and another being improved vehicle acceleration.

              • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:01PM (1 child)

                by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:01PM (#567973) Journal

                :-) Thank you, Professor Plum. I'll make a note of it.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:55PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:55PM (#568047)

                  That sounds like a tacit admission that the depth of your knowledge concerning electric appliances, economics, and social graces is something an inchworm would have trouble drowning in.

      • (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday September 14 2017, @10:15AM

        by FakeBeldin (3360) on Thursday September 14 2017, @10:15AM (#567717) Journal

        ...user-unfriendly devices such as Apple phones?

        You really should explain what you mean with "user-unfriendly" when you're using it so differently from the rest of the world.
        One of the main selling points of Apple devices is their user-friendliness.