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> Presumably this cost them a fortune to do it in the first place. Why not get some good will out of it? "Hey sorry about your battery. We only had a 90 so we t
by HWR_14 4y ago
> Presumably this cost them a fortune to do it in the first place. Why not get some good will out of it? "Hey sorry about your battery. We only had a 90 so we threw that in there.
As I understand it, all batteries are the same size. They are just software locked. So no additional costs.
It's the same as how Tesla remote unlocked the battery life of people fleeing natural disasters. Which means not only is it there, it's charged.
- Retric 4y agoThe batteries weigh different amounts so it isn’t just software locking at the factory. https://themotordigest.com/how-much-do-tesla-batteries-weigh/ https://themotordigest.com/how-much-do-tesla-batteries-weigh... It’s more likely they didn’t have a 60kWh battery at the time pack to do the replacement. Which brings up an interesting point, a 90kWh battery software locked to 60kWh is a defective part as the added weight takes more energy to move around, has worse acceleration, more tire and break ware etc. It’s therefore likely Tesla failed to provide an equivalent replacement part and thus broke their warranty contract.
- HWR_14 4y agoThat might be a new change that happened in the past few years ago. But it certainly was the way Tesla made cars in 2019: https://insideevs.com/news/342746/more-on-the-return-of-teslas-software-limited-battery-pack-scheme/ https://insideevs.com/news/342746/more-on-the-return-of-tesl...
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- Retric 4y agoTesla software locked a few 75kWh batteries in 2019 to 60 kWh because so few people bought 60kWh cars and battery prices had fallen a great deal. They didn’t software lock 90kWh to 60kWh batteries in 2013.
- muzika 4y agoThey did this only for very short time period only.