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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The first step is the biggest - more range, top speed, power, better trim for just $2,000 extra. That's deliberate, no doubt. Once won over to upgrade from the base model people may look ahead and take another step up.
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Very deliberate! As well as in that partial premium interior and the base autopilot feature together is just $5k.
As someone pointed out on a YouTube video, once they get the parking lot navigation released to the public, when people see Tesla cars driving up to their owners for them to load groceries into or to avoid a long walk in some inclement weather condition... it will be a huge selling point and many buyers will want that option.
Since that is software and not hardware feature, it make the car have a larger profit margin...
Once again they have made obvious that Tesla have purposefully limited the range and speed via software and can upgrade it later as made evident again during the upcoming release... Many people think that they are trying to make sure the Model 3 does not 'outdo' the Model S. I am sure that had to be part of it...
I assume that it was for both business and consistency/reliability that these limitations were in place and that after being out in the 'wild' (ie, the public's hands) the data coming back let Tesla see they could ease up on some of the limitations.