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Originally Posted by Taylor95
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Originally Posted by RedDevil
... the '220 mile' standard range battery and the 264 mile midrange battery are the same, except for software limiting the range of the standard one.
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That's interesting... why make a lower range model with the same battery? |
The standard needs to have a smaller range or everybody would buy that instead of the current midrange.
It is Tesla's own 'compliance car'; compliant to their $35.000 price target.
Yet, the 220 mile range would make it only slightly smaller than the midrange pack.
If Tesla designed a new pack they would have to make a separate production line, different BMS and other components and need to test them all for possibly maybe $1,000 cheaper construction.
They'd lose the chance to sell an OTA range upgrade or release it in an emergency.
So they didn't.
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