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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoDoesn’t Tesla lock larger battery capacity begging a paywall?
Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoDoesn’t Tesla lock larger battery capacity begging a paywall?
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 months ago
That was from years ago.
Tesla used to sell cars rated by pack capacity. For example the ‘P85D’ was the performance model, 85 kWh pack, dual motor.
There was also a 40 kWh (cheaper) and 60 kWh version.
After a while they stopped building 40 kWh packs and just software-locked the 60 kWh pack to only have 40 kWh of usable capacity. I think for a while they offered an upgrade where you could pay to unlock the extra capacity.
I don’t think they’ve done that in some time. I know when I bought my car (model y long range) they didn’t even advertise the pack capacity nor was any upgrade offered. The only paywall thing I’ve seen with Tesla is FSD and they’re pretty transparent about that. I don’t think they’re awful for paywalling it, because if they build the car without the FSD hardware it won’t have other safety systems like lane departure notification.