Tesla?s latest drive has been to bring down the price of electric vehicles, which it will officially do in spectacular fashion when the Model 3 is released at the end of 2017. But it?s also working on improving range and performance and it?s managed to do that with a new battery upgrade option for all Model S and X cars in the near future.
The P100D upgrade for the two vehicles, is a redesign of the batteries they use. Although the chemical composition of the batteries remains the same, Tesla has developed a technique to get an extra 10 per cent power in to them, creating a 100kWh design, hence it?s called P100D.
This $10,000 (?7,600) upgrade for new buyers, or $20,000 upgrade for existing owners (as the P90D batteries would need to be recycled), improves the Model S performance to allow it to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just 2.5 seconds with Ludicrous Mode enabled. This makes it faster than any non-limited run vehicle in the world.
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