Musk admits to "locking up electricity"! For an additional 14,000 yuan, the Model Y will increase its range by 96 kilometers

Xiao Li Che commented on Li Jianhong

2024-05-08 08:25Posted in Gansu Automobile Creator

As we all know, the mileage of electric vehicles is basically determined by the capacity of the power battery, although some manufacturers have chosen to "lock the battery" for charging safety, that is, to use part of the battery capacity as redundancy to prevent users from charging and discharging, causing battery damage, or spontaneous combustion, fire and other dangers. But how would you react if someone told you that you only need to spend a little more money to "unlock" more range when you buy an electric car?

A few days ago, Tesla founder Elon Musk said on social media that the 260-mile Model Y produced before the past actually has a larger range, and users only need to spend $1500-2000 to add 40-60 miles of mileage, and according to Musk, such an "operation" will soon be realized.

1500-2000 US dollars, according to the current exchange rate, equivalent to about 10821.6-14428.8 yuan, and 40-60 miles, converted into 64.3-96 kilometers, that is to say, spend more than 10,000 yuan, you can increase the cruising range of about 60-100 kilometers.

As soon as such news came out, the reaction of Tesla owners was of course polarized, and some car owners and friends were eager to "spit fragrant" and swear in front of Musk. Because for users, it is clear that they have bought power batteries by spending money, and they also run with batteries on their backs every day, but the range that this battery should have been "hidden" by Tesla Part of the battery life, and if you want to get this part of the mileage, you have to spend an extra 1-14,000 yuan in cost, isn't this bullying honest people?

Of course, there are also many friends who have said, although Tesla's "hidden electricity" and "locked electricity" are not authentic, but they have been accustomed to standard mileage models, and originally felt that the mileage was a little less, and they also wanted to change to long-range models to get more mileage, but it was hard to buy and sell, and it would cost a lot of money. Now, for less than 15,000 yuan at most, you can increase the cruising range of less than 100 kilometers, which is still very cost-effective.

In fact, by embedding hardware and then paying to unlock it, it is a long-standing habit for Tesla, and now Musk admits to "locking the power" and unlocking more range by paying. In the past, Tesla also engaged in paying to unlock seat heating, paying to reduce the acceleration time of 100 kilometers, and paying to enable higher-level intelligent driving assistance. It can be said that when Tesla's products leave the factory, the hardware required for many functions has been "pre-embedded" early, and when users need it, they can be paid to open it.

In this way, in fact, it also gives users more choices, some functions and performance, when users buy a car, the perception is not strong, and they may not feel necessary, but after using it for a period of time, they feel that there is a need to exist, then they can unlock relevant functions by paying, rather than like traditional manufacturers, if you want to get the original functions that you don't have when you buy a car, you can only buy a higher configuration model.

So what is Musk's view on Musk's admitting to "lock the power" and pay to increase the mileage?

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