zhangwenteng
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I will not worry about HEPA a lot since it is easy to replace by ourselves. It is more about headlight, trim on door. those are hard and expensive to add later.
I do not worry about rim and color neither. It costs about 2000$ to get whatever color you like (baby blue, pink, purple, rainbow, etc). I will get Rays Racing Rim which will cost about 2.5k, which is nicer and lighter
I do not worry about rim and color neither. It costs about 2000$ to get whatever color you like (baby blue, pink, purple, rainbow, etc). I will get Rays Racing Rim which will cost about 2.5k, which is nicer and lighter
Similar changes to Model 3 took about a month to work their way to the US from China, so I could see these things starting to show up in mid-Feb builds.
than 20" induction.I'm assuming they're working through remaining stock of those parts and will switch over shortly. It's just a guess, but I'm assuming that cars coming off the line in mid-Feb will get those changes so March deliveries should have them. Again, just my personal guesses based on what I've observed with the 3 and other factors.
That said, there are good arguments for and against them keeping the HEPA Y exclusive to China.
FOR
Air quality is far worse in China and consumers are for more conscious about it.
The cars cost less to build in Shanghai so there's a good amount of room in the margin to implement something that's fairly costly like HEPA.
AGAINST
Doesn't make sense to have so many China-specific parts when "the best part is no part."
The tooling, testing, parts, etc have already been developed so why not take advantage of economies of scale.
Wildfires have been particularly bad in California (and Oregon and Washington) over the last few years so Tesla is far more aware of the issue of air quality than ever before.
Presumably, S and X will be getting big upgrades, as soon as tomorrow, so there's far more to differentiate them from 3 and Y.