TT97
Active Member
Well I mean they could have just used the same, simpler charge port door design on the S/X instead of designing a more complicated and less easy to fit charge port door on the 3. So it's not like this was some intractable problem that not even the great minds at Tesla could solve. It was solved. The S/X already had perfectly acceptable charge port doors.
I had the same question at the SC (when I was getting my door changed out) but they couldn't give me a good answer. After thinking about it further, I think Tesla changed the design so there could be more room for additional charge ports for other markets.