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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krash" data-source="post: 6082348" data-attributes="member: 59951">Cars have fixed torque and power limits, separate from the power of the battery. Also the motors have a back EMF curve that lowers torque at higher RPMs.Tesla thinks they are merely offering to flip a switch that tells the car not to charge to 100%, rather to only charge to 95% or 97%. Such a switch does exist. If so, then your car would not pick up any performance.But for some people who have had larger battery replacements, the car actually shows the larger battery size on the car screen and app afterward. Sometimes these are paid upgrades. Sometimes they are replacements but the service centers install firmware that shows the car as the higher model. Sometimes they even rebadge them. Of course the title doesn't change. But I think that these cars DO pickup higher torque, motor power and battery power limits. I believe the service centers have to check with corporate engineering to do so, for example to make sure the wiring can handle the extra power.I would bet 90% likely they are only offering the first case. But you should ask them if the car will show as an 85 or 90 onscreen, and see what they say. I help track that stuff in the <a href="https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/2268445" target="_blank">Performance Metrics</a> thread, but we don't have a large enough sample to even tell how the P85Ds and P90Ds differ.</blockquote>