What Tesla is claiming is conservative* and both Panasonic and LG variants will already be uncorked - the previous M3Ps are. Jason Camissa's video confirmed that the '24 is now battery limited.Hmm, though interestingly both power limits are considerably above what Tesla claims the new M3P to be capable of.
I guess that would indicate there is room for a ludicrous upgrade if they're willing to 'uncork' the top end.
*I think they've been forced to provide a HP spec with the '24 M3P because the previous method of summing the peak motor power now exceeds the max battery discharge power, so they needed a different number. They didn't choose 415kw/557hp and 430kw/577hp. And of course they now sell the same car with two different battery packs at the same time. There will be a performance difference.
In the past, the '21/'22 M3P with the Panasonic battery was rated at 506hp based on sum of peak motor power and could achieve this in everyday driving with 70% SoC and above. There were no lawsuits! For various reasons I think they've simply reverted to this number for the Panasonic '24 M3P (rounded up/down to 510/500hp) and reduced it by a worst case 30kW/40hp for the LG.
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