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I think Elon is merely stating the obvious. Certainly good news, but not surprising.
NOTE: there are different ways to interpret the word "upgrade".
yea, I've always said that too. A bit silly to build hot swappable packs without the option of easily upgrading. lets just hope they don't repeat the recent P85D/autopilot enhancements where things were upgraded under our noses and those built before 'X' date get screwed with old hardware.
= We'll do the same kind of thing for the Model S because we'll (obviously) have the same legacy tech issue in the future.
Excessively optimistic reading: he didn't mention the X, so this must mean that the X will have an upgraded pack.
It's not excessively optimistic. I've come to learn that to understand Tesla you must read between the lines. Not very long before the "D unveiling" they explicitly said there would be no AWD Model S before the Model X. However, a few months prior to the unveiling they stopped saying this and just avoided the questions more or less. So I think you're right to read it like this, that's what I'm doing. And I think as they unveil the X with a bigger pack they will know a lot of S owners will want to upgrade so they will at first say "No, there will be no upgrade "in the near future" and then just a few months later it will be available to S owners, but only after X's have started rolling off the line.
Oh yea, and I'd like to use the old battery for energy storage for my home. I would sooooooo like to become impervious of PG&E outages!
And isn't it safe to think/say that a larger battery pack will cost significantly more at this point? So an S110D will be maybe $10,000 more than an S85D? I would love to have the range, but I believe I will be pretty satisfied with the range for the 85, particularly when the SupCs are in (or most of them) by the end of this year acrossed the US (where I drive).