wait so to clarify - can i charge my 60D up to 100% without any harm to the battery?
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Model X 60D is Gone
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wait so to clarify - can i charge my 60D up to 100% without any harm to the battery?
Good guess - or they might not continue too much longer because Autopilot 2.0 is about to come out and they will sell every Model S/X they can build at very high prices. I can dream. . .
I don't know if you're actually 70 years old but the "thank you kindly" thing you have going on is getting old. Please don't make us read that after every post you make for the next billion years. It's a meaningless verbal tick that just uses up space.
I don't know how many planned on buying the 60 and upgrading to 75 later but I did see several people discussing it on various forums. Many said that they would buy the 60, pay cheaper sales tax and registration (or excise taxes) and then apply for the $7500 federal tax credit. Once they got the $7500 tax credit refunded, many planned on using that towards the upgrade price. By doing it this way, they could reduce their taxes/registration fees and potentially reduce the amount borrowed while still getting a 75 kWh battery.
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We've been over this before:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/1719895/
He's passive-aggressive and he does it purposely to try to drive us all nuts. But just do what @ohmman does:
ohmman said:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/1721123/
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Those people could then essentially pay for the upgrade with cash the next day. It doesn't make sense to wait for a non-existent refund. The tax credit simply reduces your tax burden. There is no refund though. Once you reduce your tax liability down to zero you lose any remaining credit.
Not exactly true. If you have standard withholding from your taxes and don't change your exemptions, assuming you qualify, you will get the $7,500 back as a refund when you file your taxes. (Or you will get a refund $7,500 larger than you would have gotten otherwise.)
If they are smart enough, and plan far enough ahead, they can adjust their withholding so that they get the "refund" early, but unless they started way before they purchase the car they aren't going to have that $7,500 just sitting around ready to pay for the upgrade the next day.
Umm...I got a refund two years ago when I bought the Model S. Will be getting another one for this year for buying the Model X.
Technically, he's correct.
The "refund" you got was your own money that had been withheld from your pay or transactions during the year by the government.
In terms of settling up at tax time, it can be (and usually is) a refund - but if you hadn't had any money withheld you wouldn't get any extra money from the government once they reached the point where they didn't want any of your money.
With the 2.0 hardware announcement, I'm now wondering if the removal of 60D may not just be profit margin-related? all the extra cameras and 40x faster computer and constantly operating in shadow mode for 2.0 has to eat up a lot more battery. possibly reduce the range significantly enough that they can no longer advertise as 200 Mile range?
How do you explain the pending X60D orders that have yet to be delivered (either pushed back on purpose / orders right before X60D removal / or in other countries)?
I really doubt it would take up that much more battery. The cameras probably only use a couple watts each. While the computer is 40x faster, it doesn't mean it uses 40x as much power. Processors today are much more efficient than their predecessors and can often perform more calculations and use less power.
Why would they need to have you upgrade to 75D? I think there a couple responses from DS where they are going have to pay extra to get the new autopilot and also the full autonomous features. I wonder how much extra that is going to cost. it seems the DS are all over the place on it.
In another thread, it sounds like a few others were offered a slightly discounted upgrade offer of only $2000 more (for a total of $4500 instead of $5000). I haven't heard back from my DS yet so I don't know how much it will cost me.
