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New Roadster Goodies for 2014
- Thread starter hjr
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Unfortunately we're not talking about an adapter. This would require a significant retrofit to the car and battery pack. The Roadster doesn't have the signalling capability, nor the high voltage DC bypass.
Agreed. Based on what was said at Teslive, I would expect we'll see Next Gen Roadster before we'd even hear a whisper of a supercharger retrofit for Original* Roadster.
* For simplicity sake, I mean all "pre Model S" Roadsters not just 1.0 builds.
mgemmell
Scottish chap
From conversations with the technical team, here's what I am hearing about the upgrade:
1) sub 3 second 0-100 km/h
2) liquid cooled electronics and motor
3) rather expensive ($30k?)
This all may require major changes to the batteries and is almost definitely not a ranger job so we'll need to get our cars to a service center (a mere 2000km drive for me), but despite all this if we are talking about Veyron-level acceleration and proper Model S style cooling for "just" $30k... Frankly I'm taking it!
1) sub 3 second 0-100 km/h
2) liquid cooled electronics and motor
3) rather expensive ($30k?)
This all may require major changes to the batteries and is almost definitely not a ranger job so we'll need to get our cars to a service center (a mere 2000km drive for me), but despite all this if we are talking about Veyron-level acceleration and proper Model S style cooling for "just" $30k... Frankly I'm taking it!
djp
Model 3 Performance
From conversations with the technical team, here's what I am hearing about the upgrade:
1) sub 3 second 0-100 km/h
2) liquid cooled electronics and motor
3) rather expensive ($30k?)
This all may require major changes to the batteries and is almost definitely not a ranger job so we'll need to get our cars to a service center (a mere 2000km drive for me), but despite all this if we are talking about Veyron-level acceleration and proper Model S style cooling for "just" $30k... Frankly I'm taking it!
We've been hearing about those upgrades for a while now, I think they got shelved when Joost left.
adiggs
Well-Known Member
From conversations with the technical team, here's what I am hearing about the upgrade:
1) sub 3 second 0-100 km/h
2) liquid cooled electronics and motor
3) rather expensive ($30k?)
This all may require major changes to the batteries and is almost definitely not a ranger job so we'll need to get our cars to a service center (a mere 2000km drive for me), but despite all this if we are talking about Veyron-level acceleration and proper Model S style cooling for "just" $30k... Frankly I'm taking it!
I'd be hard pressed to not take 'em up on such an upgrade, even at $30k.
But wow - if the car eats rear tires with today's acceleration, what's it going to be like at sub 3s? Just have to mentally be prepared to leave visible rubber behind most everywhere you go
ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
Vger
Active Member
It might require a new battery to get the amps up high enough.
A significantly better battery (longer range and/or lighter) would still be my most fervent wish.
strider
Active Member
I would assume a new battery, PEM, etc. I would budget for a $50k upgrade. Which is a lot but I don't know of any sub $200k car that can do 0-60 in less than 3 seconds. I still don't know how they're going to get all that power to the ground though....
But for me personally I'd rather buy a Mission R next year than make my Roadster faster. Then someday if/when my PEM fails I'll just do the upgrade so the upgrade will be "discounted" by the cost of a new PEM.
But for me personally I'd rather buy a Mission R next year than make my Roadster faster. Then someday if/when my PEM fails I'll just do the upgrade so the upgrade will be "discounted" by the cost of a new PEM.
adiggs
Well-Known Member
jbadger
TR#506, MXP, ~3#1206~
I would probably drive my current 2.0 till the battery has degraded to the point I could no longer drive it to and from home and work. As much as I would love to buy the upgrades, at that point I would try to buy a lower milage 2.5 and keep the 2.0 in the garage until battery prices have come way down or someone wants to buy it.
Or...buy a Gen3 / New Roadster.
vbsdan
Member
Exactly. Getting 70 miles of range per hour might seem slow compared to Supercharging but it's triple what we get from a typical public level 2 charger. An 8 hour stop turns into a less than 3 hour stop. Not ideal but a huge improvement.
wiztecy
Active Member
That number is actually world-wide... don't know what the real number is after the crashes that decomissioned some.
IIRC he said that they would "do something for the Roadster owners", or something to that effect. Sounded like they are planning to toss us a bone, not do something big.
Raffy.Roma
Rome (Italy)
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