A fellow MS bud dropped it by my hanger today. There was a write up on the new 570 along with a piece about Model X and a side bar about Autopilot in their P90DL which is where they mentioned the horsepower. I did not check the date but my bud is pretty good about reading the mags when they show up then depositing stuff he thinks would interest me shortly there after. I would not be surprised if it is a current issue which means it likely went to press four weeks ago (????).
Yes, they talk about the horsepower number, but they don't make a big deal about the specifics (certainly not enough to catch something like battery vs motor power). For example, the big car mags don't dyno cars to verify power. I know some hot rod magazines still do, but I haven't seen it done by the big car mags. All the performance tests are focused on the actual performance, not the specifics on the horsepower.
Not to go back in circles, Tesla never officially claimed the battery had enough power to put out the 691hp (although people interpreted it that way). That rating was always just the nameplate rating of the motors according to ECE R85. AKA the whole "motor power" argument.
If you look at from the point of view of "they never said" then none of the specs ever published would be worth anything. They said Model X can tow 5000lb, they never said at what SoC, maybe only between 90 and 95%, but not higher or lower, eh? If someone's 85D full charge range degrades down to 80miles range you would argue that the car's range is still 265 miles since the spec page never explicitly said range was without re-charging along the way? When they list the CPO prices on a USA page, they list them in "$", nowhere does it say it's US$, so you think they would accept Canadian $ or Taiwan $ at 1:1? Of course not because it's reasonable to assume that on US page the prices are in US$. When car hp is published, it is reasonable to assume the car can produce that power without modifications.
