Now the real trick is once your in, unlock all 40kWh models to 60.
Haha, yeah, that's the funny story we were having an argument over morals/ethics about this on another forum.
Basically a thermal imaging company, Flir, released a set of cameras - Flir E4 through Flir E8. Flir E4 costs around $1,000 USD, Flir E8 costs close to $6,000. Main difference is resolution: E4 is a poxy 80x60 limiting its application, but E8 is a full 320x240 which is good for electronic engineering.
Do you know what the difference between the E4 and E8 is? turns out... a configuration file, on the camera. Physically for 5000 dollars you're paying for some different characters. Some clever guys basically figured out how to convert E4 into E8, making it a lot more useful.
Are you stealing $5k from FLIR by applying this modification?
Moral dilemma - since technically it's software you're modifying and it's licenced, you've broken the EULA... but it's not
REALLY that much software, it's basically telling the imaging processor (an FPGA) whether to cut image at 80x60 or 320x240... so it's kinda stretching what you'd call a software licence.
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So, by unlocking 40kWh capacity into 60kWh, aren't you stealing $10k from Tesla?
Well, in the same case like Flir, you're already paying for all that capacity. All the battery hardware is there. So you're just unlocking what was already sold to you.
So there's no problem right?
Well, you're also not paying for the R&D behind the 60kWh pack which was "licenced" to you at 40kWh with the understanding should you wish to use this, that you would pay for it.
So there's a moral/ethical dilemma here.
Same thing goes for tuning cars; people figured out how to unlock ECUs and gain extra horses, are they stealing the next model up? No, not really, but the car manufacturer would argue they are.
In my opinion you should be free to do whatever you like with what has been sold to you. It is yours to play with however you wish.