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I'd guess not or it would be so expensive they won't offer it.
I think this is an interesting question.I think that's exactly the issue - Tesla makes money selling cars, not on service, so they would much rather have people buy a new car than tie up their going-through-growing-pains service department retrofitting features. If features can be retrofit at all, I think the price will be really high.
Some very high level source told me its highly improbable as the cost would be too high versus just trading your car.
Well this shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. It's just a matter of time. Considering that lithium ion density goes up at least 8% per year for the last 10 years, that just means that we'll keep seeing higher and higher battery pack sizes. more capacity = more power. more power + AWD = beyond insanity. Tesla would be insane *NOT* to do this.
I remember Elon hinting at an "affordable supercar" a few months back...I don't think there will be a Tesla car that does anything like 3.3 in the short term. They may have a stripped down testbed that can do that... that might illustrate what a new Roadster might be able to do. I would hope that it has 4 electric motors, like the Mercedes SLS. Only then would it have any chance of lasting on the track, as there would be 4 motors to share the heat load.
But to finish it off and make an actual car out of it would required major resources... and if they are really spending time putting together such a testbed... it's taking R&D time away from Model X and Gen3 efforts.
Elon has been remarkably open about what they're working on... and would probably have mentioned this car before now. He has said something about an update to the Roadster in the same discussion as the "truck" and other form factor vehicles... but it seems a long way off.
There was a thread here somewhere that speculated that an AWD version could have different gearing on the front and rear wheels to allow for more room on the top end w/o a transmission. I assume that might enable more sustained high speed as well.
Thanks for passing that along. Will be exciting when it comes out eventually.Hey that's what one of the tech guys told me at the factory. Figure other TeslaHeads would want to know. I have no interests in starting rumors.
BTW I'm perfectly happy with my P85+.
Perhaps a subject for a different thread, but wouldn't you expect AWD with 4 motors to have a significant effect on range due to additional draw from the pack?