Head of Tesla Motors Elon Musk clarified their cryptic allusions to an upgraded electric Roadster that he scattered the other day in his Twitter. Today he wrote: an update for the Roadster will allow him to go non-stop from Los Angeles to San Francisco — nearly 650 kilometers! Merry Christmas! He further explained that the upgrade until it touches the Model S, but in the long run, you can count on-reserve and increase for sedan.
It is interesting to note that the increase in battery capacity (at the moment it is enough for about 370 kilometers) will be made without replacing any components to release additional funding will help upgrade the software. So have to disappoint those who were hoping for an unexpected premiere fully updated Tesla Roadster, the miracle will not happen.
And will, most likely, invitations to approximately 2600 owners roadsters, bought them in 2008-2012 110 000 USD or equivalent in other currencies. It is unknown at what time will the upgrade procedure and in what amount it will cost: given kompyuterizovannyimi of Tesla electric cars, we are not very surprised, even if the Masks will be limited to sending e exe file which should be run in the on-Board computer Roadster... what gracefully and in the spirit of the time!