With the tsunami of posts since yesterday's Elon press call I've been struggling to keep up, but I haven't seen this issue clearly addressed so I decided to start a new post. Apologies in advance if I missed this somewhere.
In my opinion the most significant aspect of yesterday's announcements is that for owners of S85 models they can upgrade to a new 90kWh battery. But clearly the upgrade price will not be $3K (the price of the 90kWh option when ordering a new S) that would be a steal: Tesla is not going to give current owners a new higher capacity battery in exchange for a used lower capacity battery for just a three thousand dollars.
I expect Tesla to announce 90kWh pricing based on a prorated trade in value of old 85kWh batteries. The question is what formula Tesla will use to assign a trade in value to the old batteries. At this point we have no idea what that formula will be. I was hoping Elon would spell that out in his blog post "Three Dog Day" but he did not.
I was at the San Rafael CA Service Center yesterday charging my Roadster and of course the employees there had no information from Tesla about it. In fact they hadn't heard anything about the press call.
So let the speculation begin...
In my opinion the most significant aspect of yesterday's announcements is that for owners of S85 models they can upgrade to a new 90kWh battery. But clearly the upgrade price will not be $3K (the price of the 90kWh option when ordering a new S) that would be a steal: Tesla is not going to give current owners a new higher capacity battery in exchange for a used lower capacity battery for just a three thousand dollars.
I expect Tesla to announce 90kWh pricing based on a prorated trade in value of old 85kWh batteries. The question is what formula Tesla will use to assign a trade in value to the old batteries. At this point we have no idea what that formula will be. I was hoping Elon would spell that out in his blog post "Three Dog Day" but he did not.
I was at the San Rafael CA Service Center yesterday charging my Roadster and of course the employees there had no information from Tesla about it. In fact they hadn't heard anything about the press call.
So let the speculation begin...