Ending of range anxiety, IMO, is really about taking the guess-work from the prediction of how far one can drive in MS, especially when environmental conditions change while on-route. The first attempt at this prediction was made in version 6.1, which includes real-time graph showing how much the battery is depleted at the end of the specified route. The important thing to note, that although this graph has, as an input, selected rout to the destination, it is **not** part of the navigation system – it is part of the Energy App.
The information about the route can be pulled either from the GPS based navigation system for cars with the Tech package, **or** from the Google navigation for cars without the tech. package. So improvement to the Energy App. could apply to the entire fleet of MS.
I think that elimination of range anxiety is most likely entails a significant improvement to the Energy App. Speed has a major impact on the range, but Energy App currently does not allow to enter planned speed for a trip (either in mph or in mph above speed limit). So I expect this to be added. The graph that shows real time progress along the route and predicted battery charge at the end can also be made “active” in that it could, if battery charge at the end falls too low (say 10-15%) could provide a real time advice on the speed that need to be maintained in order to arrive to the destination with enough charge.
Another enhancement that can help with range anxiety, and could be applied to the whole fleet, is ECO mode on conventional cruise control. Allowing speed to fall by several mph driving up-hill, and then allowing the speed to exceed the setting by several mph driving downhill will improve efficiency.
The third component affecting the entire fleet could be some tweaks in the software controlling the operation of power conversion unit which could result in slight improvement in efficiency (lowering Wh/mile).
Regarding the price action, given the above, I believe that we will see significant run-up into the press conference because of mass confusion and wildly optimistic expectation of increased range (confusion between “ending range anxiety” and increasing range). So I believe we will see very swift movement down after the press conference.
There is, however, a chance that prediction of dropping SP after the conference will turn out wrong – as others mentioned, it seems unusual that we have a press-conference rather than the usual “event”. This opens door to reporters asking wide range of questions on demand, production, personnel re-assignment, GF progress, etc. If Elon successfully dismisses the bear perpetuated concerns, we might see a reversal of the down ward trend.
