Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Friday that the Usual Vary rear-wheel power Type Y the corporate has been construction and promoting “during the last a number of months” in truth has extra vary than the 260 miles they have been bought with. Pending “regulatory approval,” he wrote that the corporate will liberate some other 40–60 miles of general vary, relying on which battery Type Y house owners have, “for $1,500 to $2,000.”This isn’t the primary time Tesla has software-locked its vehicles’ vary. The corporate published again in 2016 that the 70kWh battery within the Type S 70 in truth had 75kWh of capability that consumers may pay greater than $3,000 to get entry to. It’s imaginable that the present Type S and X vehicles, which weigh the similar as their longer-range opposite numbers, have additionally been software-limited.