JBee
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Thats why I said this in my comment to you, to confirm that it was so, instead we landed on the missing Plaid motor for some reason....You are way out from my original point.
Folks are suggesting there will be a Plaid option and this Plaid option will be $20k-30k more than the quad motor truck. I don’t see how this huge price increase can be justified (or people will pay it) when the difference is small.
If we take the tri motor, at $69k, add inflation ($10k), add an extra motor ($5k) and we’re right around $85k.
The current (X/S) Plaid upgrade is $18k and you get 1 extra motor, fancy windings, and brakes. A Cybertruck Plaid upgrade wouldn’t be getting the extra motor so what could Tesla do to justify a Plaid Cybertruck which is $15k - $45k more expensive? Windings and brakes? As you suggest, that’s not really a $20k upgrade.
The whole quad motor will cost $20-30k more, because of a extra motor is absolute nonsense.
So you can be satisfied in knowing that, at least from a physics and engineering standpoint, those price predictions have no base in reality. How Tesla tries to market the extra performance or functionality is a somewhat different matter,
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