Tesla's New Base Model S And Model X Are $10,000 Cheaper, But There's A Catch

The new Model S and X Standard Range trims offer a 20 percent shorter driving range

up to 348 miles of range and the new Standard Range model gets up to 269 miles of range. That’s 79 miles , or about 23 percent less than the older model.

In addition, the new Standard Range models will understandably take a performance hit. Whereas the Model S can hit 60 mph in 3.1 seconds, the Standard Range model takes 3.7 seconds. For the Model X, that figure goes from 3.8 seconds to 4.4 seconds. Both are meaningful drops in the realm of performance testing, but in normal driving are unlikely to make a difference to drivers.Electrek

reports that they will also have the same sized battery packs as the longer-range vehicles, but the extra capacity will be locked away with software, as Tesla has done in the past Deliveries of the new models are set to begin in September and play into Tesla’s strategy of trading some of its profits in exchange for higher sales volumes.

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