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Article: United States: Tesla Motors Offers Powertrain Upgrade.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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Byline: prashant03
Tesla Motors released a much-awaited revision to the transmission in the all-electric Roadster, and in typical software upgrade fashion, the company is calling it Powertrain 1.5, as Autopia reports. The new one-speed Borg-Warner transmission "joins a stouter power inverter and revised engine in a package said to deliver 30 percent more torque and 10 percent more range."
Installing this update is a little more complicated than, say, patching Windows Vista (as complex as that can get at times). For the 27 Roadsters that are already tearing up the streets, theyll ...