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If there is a thing that makes the Tesla Model S is particularly fascinating is the migliramento performance by updating via OTA software . In this way a few weeks ago the US company had cut a tenth of a second from the already impressive acceleration time from 0 to 100 km / h of its electric car.
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An update via OTA (Over-The-Air) is no more or less what anyone does on your smartphone when you release a new version of operating system: you click on a button, and the device does it all. With the Model S is exactly the same thing : if you leave it in the garage at night, you click a button and it is left to download the update. The next morning, without any need for intervention by the owner or a mechanic, the performance will be improved.
The latest in order of time was announced directly by the CEO of the Californian, Elon Musk, from his Twitter account that he made an appointment next Thursday to unveil “a software update via OTA” that “will cover the whole range of the Model S,” able to “put an end to the anxiety of autonomy” .
The range anxiety (in English “range anxiety”) is one of the elements that still relegate electric cars in a market niche : often their riders has In fact, the fear of being stopped on the roadside with dead batteries. When it runs out of fuel a vehicle with petrol or diesel you can always go around armed tank in search of a distributor. But with an electric car you can not bring back an extension of a few kilometers in the hope of finding an outlet in which thread it.
According to official Tesla, when the Model S has a range ‘autonomy that varies between 335 km version with battery of 60 kWh to 435 km of the 85D twin-engine variant. Hard to imagine on what aspects will speak the software update on the electric car US: it could be a modaltà able to optimize fuel consumption by “cutting” some onboard systems , as now occurs on many smartphones when the battery is running out of energy. To know just wait a few days: the Tesla press conference has been scheduled for Thursday, March 19 at 9:00 hours of California (15.00 in Italy).
The company’s Palo Alto certainly needs to remain at the top from the technological point of view to parry incoming blows from the competition, which both globally and in specific markets is recovering positions. As just one example, in China a competitor worthy threat to Tesla is represented by BYD , a Shenzhen company financed, among others, by Warren Buffett.
Electric Car BYD e6 – Credits: Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 / anthonares
BYD plans to become dominant in China in the field of electric cars , and do just that in recent days has announced its plans for increased production Battery: in each of the next three years, the Asian company will add 6 gigawatts / hour to the current output of 10 GWh per year, with the goal of getting to 34 GWh by 2020.
This way, BYD would go to place on a par with Tesla as the main producer of batteries for electric vehicles . The US company, through the project Gigafactory, it aims to reach its full capacity in 2020, with an output of 35 GWh. A competition of this type will certainly be a challenge for the individual companies, but will undoubtedly be a great advantage for the development of the industry globally.
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