Tesla Fights Performance Hacks Electric Cars

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Tesla fights performance hacks electric cars.

For a few years now tesla. Typically giving your car a performance boost means taking it to the mechanic or an auto shop. Tesla is starting to fight back against owners who are hacking their cars to unlock a performance boost that the automaker is itself selling as a software update. Tesla s latest software update is blocking performance hacks in the model 3 and other electric cars.

The automaker won its case against an ex employee who sought whistleblower protections and was accused of hacking tesla s gigafactory. Electric vehicles have opened up a new front manufacturers like tesla can now create lower and higher performance versions of the exact same car using nothing but software. Not too long ago tesla released a 2 000 acceleration boost option for the model 3 dual. Tesla doesn t sell a software upgrade from its model 3 dual motor to its model 3 performance but the vehicles are virtually the same when it comes to hardware without the performance package.

Tesla wins lawsuit against whistleblower accused of hacks. With tesla s electric vehicles it can be as easy as installing a bit of software of course this has opened the door for third party companies like ingenext to design their own hacks that let drivers access features typically hidden behind a tesla paywall.