{"id":90922,"date":"2014-02-08T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=90922"},"modified":"2014-02-08T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T06:44:03","slug":"all-wheel-drive-tesla-model-s-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/02\/08\/all-wheel-drive-tesla-model-s-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"All-wheel-drive Tesla Model S Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"All-wheel-drive<\/a><\/p>\n

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has officially confirmed that an all-wheel-drive variant of the hugely popular Tesla Model S electric car is set to be launched later this year or early next year. The release of the all-wheel-drive variant is likely to fall in line with the release of the Tesla Model X SUV whenever that may be.<\/p>\n

The information was revealed by Musk during a meeting in Amsterdam where Tesla Motors has its European headquarters. However, the entrepreneur didn\u2019t just end with the confirmation of a Tesla Model S with all-wheel-drive, he also revealed a few new nuggets of information we weren\u2019t entirely expecting. <\/p>\n

First off, Musk confirmed that the Californian based electric automaker is currently working on higher-capacity batteries which will extend the range of the Model S as well as future Tesla cars including the Model X as well as its entry-level electric car due in a few years\u2019 time. Additionally, new seats are being created to improve comfort for all occupants.<\/p>\n

Another nice bit of news is that in a few weeks, Tesla Model S owners will be able to upgrade to Version 6.0 firmware enabling them greater control over suspension setting, real-time traffic data along with a selection of other improvements and tweaks. It goes without saying that this is one of the best advantages of having a car of this sort as it can be updated just like your smartphone.<\/p>\n

Finally, Musk spoke about his proposed giga-factory. This factory could reduce battery costs by about 30 per cent and as much as 40 per cent!<\/p>\n

[Via Left Lane News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has officially confirmed that an all-wheel-drive variant of the hugely popular Tesla Model S electric car is set to be launched later this year or early next year. The release of the all-wheel-drive variant is likely to fall in line with the release of the Tesla Model X SUV whenever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":89853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,19164,883,1554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}