Why you can't buy the Tesla Model S P85+ anymore
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- Eric Van Susteren
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Tesla Motors will discontinue the Model S P85+, the version of the luxury electric sedan that formerly topped the company's ranges for price and battery mileage.
The company will instead offer only the P85D, the dual-engine all-wheel-drive car that was named the fastest-accelerating sedan in the world. Furthermore, Tesla's lower-priced model with a 60-kilowatt battery won't be available in the dual-engine format. That leaves the single-engine versions of the Model 60 and 85 and the dual-engine versions: the Model S 85D and the P85D.
CEO Elon Musk did say during the third-quarter earnings call that some of the models would be discontinued to increase efficiency at the company's Fremont factory. A scheduled production pause to retool the factory took longer than anticipated and affected the production rate, causing Tesla to amend its annual production target to 33,000 from 35,000.
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Eric Van Susteren is the Digital Producer at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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