Owners of Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles with two electric motors, for example, have the official option for a surcharge of $ 2,000 to activate the Acceleration Boost option, which adds about 50 horsepower to traction and reduces the acceleration time to 100 km / h to 3.8 seconds. There is already a third-party company, Ingenext, that offers these opportunities for almost half the price. As a bonus, there are unique functions such as the traction control algorithm in the controlled drift mode. The modification is achieved by installing a special adapter in the diagnostic connector of the on-board computer.

According to Electrek, the 2020.32.1 software update performed by Tesla itself has learned to identify such modifications, as a result of which the car owner will be forced to observe a notification on the display about the detection of an “incompatible vehicle modification” that could pose a danger of shutting down some on-board systems. The electric car continues to function as usual, but there are only two ways to get rid of the notification. Either return “everything as it was”, or wait for a new modification from Ingenext, which is still in development. The situation begins to resemble the reasoning that “what kind of detective story does without a chase? One is running, the other is catching up “…