No More Regrets: Tesla Will Now Upgrade Your Ludicrous-less P90D For an Insane Price

Steph Willems
by Steph Willems

For Tesla Model S P90D owners who have concluded they won’t soil their firm, supportive seats if given the chance to go faster, well, they’re in luck.

Tesla Motors is offering to bring “Ludicrous” mode to owners of the top-end Model S as an aftermarket upgrade, assuming their wallet can match their need to blow everything else out of the water.

Newly listed in Tesla’s online gear catalogue, the upgrade will cost you $10,000 before tax and associated labor. But, if you made the mistake of buying a P90D that stops at “Insane” and have thought of nothing else since, the Ludicrous lifestyle can now be yours.

Tesla says the upgrade will pare the stock P90D’s 0-60 mile per hour times down by 10 percent, making the run in 2.8 seconds and passing the quarter mile in 10.9.

Spending money on personal consumption is less enjoyable if you can’t brag about it, so Tesla will make sure your P90D reflects its newfound puissance. Tesla states that “vehicles will receive updated badging to P90D where the underline denotes the LUDICROUS upgrade.”

The electric automaker began offering the headline-generating upgrade on its now defunct P85D last summer.

Going Ludicrous involves installing an advanced “smart fuse” and swapping the steel main pack contacter with one made of an ultra-modern alloy. This allows the vehicle to increase power output from its battery from 1300 amps to 1500 amps.

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  • Ericb91 Ericb91 on Mar 23, 2016

    Sounds more like a Tesla fundraiser. The true cost on the upgrade can't be more than $2,000, right?

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    • Krhodes1 Krhodes1 on Mar 25, 2016

      @PeriSoft Bob's Discount Furniture. Locations all over the Northeast. They will sell you a couch and chair for that price in leather. It is absolute garbage, but it is just about as good leather as you find in a cheap car. And by cheap, I mean anything under $50K.

  • Nickoo Nickoo on Mar 23, 2016

    Its so sad to see that tesla cant develop a 2 or 3 ratio reduction gear. This car wouldbe absolutely incredible if they had the know how. Breaking into the 10s is no joke. Breaking into the sub 10.5s would be legendary.

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    • SCE to AUX SCE to AUX on Mar 24, 2016

      @nickoo - Yes, but no EV maker produces a car with more than a one-speed reduction gear, except for Detroit Electric. If it's so simple and awesome, maybe you can tell us why they don't do it.

  • 285exp 285exp on Mar 24, 2016

    How much for just the badge?

  • Bjchase55 Bjchase55 on Mar 24, 2016

    If you want this upgrade do you have to contact Tesla and state "I want to go plaid"?

    • Bubbajet Bubbajet on Mar 24, 2016

      Rumor has it that "Plaid" will be the next speed bump after Ludicrous mode. See Spaceballs for reference.

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