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Koenigsegg Is Now Making Aftermarket Tesla Parts, And They're As Expensive As You'd Think

The supercar maker teamed up with Unplugged Performance for the venture

Have you been feeling like your Tesla just isn’t getting you enough attention? Well, you’re in luck thanks to Koenigsegg. Yes, that Koenigsegg. No, the Swedish supercar manufacturer isn’t tuning Teslas, but it’s now making carbon fiber dress-up parts — and they aren’t as expensive as you’d think.

These parts are made possible by a manufacturing collaboration between Koenigsegg Advanced Manufacturing and a California-based Tesla tuner called Unplugged Performance.

The partnership — dubbed UP x KAM — means the carbon fiber specialist will produce aero parts for Tesla vehicles. It kicked off with the company making carbon fiber spoilers for the Tesla Models 3, Y, X, and S. They’re also producing wider front fenders as well as a “high-downforce” spoiler for the Model 3, specifically. That being said, the duo is promising to produce more parts later this year.

“We are grateful to partner with the best engineers and factories in the world who share in our vision and mission. Koenigsegg is an iconoclastic global leader in innovation and Hypercar grade manufacturing (…) Together with Koenigsegg we want to excite Tesla owners and to contribute towards an exciting electric future for the car culture we love,” Ben Scaffer, Unplugged Performance’s CEO, said.

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Have you been feeling like your Tesla just isn’t getting you enough attention? Well, you’re in luck thanks to Koenigsegg. Yes, that Koenigsegg. No, the Swedish supercar manufacturer isn’t tuning Teslas, but it’s now making carbon fiber dress-up parts — and they aren’t as expensive as you’d think.
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Koenigsegg is making carbon-fibre bits for Teslas

Want genuine Koenigsegg aero bits for your Tesla? Of course you do

In news that couldn’t be any more modern unless it came to you via TikTok, Koenigsegg is now making carbon-fibre aero parts for Teslas. That means an upstart, game-changing supercar manufacturer is making high-end bits to fit models from an upstart, game-changing electric car manufacturer.

As is customary with second paragraphs, it’s here that we need to point out a few technicalities. The first of which is that the carbon parts aren’t going directly to Tesla, but rather an aftermarket tuner called Unplugged Performance. And the second is that the carbon-fibre is actually coming from a company called Koenigsegg Advanced Manufacturing, which is still a Koenigsegg company, but not the one you’re thinking of.

In case you’re not familiar with Unplugged Performance, its stock in trade is taking Teslas – unarguably potent things in a straight line – and sort of finishing the job, as it were. Yes, it’s all well and good to make jokes about American cars not going around corners properly, but it’s rather less amusing when you’re steaming into a corner and discovering that, regardless of how clever software might be, it still can’t cheat physics.

But better suspension, brakes and so on are really only half the story. When we said that Unplugged finishes the job, it really is quite a bit more holistic than that. As the boss of Unplugged Performance told us a few years back: “When you order a Tesla, you go on a website and you choose options, and at a certain point you order what's considered a fully loaded car that has every option; our business starts where that process ends.”

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Koenigsegg is making carbon-fibre bits for Teslas

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Ten awesome used cars for the price of a new Tesla Model 3

It’s Britain’s best-selling EV for good reason. But who needs reason when there are used-car bargains to be had?

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Ten awesome used cars for the price of a new Tesla Model 3

It’s Britain’s best-selling EV for good reason. But who needs reason when there are used-car bargains to be had?
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Will There Ever Actually Be A Cheap Tesla?

The automaker keeps promising a budget model. Will it ever deliver?

Tesla has been promising an affordable mass-market EV for years. First it was a vague $30,000 concept, then the mythical $35,000 Model 3, and most recently the $25,000 model without a steering wheel or pedals. With the exception of the entry level Model 3's incredibly brief run, Tesla doesn’t exactly seem eager to follow through on any of these budget-minded promises. Why not?

Back in 2009, the only Tesla car to be found on actual roads was the aptly-named (and, at the time, recently introduced) Roadster. A prototype of the Model S had been revealed, but the final version wouldn’t reach customers for another three years. The Models X, 3, and Y were but a glimmer in the eye of a certain emerald enthusiast. Tesla was a tiny, niche automaker.

Yet, even in those early days, Elon Musk wanted to sell a cheap car. In fact, he announced plans for a cheap car: A starting price of $30,000, and a starting year of 2016. Maybe even 2015, if the tides were right and Mercury never entered retrograde.

In 2012, Musk and Tesla were still talking about that $30,000 car. It was supposed to launch just three years later, alongside the production version of the Model X. 2013 rolled by, and talk of the $30k EV didn’t stop.

By 2014, that entry-level sedan had gained a name: The Model 3. With the announcement, its price point was bumped up to the famed $35,000 MSRP that grabbed so many headlines. Maybe Tesla was just accounting for inflation since that initial 2009 announcement, or maybe the cost of batteries hadn’t come down as far as Musk expected.

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Will There Ever Actually Be A Cheap Tesla? - Jalopnik

Tesla has been promising an affordable mass-market EV for years. First it was a vague $30,000 concept, then the mythical $35,000 Model 3, and most recently the $25,000 model without a steering wheel or pedals. With the exception of the entry level Model 3's incredibly brief run, Tesla doesn’t...
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Here’s How Tesla Drivers Open Their Frozen Doors In the Winter

This is what Tesla Model 3 and Model Y drivers are doing to get their doors unstuck after they freeze

For the most part, door handles on cars have been perfected. You pull on them, and they open the door. Simple enough. It’s a great example of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

It seems most car companies making an EV didn’t get that memo – and the most egregious offender is Tesla.

Flush mounted door handles are all well and good, they help with the aerodynamics of a car – and an aerodynamic car is the name of the game when making EVs. But, it leaves a very curious issue. What happens when your car is frozen or crud gets stuck behind the door handle? Now you have no leverage to open it. What do you do?

The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y have manually opening flush-mounted door handles, unlike the Model S and Model X. Those cars have power door handles that are supposed to push through any obstruction.

Some Tesla owners really want papa Elon Musk to do something about the issue.

While an app or electrically powered door handle poppers would be the high-tech solution, Tesla came up with a more – let’s say – simplistic approach that is in the Model 3 manual.

Basically, you have to whack the son of a bitch.

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Here's How Tesla Drivers Open Their Frozen Doors In The Winter - Jalopnik

For the most part, door handles on cars have been perfected. You pull on them, and they open the door. Simple enough. It’s a great example of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
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Tesla sees order surge in light of gas costs, Model 3 and Y LR get price hikes

It was expected that the rising price of gas would push well-to-do buyers towards EVs. And it seems that's already happening in certain parts of the US this week.

According to a reported insider, talking to Electrek, Tesla has enjoyed a huge increase of orders this week, reportedly 100% more than last week. We can't verify the claim, but it stands to reason that Tesla would bear the fruit of increased EV orders, especially in the US, where it accounts for about 80% of the EV market.

To put things into perspective, Tesla's Models Y and 3 dominated the US market in January with orders for 18,549 (38.8% of all BEVs) and 13,604 (27% of all BEVs) cars.

While a big increase in orders sounds wonderful for Tesla, it won't help the automaker to actually push cars to the buyers. Currently still working from two factories (with the Gigafactories in Texas and Germany under production at the moment), Tesla has backlogged its most popular Model Y until September 2022, and the Model 3 until July 2022.

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Tesla sees order surge in light of gas costs, Model 3 and Y LR get price hikes

The two cars are up by $1,000 in the US. The jump in the price of nickel is the reason.
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