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>Teslas give you more of an Apple treatment. You will receive meaningful updates for years.

What is the cutoff for Tesla cars receiving software updates? Are the early models no longer supported?

At the moment even the earliest 2012/2013 Model S still receive updates. Those updates don’t contain all the fanciest features anymore, because they’re limited by the specs of the system (1), but you still get map updates, small improvements and gimmicks. The last update for the old cars introduced Tidal as a music streaming service (2), for example.

(1) Cars that old come with what’s called MCU0 or MCU1. They’re both running on a Nvidia Tegra chip. MCU2 uses Intel Atom and MCU3 uses AMD Ryzen. For 1500 euro you can update on any car from MCU0 and MCU1 to MCU2. Even the old 2012 models.

(2) Tidal was already available for newer cars with MCU2 since end of ‘21.

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