Boosting internal combustion engines may seem trivial by now, but part- and all-electric powertrains are another story: too new, too risky. Canadian tuner shop Ingenext decided to break the mold at last and launched a power tune for the Tesla Model 3.
From the way it looks, the engineers have found a way to reverse-engineer the engine management logic Tesla cars use to set up the operational parameters for their engines. Evtun.com worked on something similar a while ago, but that team ended up with a modest upgrade that allegedly allowed for faster charging and prolonged battery service life. Ingenext, on the other hand, has managed to get a horsepower increase.
The mod is called Ingenext Boost 50 and can be installed only on the Long Range AWD version of the Model 3, cutting its sprint time down from 4.4 seconds to just 3.8 seconds. Aside from those fifty extra horses, it adds a Drift Mode similar to that Tesla reserves for its Performance lineup.
The application can be purchased and downloaded online for U.S. $1,100. The official Tesla Software Boost costs $2,000.
What is also interesting, Ingenext offers another upgrade for U.S. $2,250 that turns the Model 3 into a Performance model purely in terms of power, giving it +150 hp (112 kW). This one necessitates visiting the service center directly, however. Tesla ships the $8,000 Performance Package instead that also includes sports-grade suspension, brakes and tires.