Tesla really ‘screwed the pooch’ a few years ago during a Florida hurricane.
In a moment of benevolence they gifted their short-range car owners with a temporary software ‘patch’ to extend the range X2 or X3 to help them get out of harm’s way farther. As I remember, the hardware set was identical in the X1 range cars and the X2&X3 range ones, but the sticker price differences were wildly different.
People were REALLY upset when they found that they were paying a lot more for essentially a couple of lines of computer code.
No doubt some code hackers got right to work on that issue
Intel used to spend a bit more to do SX chips vs their DX faster ones in the 90s. The SX ones actually took more manufacturing processes to cripple the chip.
It’s nothing new.