Koenigsegg gets into Tesla tuning through a partnership with Unplugged Performance
A new collaboration involving hypercar firm Koenigsegg and Tesla tuner Unplugged Performance will lead to the previous manufacturing aftermarket components for Tesla automobiles.
Unplugged Performance is one of the most popular Tesla tuners and aftermarket accent makers.
It is also the a single with the closest connection with the automaker.
Motor vehicle tuners and modification businesses are not always appreciated by the unique automaker.
It’s not normally the AMG tale in which the tuners conclude up currently being acquired by Mercedes-Benz to formally make tuned and modified variations of their autos.
But Unplugged Performance is as shut as it receives.
It was authorized for official automobile assistance by Tesla and the automaker also appeared to have specified UP early entry to the Model S Plaid previous year.
The company tends to make a big go by partnering with Koenigsegg, a legendary hypercar organization, to make parts for Tesla automobiles.
The new partnership is termed UP x KAM:
“We are proud to announce a manufacturing partnership between Unplugged Performance x Koenigsegg Superior Manufacturing (UP x KAM). Koenigsegg, the world’s primary Hypercar maker, is now creating Unplugged Efficiency tuning items for your Tesla.”
It consists of carbon fiber parts that are included to UP’s presently comprehensive lists of aftermarket Tesla sections:
“UP x KAM carbon fiber elements are created solely from Koenigsegg’s proprietary carbon fiber weave which is pre-impregnated with epoxy resin, precision laptop or computer reduce to the geometry of the merchandise, assembled by hand by artisans working with specialised tooling, pressurized, and temperature optimized in an autoclave, extracted, precision trimmed, sanded, precision bonded, completed in a UV obvious coat and topped with a distinctive collaboration sticker indicating the producing partnership.”
Ben Schaffer, CEO of Unplugged Efficiency, commented on the new partnership:
“We are grateful to husband or wife with the ideal engineers and factories in the earth who share in our vision and mission. Koenigsegg is an iconoclastic international leader in innovation and Hypercar grade manufacturing. They also transpire to share our beliefs of balancing sustainability and driving excitement in harmony. The long run of car or truck enthusiast society relies upon on embracing the finest of craftsmanship, the most effective of technological innovation, and by no means shedding sight of developing automobiles that we really like to generate. Alongside one another with Koenigsegg we want to excite Tesla owners and to lead toward an interesting electrical future for the auto tradition we like.”
UP presented a record of the very first UP x KAM items that arrived out of the partnership with Koenigsegg:
- Tesla Product 3 – Substantial Efficiency Trunk Spoiler, Autoclaved Dry Carbon, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Distinct
- Tesla Design 3 – Significant Downforce Trunk Spoiler, Autoclaved Dry Carbon, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Apparent
- Tesla Product 3 – Ascension-R Front Vast Fender Established, Autoclaved Dry Carbon, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Very clear
- Tesla Product Y – Substantial Efficiency Trunk Spoiler, Autoclaved Dry Carbon, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Clear
- Tesla Product S – Extensive Tail Trunk Spoiler, Prepreg Carbon Fiber, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Obvious
- Tesla Product X – Trunk Spoiler, Dry Carbon, UP x Koenigsegg Collaboration, Gloss Clearcoat
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