All of the company's 60 kWh cars will be built with Supercharger hardware, too.

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Tesla is also revealing a small Easter egg today: all 60 kWh cars have been and will be built with Supercharger hardware included.

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Today we got to see the thing in action at the Pepcom event here at CES. The hardware is a small black plastic box that should plug into most cars sold in the US after 1996.

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Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.

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But Tesla has shown the route to making electric cars not just mainstream but superior to their fossil fueled counterparts by emulating Apple and controlling the hardware, software and network.

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