Great Scott! Tesla hides 'Back to the Future' Easter egg on app

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The latest Tesla Easter egg discovered this weekend is expertly hidden deep within the electric car's mobile phone app. It's making Tesla-owning Back to the Future fans scream"Great Scott!"

The 1985 classic sci-fi film starring a very young Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown is all about time traveling in a classy old DeLorean. Tesla's Model S, X, and 3 aren't time machines, but they get close.

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In the app when the car is has 121 miles of battery range left, you click the battery icon and Back to the Future mode takes over, turning it into a Model X with the same falcon-wing doors as the DeLorean DMC-12. That number is significant: 1.21 gigawatts of power sends Doc into a tizzy. Read more...More about Tesla, Back To The Future, Easter Egg, Delorean, and Tech

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