The Tesla has a motor for each wheel. Put a Hemi on each wheel and see what the Dodge can do! That’s a CAR, baby!
The Tesla has two motors, not four.
The BMW i8 has a 3 cylinder gasoline engine rated at 231hp, along with an electric motor rated at 131hp.
The Tesla has a motor for each wheel. Put a Hemi on each wheel and see what the Dodge can do! That’s a CAR, baby!
Actually, I believe that the Tesla has only one motor which drives only the rear wheels, but the problem here with the Dodge isn’t horsepower, it’s traction. The Tesla has full torque at dead stop and does’t need a clutch or a transmission. Much easier for the driver to control wheel spin.
The four-wheel power concept, spreading the static-friction over four patches rather than two, provides an advantage right away. The fact that the rear wheels of the Hellcat had lost this static-friction immediately, because of wheelspin, also worked heavily against getting off the spot.
The Tesla was moving away like it was keyed to the road, toothed pinion gears running against a rack.
One of the problems with internal-combustion engines is that they have virtually zero torque at stall speed, making it necessary to have the engine turning at relatively high RPM, relying on slippage for the engine to get up to its optimal delivery of torque. Electric motors have near full delivery of torque at stall.
Wheelspin may look spectacular, but it is really much wasted energy.