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To: RFEngineer
Tesla, to the extent they sell a large number of cars, will be single-handedly responsible for congestion and traffic jams with drivers consistently driving 5-10MPH below the speed limit

There is a pretty good speed penalty. The way I read the charts, a 30 minute 200 mile supercharger fill up may only get 100 miles or so driving 70 mph into a 20 mph wind.

236 posted on 08/19/2013 8:20:00 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: EVO X

“There is a pretty good speed penalty. “

Further, I want to see it’s performance at 70mph with 4 x 250 lbs of good old American lardass on a summer day with the AC blasting.

Let’s add a small boat in tow and a cooler full of beer in the trunk.

Yeah, I know........

Another thing I’m curious about is the suspension. With the “high efficiency tires” that means they’ll be hard as rocks so the suspension will have to be able to take ever bump with no help from the tires, otherwise that thing will ride like a Radio Flyer with tubeless tires.


237 posted on 08/19/2013 1:12:20 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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