Posted on 08/24/2016 8:56:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
The company says its new ‘Ludicrous’ P100D will be the ‘fastest car in the world’
Tesla Motors Inc. said it is offering its electric vehicles with a battery capable of going up to 315 miles on a charge, the first time a major auto maker has provided that much electric range in a vehicle.
The company unveiled new versions of its Model S sedan and Model X sport-utility vehicle with 100 kilowatt-hour batteries; previously the largest battery size was 90 kwh. The upgrade—which Tesla executives said was made possible by increasing the energy density of its battery packs—will allow the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company to sell a P100 version of those two vehicles with Tesla’s well-known “Ludicrous Mode.”
The 315-mile range sets a new benchmark for automotive engineers looking to lessen fears about so-called range anxiety, which drivers encounter when traveling longer distances in an electric car. Because electric cars must be plugged into charging ports that aren’t as readily available as gas stations, nor as fast, many car buyers have refused to even consider one.
Tesla’s Model S sedan will get the 315-mile range. The heavier SUV won’t be able to travel as far on a charge.
The P100D sedan will cost $134,500 and the SUV will cost $135,500. The current Tesla line starts at about $66,000 and can go roughly 200 miles on a single charge.
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The CAR has a 315 mile range. NOT the battery. Bad headline. Unless Superman throws it like a football.
TWO point five seconds.
New technology, new terminology. Keep up.
Oops, you’re right. My bad.
Call me when the car costs $30k.
At $135,000 it is still a rich man’s toy.
basically a city\commute car that can do 0-60 in 3.5 ? my first thought was “What’s the point”?
check out charging times
https://www.tesla.com/models-charging#/calculator
I’ll believe it when I see it. Someone is full of a lot of shit.
Article says the battery is capable of 315 miles on a charge. Where do you get just the car is and what's the difference? Aren't they one and the same?
The Tesla Model 3 is aiming for that: introductory base price of $36k.
Why? It’s just the next reasonable step after the Tesla Model S P86. Really, not much more than just putting a 20% higher capacity battery in the same car (which, yes, does 0-60 in 2.6s).
You could have saved some time and posted it takes an hour per 52 miles of charge so basically it needs to charge overnight to get that 315 miles then needs another 6 hours to do it again.
The car includes the battery. You don’t get the car without the battery. The battery should be good for about as long as a typical owner has it. (And the battery is crazy expensive.) Think “gas-driven car goes 400 miles on a tank of gas” - yes, the gas tank is included.
Yes, but the only other cars that can beat the acceleration cost over a million dollars and are no longer produced.
I had an EV. Charging it overnight was the norm. Rarely needed more than 100 miles range per day (have a gas SUV for that).
You can also plug the Tesla (and some other EVs) into a “supercharger” that will get you up to 80% “full” in about 20 minutes. They’re very expensive, so you won’t have one at home - but good chance it will be available for long freeway-based trips.
When I sold stereos in the last half of the 70’s, every remotely major company (Pioneer, etc.) sold high power component amps. Typically they were around 200 watts per channel RMS.
They didn’t sell many, but their existence was to show that the company was a serious contender in the market.
That’s how I see this car. And it’s not the battery. It’s the car.
Imagine detroit saying that they had a new gas tank that gave cars 600 mile ranges. Yeah, so they made a bigger gas tank. Or is it that the motor is more efficient or the car is lighter?
thanks.
I always wondered who was Free Republic’s vice president in charge of content presentation.
52 miles of range per one hour of charging IF you have the right amperage. Is that correct?
And then there’s there old warm versus cold climate question.
Are we talking Florida for the 315 mile range or are we talking Montana?
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