A motorcycle will beat a Stingray in the quarter mile too. I would take a ZR1 over the Stingray, though.
The first race the corvette driver was sleeping at the wheel.
Tesla Versus Chevy Volt: Which one burns up the fastest?
That’s a nonsense article. Electric cars have been quicker off the line for ages, but they just are not practical for racing in general, never mind daily driving. There was a time when steam cars were way quicker off the line than internal-combustion-engine cars as well, but that doesn’t mean we ought to call for a return to steam automobiles.
Electricity rules!
Pretty impressive for an electric car though. Can I go for a test drive?
Which one wins in having to be propped up with tax dollars? It is a tie.
For 90 grand, that Tesla should be able to do at least one thing that’s impressive.
A friend in High School had a Dad with a mid-70s Corvette, and he let us drive. But only around his private property, not out on public roads. But hey, I drove a Corvette. It’s weird how close to the deck you are.
“The Tesla Model S on the other hand is a car for eco-minded executives that worry more about the effects of burning fossil fuels than of the ability to burn rubber.”
So they buy an overpriced car that runs on coal. Brilliant!
Vette 0-60 time:3.8 secs.
2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5S 0-60 time:3.7 seconds.
Vette quarter mile: 12.4 secs @ 113.7 mph
Tesla quarter mile: 12.6 secs @ 102.6 mph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/corvette-stingray/2014/comparison-test1.html
So the Tesla would have the advantage right out of the light.
That works out to a fuel cost of $0.245 a mile for a gasoline engine and a cost of $0.0362 a mile for a Tesla (Tesla assumed a cost per kwh of 11 cents).
Pretty interesting.
Tesla driver jumped the start on the first race.
Electric cars have some serious torque. But in a longer race, Vette wins every time.
Neither wins, both run out of fuel.
Yeah let’s go best of ten or twenty 1/4 miles.
Both are gubmint motors.Who cares? I sure as hell don’t.
I do think it’s impressive that a 5-7 passenger sedan can keep up with any Corvette, especially considering the vehicle weight. So the Corvette should be handicapped by 5*150 lbs of ballast and the Tesla would win easily.
Put these two vehicles in a safe storage situation, hermetically sealed, dry nitrogen, the best way for long term stasis storage.
And then 30 years from now, or 50 years, what would each car be worth?
All I see in the future is the only vehicles people will want are those than can be as off the grid as much as possible, no tracking, no GPS, NO Onstar, can run on moonshine or bio diesel so one does not have to be tied to any form of filling station. And also is highly EMP proof, or has a minimal amount of circuitry to be fried.
For some reason I keep thinking steam will be the answer, pellet fuel made at home, either reciprocating steam or steam turbine, or steam to hydraulic powerplants.
Hydrostatic drives driven by a steam engine. Or steam turbine to electric much like a locomotive.
And then some inventor comes up with a DIY formula of a super fuel pellet, somewhat like the fuel logs in Back to the Future III.
I think cars and trucks in the future will survive by being LOW tech than HIGH tech. Because China has all the tech, the US has almost none, China refuses to sell to US.