Posted on 11/17/2017 8:44:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Capable of going from 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds, the Tesla Roadster would be the first such car ever to break the two second mark, the entrepreneur said at a launch near Los Angeles.
He also said it would climb from 0 to 100 mph in 4.2 seconds and clear a quarter mile in 8.9 seconds. "This will the first time that any production car has broken 9 seconds in the quarter mile,"
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Refuel and new tires in 12 seconds.
So, how many 1/4 mile runs can you do before the battery goes dead?
Exactly. He was supposed to be introducing his new electric semi-truck, which is already being panned by even the lapdogs at CNBC
It's just the same at every quarterly press conference, he slides over the dismal production and sales numbers with talk about his rockets, space colonies, expectations about continued subsides in the new tax rip-off bill...oh, wait...what?
there is no top speed really
it is all LIMITED by other factors
I guarantee he could get this to do 1000 if he really wanted
But how will it do driving to Lake Tahoe in a blizzard with chains on the tires?!
I’ll keep my 68 427, 4 speed Corvette.
How much is this one going to cost taxpayers? :>(
The whole point of "supercars" is not to be sold but as technology demonstrators. Battery life is the key limiting factor for electric vehicles taking over.
Simple...For the same reason we need AR15’s with a 100 round mag....
Preach it, Brother!
“Production” is relative here. Tesla is having production ramps issues on their lines.
What happened to the Dodge Demon?
about as fast as your car when it runs out of gasoline.
Frankly, that’s when I love having the gas-electric car. Just sitting in traffic, no engine noise, easy to inch forward, not burning off dollars.
The tank can be filled in 5 minutes but the batteries, not so much.
Not that hard to make a fancy car when you get billions in government subsidy.
A 200KWH battery pack will cost ~$60K. You can buy a lot of gas for $60K. Probably not a lot of takers until they can get the cost down.
“genuine breakthrough. “
Break through? Make it light and add more very expensive high density batteries, and zero storage space. Yeah big breakthrough. Pretty sure a highschooler coulda figure that one out.
A typical charging station, which is supposed to replace gas stations, would have to be able to produce enough electricity in a day to power 21,000 homes!
NOT SUSTAINABLE.
I gotta fact check this number but it is what I have heard.
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