Some of you guys better face it, the battery technology is ever expanding, becoming more efficient, smaller, lighter, without filling the tank at 80 bucks a crack every few days, not to mention not having thousands of moving parts, all of which wear out.
If I could afford one, I'd buy it, just to blow off the Vets, Mercedes/BMWs from light to light, just for kicks. This thing is like driving a full scale slot car. Lightening fast and very quiet.
How do you know what can’t touch what? All drivers are different, all tires are different, and all roads are different. Some days, that V8 Mercedes could probably blow the doors off the Tesla off the line depending on who is driving. Corvettes? They’re still a half-ton lighter than the Tesla; you’re not blowing those away, and a ZO6 will leave you in the dust. Battery technology has not gone anywhere significant in a century, and this latest government-subsidized example literally screams that to the world. Face it.
I’m holding out for the model powered by moon beams and unicorn farts.
“That’s all fine, but the fact is, the 550 Mercedes can’t touch the S from 0-60. “
But it sure can past, what, 40 miles or so? 0-60 is one thing, cruising is another. Besides, just who is stupid enough to shred their tires on every takeoff, not to mention the energy drain from the battery on such takeoffs greatly shortens the total distant the electric car can travel. The ONLY thing the electric car does better than an internal combustion engine is supply massive torque. If we as consumers were worried about that we would install MG sets into our cars and get that torque from an engine. Obviously, that high of torque isn’t that high on our priority list since we already have engines that supply the torque we need.
Electric Cars: A solution looking for a problem to solve.