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Tesla P85D Destroys Dodge Challenger Hellcat On Dragstrip: Electric Car Thrashes 707-HP Hemi (Video)
Green Car Reports ^
| Jan 19, 2015
| John Voelcker
Posted on 01/20/2015 11:57:06 AM PST by LogicDesigner
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To: LogicDesigner
“That may indicate one reason why the electric luxury car thrashed the old-style gasoline muscle car so decisively: All four wheels are powered.”
From the article. I guess I misunderstood what they were saying. One motor each end.
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01/20/2015 12:13:34 PM PST
by
beelzepug
(You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Maybe his balls were deflated........................
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:13:57 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: LogicDesigner
That “race” looks like it was designed and run by Elon Musk himself. I know there are a lot of Musk/Tesla fanbois on this (and many sites), but so far, to me, Musk is just an effective carnival barker who separates investors from their money. The only thing he has ever produced is vaporware.
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:15:11 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(If the RINOs engineer the 2016 Primary for their guy, I will sit out the General for my guy.)
To: LogicDesigner
The Tesla ran a 17.46 quarter with a top speed of 82 mph. I had a Pontiac LeMans years ago that would do that.
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:15:12 PM PST
by
kjam22
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To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:15:18 PM PST
by
mylife
To: LogicDesigner
Wait. This isn’t another Dateline NBC produced story?
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:15:31 PM PST
by
McGruff
(We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
To: Red Badger
Maybe his balls were deflated........................ LOL
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:15:52 PM PST
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kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: cicero2k
1320 still. There’s videos of Hellcat Challengers running 11.2 @ 125. The Tesla ran a 114mph trap speed in the video which indicative of it’s true sustained power which is still a bit less than a 707HP gasoline engine.
To: skimbell
“It’ nonsense. A 700hp land rocket against a Osterblender car? The driver of the Dodge was goofing around spinning his wheels all the way down the track. The battery car ran OK but not 700 horse worth. Check the source.” The battery car has 691 hp.
To: 2ndDivisionVet; LogicDesigner
“Try taking that Tesla on a cross-country trip and then we see which of the two is practical.”
The only point that needs made.
“The gasoline muscle car is dead.”
Further proof of the wusification of America.
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01/20/2015 12:16:56 PM PST
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Slambat
To: LogicDesigner
The Dodge had a bad start and was trying to restart. What was the time fer the e-car?
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01/20/2015 12:16:59 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: LogicDesigner
Gay. The Tesla will always be gay. But this test is especially so. Lets have equal drivers next time. A Camry could have bested that guy in the Challenger.
Also, after the race, both of them should race from Vegas to Barstow. That should be easy enough, right?
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:17:41 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: skimbell
Correct. It’s all in the trap speed, which for an electric vehicle should never change much.
To: kjam22
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01/20/2015 12:18:13 PM PST
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mylife
To: Norm Lenhart
“The driver of that particular muscle car cant..
Anyone that ever played with RC cars knows what awesome potential electric has for power. Practicality is another issue.”
Exactly! Anyone with half a brain knows that electric motors are ideal prime movers since they have maximum torque at stall, and they intrinsically more efficient that IC engines. I remember when Jesse James put an electric motor in a 80’s Olds Cutlass and used Milwaukee 28volt tool batteries ( a lot of them) and drag raced it. The sucker was very fast! But here, you have a moron driving the Dodge so it isn’t a valid head to head race. As for practicality, Teslas today make excellent short-range commute cars, but that’s all. There are a lot of Teslas where I live (about fifteen miles from the Tesla plant), and they are used by people with enough money to afford them and short commutes to their offices in the Silicon Valley and in San Francisco. As for overall efficiency, since the electricity comes largely from natural gas-fired generating plants and you have line losses to get the juice to the plug, I doubt that today’s electric cars are more “efficient” than their IC engined counterparts.
Until we get a real breakthrough in energy density and recharge time in the batteries, electric cars are just expensive golf carts.
To: LogicDesigner
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01/20/2015 12:18:18 PM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Obadiah
“That ‘race’ looks like it was designed and run by Elon Musk himself. I know there are a lot of Musk/Tesla fanbois on this (and many sites), but so far, to me, Musk is just an effective carnival barker who separates investors from their money. The only thing he has ever produced is vaporware.” Sounds like sour grapes to me.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:18:55 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: LogicDesigner
Before the race, did the jockey of the Tesla stick some cubes of sugar into the other guys tank?
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posted on
01/20/2015 12:20:10 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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