Posted on 01/20/2015 11:57:06 AM PST by LogicDesigner
Say "P85D" to Tesla owners and fans, and you will see the drooling and twitching and heavy breathing and lustful stares--and more drooling--that Tesla's fastest, highest-performance electric car brings.
The same happens with the word "Hellcat" for fans of high-powered Hemi V-8 performance.
Now, courtesy of two owners--each convinced that their car is the fastest, baddest beast on the road--we know what happens when the two cars face off on the drag strip.
Two days ago at Palm Beach International Raceway, a Tesla Model S P85D and a 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat competed in the traditional quarter-mile drag race.
Hint: It's no contest. At all. And the quieter car wins decisively.
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And, now, can we please stop with the "wimpy electric golf car" stuff?
(Excerpt) Read more at greencarreports.com ...
“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.
Maybe his balls were deflated........................
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.
Amen!
Wait. This isn’t another Dateline NBC produced story?
LOL
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.
The battery car has 691 hp.
“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.
The Dodge had a bad start and was trying to restart. What was the time fer the e-car?
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?
Correct. It’s all in the trap speed, which for an electric vehicle should never change much.
LOL!!
“The ‘driver’ of that particular muscle car “can’t”..
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.
How much is the Tesla?
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Before the race, did the jockey of the Tesla stick some cubes of sugar into the other guys tank?
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