Tesla P85D - Insane Mode Acceleration Reactions

[rhoenix]

I think it's a bit of a hallmark for an electric car to be capable of 0-60mph within 3.2 seconds.

It's also hilarious to spring on people who don't know what to expect, even when you outright tell them.

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[Josh]

I am so going to get one of those. Maybe not 2017, but 2018 at the latest.

The acceleration doesn't surprise me. When I went over to safety, I had an electric golf cart. Top speed was for shit, but it could out-drag just about everything else at the plant. I always would take off by floorboarding it, and the initial surge would whipcrack your whole body.

Miss that stupid old clunker.

[Lys]

This doesn't really surprise me, electric traction is capable of insane amounts of torque. That's why diesel locomotives are actually diesel-electric, the diesel engine doesn't drive the wheels, rather it powers an electric motor, and that is what drives the wheels.

[LadyTevar]

Even with the Tesla Roadster, their first model, they had to mechanically/electronically limit the amount of torque the engine could produce, because it was beyond the safety limit of the chasis. The engine's torgue would literally have torn the car apart if unchecked.

I saw this video on FB, and I was giggling like a maniac. I have GOT to get a test-drive now, just to use the INSANE button.

[Batman]

That's public perception for you. Electric cars used to have low top speed and endurance compared to conventional cars (which to a large extent is still true today) so their acceleration must suck too, despite the fact that there's no actual connection between those.
Especially as 3.2 from one to 60 would have been impressive for Bruce Wayne budget fossil burners not all that long ago.

[LadyTevar]

Detective, I don't think there's a 'fossil-burner' NOW that can do 0-60 in 3.2

[Josh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fa ... celeration

Tesla is actually 26th on the list.

[LadyTevar]

Ahha
Things I didn't know yesterday. I wonder how they all compare price-wise?

[Josh]

I'm not a car guy, but I do know that Porsche and Lamborghini blow Tesla out of the water price-wise, and that's the current 70k model. The 35k coming up shortly is supposed to have that same acceleration capacity.