mother trucker, P85D 0-60 as quick as a McLarren F1

[cockerpunk]

2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test - Motor Trend

[onewhippedpuppy]

The upside to electric cars - massive torque, instantly. Very cool.

[David]

I really like this line from the article, "...the easiest way to flatten your retinas at a dragstrip isn't by just stomping on the right pedal. Instead, you draw your foot back and kick the living hell out of it. (I'm serious.) Your foot's flying start at the pedal means the potentiometer opens the battery's electron floodgate that much sooner, and without the teeniest tire chirp, the P85D accelerates at the highest rate the road's mu (its coefficient of friction) allows. It's surreally efficient. And it's so fast off the line that the slower-sampling rate of our two high-frequency GPS data loggers was actually missing some of the action; within the first 1/20th of a sec (not even the "O" in "One Mississippi") the car was already going 0.7 mph."


I wonder how it would do with 4 drag slicks

[aschen]

with 85kwh and 550kw peak power, it could flatten its battery completely in 9 min if you could keep it loaded for peak power somehow. That is what popped into my head when they suggested it might be good for 155 mph autobahn cruising. I think they would have to be pretty short cruises at that speed.


Anyways it is impressive performance, the power density and response of electrical system have been way above IC for some time now. Im patiently awaiting for the energy density to creep closer to parity as well

[greglepore]

They are amazing, but the silence while it happens is soulless.

[911SauCy]

Originally Posted by David

I wonder how it would do with 4 drag slicks

i believe they come on a set of 888's

should be enough to make the turn in the starbucks drivethru