https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-gear-raced-tesla-100d-against-mercedes-sedan-000033878.html ‘Top Gear’ raced a Tesla 100D against a Mercedes sedan, and you’ll totally believe what happened next October 18, 2017 Chris Mills BGR News
[image http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/top-gear.png Mercedes ice ] At this point, drag-racing a Tesla Model S P100D against (insert gas-powered car here) is a foregone conclusion. The Tesla’s electric motors can produce massive amounts of torque right off the line, which means that any gas engine isn’t going to come close to the 0-60 times. But Top Gear wanted to thoroughly test the limits of the Tesla’s speed, so they put it up against a Mercedes E63 AMG 4-door sedan, the answer to every engineer’s question of “how far is too far.” The result really isn’t surprising at all: the Tesla takes the Mercedes by a couple car-lengths. It beat it off the line, and there wasn’t really a hope of a comeback at any point. If the race had been twice as long, the Mercedes may well have caught up — electric cars suck at extremely high speeds, where air resistance is more of a factor — but over a standard drag-race distance, it’s humbling to see just how fast the Tesla is. The video did showcase one other thing, though: Tesla’s aren’t nearly as reliable or intuitive as the gas-powered cars. We’ve been conditioned by years of driving to expect certain controls and processes, and by all accounts, driving a Tesla is a big change. That showed up here, as the driver of the Tesla had to turn the car off and on again just to get it to start. [© yahoo.com] https://bgr.com/2017/10/18/tesla-p100d-drag-race-mercedes-e63-whoa/ ‘Top Gear’ raced a Tesla 100D against a Mercedes sedan, and you’ll totally believe what happened next October 18th, 2017 ... At this point, drag-racing a Tesla Model S P100D against [insert gas-powered car here] is a foregone conclusion. The Tesla’s electric motors can produce massive amounts of torque right off the … [video flash] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
