Tesla is really not fast at all...(really fast)

What is speed when soul is lacking?

 

Once sedans got into the 4 second 0-60 range I stopped caring. Everything is fast now.

 

Souless?

 

just a question.....in a 4 door car with 4-7 seats.....
- when was the last time anybody here went from 0-60 in the fastest time they could?
- when was the last time anybody here went from 0-100 in the fastest time they could?
- when was the last time anybody here went from 0-1/4 mile in the fastest time they could?
- when was the last time you did the 5 miles from the office to home in 45 minutes?

 

If you want fast and living on the edge buy a liter bike. Good way to move quick and get close to death if not actually reach it.

 

Utterly. Conveyer belt?

 

Washing machine?

 

I feel like it's going to put down a 9.3 on a good run. Other than that it's 9.5 all day

 

They may be fast accelerating, but they won’t go too far of you drive them quickly, and the handling can’t be great with all that weight. The styling is so boring too, who can get excited about how Tesla look if they are really ‘car-guys’

 

It's better because it comes with a manual transmission.......

 

Might want to double check this?

Also, the Rimac Concept One (one of the top EV supercars) is in the 9.9 range, so LaF is still faster
And the Nio ep9, fastest Nurburgring lap, 9.8... Might be faster than LaF but no definitive data

 

Agreed, after the first few hundred feet, top end is not so great. P100 D picks up 22mph from the 1/8 to the 1/4.

My F355 picks up 24.5mph from the 1/8 to the 1/4 and most people would consider it slow.

 

Hey! Washing machines are pretty cool!

 

Torque and speed are typically inversely proportional in electric motors. Electric motor designers try to always find a sweet spot depending on the application and in Tesla's case, it may have been launch acceleration (high stall torque) rather than top speed. Their curves however reveal something to brag about in how they have succeeded to maintain near stall torque levels over such a high RPM range. I tip my hat to them since I'm in the business of designing electric motors and actuators.

 

you might want to reconsider the handling comment - watching a Tesla at a bitumen motorkhna was gobsmacking - absolutely flat, smooth cornering. great example of chassis and suspension working with the power plant to get a terrific outcome.

 

The maximum torque in electric motors is typically achieved when the motor is stalled (not spinning) and pulling maximum current. As the motor turns to produce power, the torque drops.
When specifying a motor for an application, designers target certain performance parameters along the curve or in some cases, precise operating points (constant torque-speed applications like a pump or actuator). I'm guessing Tesla was aiming for high torque at low RPM for impressive off line acceleration.

 

As good as a 458/488, or 812? That’s what I would reference it against in the context of it being a fast car.

 

Does it do cottons and mixed at 30 degrees ?

 

I take my 12 year old 25k cl65 merced any days versus all those cars... this video is not of my car but with an ecu/tcu tune and some gearbox mod this what it does for 1/10 of the price of most cars in the list


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Sorry but you can't take a bunch of figures from all over the Internet and use them as a credible comparison. Wikipedia and zeroto60times are not primary sources, Wikipedia doesn't time cars, and it's information is as reliable or not as the sources it is gleaned from. Wikipedia and zeroto60 can cite each other in a circle of false information.

Manufacturers are not always reliable either, some consistently dial their figures up or down, and motoring magazines, while at least primary sources, can get different figures for the same car, and are sometimes fed optimised media cars, though this is getting rarer.

Aside from the super Proton the 911 CS being quoted as having the same time in this as a 488 GTB seems obviously wrong. I have reviewed both and the 488 is a much faster car. Manufacturers don't deal with quarter mile or 400m metres so much but the official figure for the 911 is 4.1 to sixty and 8.5 to 100 mph, compared with 3.0 to sixty and 8.3 to 125 (not 100) mph for the 488, suggesting a zero to hundred in the sixes for the 488. There is no way these cars come close to tying over 400m. Maybe a 911 Turbo S.

That aside, you just can't compare figures from Wikpedia with figures from Motor Trend, or whatever. All from one magazine, would have comparative credibility.