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"Ludicrous Speed" For Tesla's Model S Means 0-60 MPH In 2.8 Seconds
Automobile Magazine, writes reader Eloking, reports that the highest-end of the Tesla line has just gotten a boost upward, thanks to a new "Ludicrous Speed" mode:
In combination with a newly optional 90-kWh battery pack, this new mode brings 0-60 mph acceleration down to 2.8 seconds (from a quoted 3.2 seconds for the P85D model). This larger battery pack is offered as an upgrade from the existing 85-kWh model, creating new 90, 90D, and P90D models.
It doesn't come cheap, though: this isn't just a firmware update to download. For P90D owners, the upgrade costs $10,000 (including the larger battery); P85Ds can be upgraded for half that price.
Are you even trying anymore, editors?
"Ludicrous speed, NOW!!!"
Eat your heart out Mel Brooks.
sues for prior art.
Now the fag marriage is legal, I can speed out of the US at even faster speed.
Make it so!
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An article on CNN has a few more details.
Their next generation, out in four years, will offer "Maximum Plaid." No, really.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
What caused the recent Slashdot outage, was it your upstream CMS going down?
Somehow I get the feeling that this $10K upgrade will just get me a bit more smoke and rubber left on the road. Just how was this tested? What am I likely to really achieve on a local highway and with stock tires (presumably while steering clear of cops and any other nearby traffic)?
No-time Toulouse. The story of the wild and lawless days of the post-Impressionists.
Hmmm, $10,000 so I can get to 60 mph .4 seconds faster than before. Unless I'm street racing or having a douche-driver-day, I'm not sure i see the value when it's acceleration is already way past anything else available.
New Tesla Model S P90D “Ludicrous Speed” Goes 0-60 MPH in 2.8 Seconds
were reported on in Science News, my boss and I were talking about the implications and our first thought (his actually) was drag racers [wikipedia.org]. The power mass densities (different than energy density) was insane. You could build a car in literally tens of kg that could accelerate at 10g's!
That's gotta have some interesting ramifications when you are driving on a slope, especially if you are accelerating over a small rise in the road.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOO! Mooooo cows MOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!
Who cares about speed and acceleration anymore.
This might ignite a firestorm among ICE car vendors.
Now if only we had a car analogy.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Yes, but how long will it take to go round our track?
I come here for the love
This is NOT an old-school rear wheel drive with essentially an open diff and sloppy suspension. The car could theoretically apply exactly the maximum amount of power possible before causing wheelspin, to each wheel, continuously adjusting them all simultaneously until you let off the pedal. Given enough power it might even be possible to accelerate /almost/ as fast as you can stop. So, if it can go 60-0 in 104 feet with those tires...
Tesla vs Hellcat back in January
Also, if you're only going zero to [the speed limit] and you're on a highway with little to no traffic, I've never heard of a U.S. state that has a law against "accelerating too fast" as long as you aren't racing another vehicle and you don't break traction for an extended period of time or commit some other moving violation in the process.
But, no, you won't get 2.8 on a road with sand/gravel on it.
Here's an idea. You can do one more Google search before you leave home.
In real life, how fast do cars actually run in cities?
Slower than a bicycle.
Peak oil, solved.
If the battery could discharge in sections, a first stage could be shed like a recyclable booster rocket to reduce the weight.
With the price of those batteries, I doubt they'll make them too easy to remove though. It would be a major pain if people started stealing them. I guess the batteries had better have some embedded serial numbers.
Finally, a car I can drive straight up the sides of buildings.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You can't do this much before the batteries overheat and the whole system gets throttled. Would be a neat hat trick to scare your date though.
0-60 in 2.8 seconds, followed by a 4 hour charge. No thanks. I'll gas up.
an ill wind that blows no good
All for spaceballs reference
..."Inconceivable" mode on the P100D.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
You want the torque and power curve of an electric motor but the convenience of tanking up with kerosene?
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com...
Mostly random stuff.
I was just about to ask for the time it takes to accelerate to 100 km/h but I see you yanks have already given in to the metric system by choosing 60 mph (96.56 km) as the upper reference.
Nice acceleration.
But the car still looks shit inside. The outside is ok, unremarkable. Pretty average like every 20k lower middle class car. But sorry, the inside doesn't look like a 100k car. More like a cheap Japanese car from the 80s. No lux at all. No interior option (aside from choosing terrible tan or horrible grey seats instead of black and which ugly plastic "veneer" should be used) at all. Massage function? Variable seats? Wood veneer and leather options? Want to see what a 100k car can offer on the lux side? Head over to Bentley (for example). Cool tech but not worth 100k.
At least I hope so, because if that's a serious post, you need help.
I get that there may still be efficiency gains over pushing a gas-fired car to 60mph in ~2 seconds, but doesn't this kind of wasteful driving sort of defeat the purpose of having an electric vehicle? Meanwhile you're using up highly specialized materials that simply aren't needed, if all you want to do is show off. --Legal.Troll (dodging his -1 Karma)
So let me see if I have this right. I pay taxes to a government so that they can subsidize rich people who buy electric "green" vehicles, costing the same as a fully loaded S class Mercedes, and who then turn around and use the savings for an optional $10,000 battery pack upgrade to shave an extra six tenths of a second off their 0-60 time? It's nice to see that our politicians have our priorities straight. Meanwhile the middle class is still shrinking, unemployment, underemployment and student debt are ruining the American dream for young people and the public debt continues to spiral out of control. What's wrong with this picture?
if my maths is correct 0 - 60 in 2.8 seconds is 9.5 m/s2 just less than the 9.8 of freefall.
What's next? Is he going to add things that make sparks with the wheels? Baseball cards in the wheel spokes? Tassels on the wing mirrors?
Truly, this is the card for the child with too much money, and nothing else. I will laugh extra hard whenever i see one going down the street from now on, i'll ask them if they got the new doctor who drive in their warp core.
Fast as a 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4
Now THAT is a rational argument for an electric car; emissions are not; usually those increase with electric propulsion...electricity comes from COAL lol
0 to 60mph @ 2.8sec isn't actually speed, but acceleration!?
In the initial run, it was rather obvious the Hellcat driver was, shall we say...new at this sort of thing.
If you do a quick search (I'm too lazy to do your work for you) it is the top Google result.
The Hellcat was also under rated by Fiat and in reality, the detuned version for sale now is around 750hp, crank.
Rumor has it that the engine was making closer to 800+ before the Engineers came to thier senses..at the bequest of the marketing droids of course, since you cant have anything as pedestrian as a Challenger usurping the spotlight from the flagship model (Viper).
People want their expensive penis extensions regardless of whether they are powered by decomposed dinosaurs or by a fusion reactor in the sky. Is it still green?
Considering a Veryon has the same 0-60 speeds, a 27 gal tank, and can only go 50 miles on that tank a full throttle I would definitely say that this is still green.
The alternative is not to drive it like a normal car, but to drive a gas powered supercar. People may look for green ways of enjoying their hobby, but no one will abandon their hobby altogether because it isn't green.
If you are going to be driving wastefully, doing it as efficiently as possible still makes sense.
I *WANT* one of these. Madly and desperately. Tesla heard my only objection left: All Wheel Drive. I have been maneuvering my finances to buy one since the AWD version came out. Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
i don't care if it takes 5 minutes to get up to 60mph, what I want is a 400 mile range.
Now, I am almost willing to mortgage my soul to get one of these. (I would definitely NOT mortgage my soul, it is a figure of speech designed to show how much I want one of these.)
It's more like a reverse mortgage on your soul--you get cash now and the use of your soul for the rest of your life.
Once you die, I will take possession of your soul and it will be mine - mine! - for all Eternity! MuwahahaHA!
Sincerely Yours,
The Devil
How did we get this deep into the comments with no occurrence of either the word "Kessel" or "parsec"?