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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.
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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.
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)?
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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'
This might ignite a firestorm among ICE car vendors.
Now if only we had a car analogy.
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Yes, but how long will it take to go round our track?
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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.
Now the fag marriage is legal, I can speed out of the US at even faster speed.
Except you aren't welcome anywhere. Better stick to your shack and your travel to the keyboard and the dual-purpose bucket.
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.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport supposedly does 0-100km/h (62mph) in 2.2 seconds. So you can get substantially faster acceleration than this Tesla, for a premium of a couple of $million. (I guess that makes this battery pack look like a bargain.)
Here's an idea. You can do one more Google search before you leave home.
Finally, a car I can drive straight up the sides of buildings.
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Yeah? Well I strapped some fucking rockets to my car and it went from 0 to 60 MPH in about 0.8 seconds. So fuck you.
Let me guess: It was a '67 Chevy Impala?
Yeah? Well I strapped some fucking rockets to my car and it went from 0 to 60 MPH in about 0.8 seconds. So fuck you.
Yes, but that was 0-60 straight up.
To win the race you need to move forward, and the largest piece left over from the explosion must cross the finish line.
Tesla has liquid battery cooling that can dissipate quite a lot of heat. It was quite difficult to hit throttling even during a race on a real racetrack (and impossible on regular public roads). And they've also reduced the throttling in recent software updates.
In re the Perl article the day of the outage... Slashdot is written in Perl. It went down, they probably spent the majority of that time looking up what $ and _ and so forth actually mean and do. Meantime, Rob's off somewhere chugging a beer and laughing his posterior off.
It's just a theory, mind you. :)
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You built bloodhound?
a) it takes about 25 minutes to charge, not 4 hours.
b) 375V * 1.5kA * 2.8s = 0.4375kWh. That is, it takes less than 0.5% of the total charge of the battery to do this.
..."Inconceivable" mode on the P100D.
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Ski and Hooper? Is that you?
Enjoy Russia.
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No, most places outside of the West still hate fags.
That doesn't mean "they" welcome fuckwits like the other Anonymous Coward - who's probably only welcome in a few dark recesses of the virtual world that value stupid and hatred as a contribution.
Tolerance for some things just makes sense. In an overcrowded world I extend that tolerance to non-breeders of all persuasions - with the usual caveat that they be consenting, informed adults. That type of intolerance represents a culture I won't embrace.
Historically most of the previous "civilisations" I'm familiar with welcomed them too, because they make valid contributions without the same resource drags of (us) breeders. Children, and child-reaching is costly across a range of resources. Most of those former civilisations are now wastelands - often partially created by the sheep and goats herded by the Iron Age mentality tribes that spew the same displaced hatred as that moron. The same type of conservative fundamentalist that often "rose up and threw off the shackles" (destroyed) of the same civilisation and then had trouble understanding how to operate, build, or manage the things they originally planned on "taking back" for themselves.
You want the torque and power curve of an electric motor but the convenience of tanking up with kerosene?
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Mostly random stuff.
The Veyron has special tires that cost $30000 and last 4000 km (2500 miles). I think I'd rather have the P90D with normal tires.
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)
It would also be a major pain dodging the packs shed when someone shows off on the interstate. These are roadable cars doing this.
You troll easily. Do you get a rush, when you're flipping around in the bottom of the boat?
That is the short sighted version, but...
Basically, the incentives can be seen as a sort of support for the EV manufacturer who will sell more cars, and therefore will be able to scale up the production and design cheaper consumer friendly cars. E.g. Tesla is working on the Model 3 which will be more affordable, this was only possible by going the route from the roadster and model S.
Yes, the incentives may go to rich people (excluding people buying a Nissan Leaf), but the long term benefit is to get affordable EVs to everyone.
"Civis Europaeus sum!"
Does this car have regenerative braking? If so then it's even less, since once you stop you're going to be recovering a lot of that kinetic energy.
if my maths is correct 0 - 60 in 2.8 seconds is 9.5 m/s2 just less than the 9.8 of freefall.
Yes, yes it does.
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.)
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i don't care if it takes 5 minutes to get up to 60mph, what I want is a 400 mile range.
How did we get this deep into the comments with no occurrence of either the word "Kessel" or "parsec"?
Eh, it's no different than a truck shedding the tread off its cheap tires. I didn't know they did that to save weight and drag.
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