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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.
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.
Then Mel Brooks sues Ludacris for prior, prior art.
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New Tesla Model S P90D “Ludicrous Speed” Goes 0-60 MPH in 2.8 Seconds
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'
A '72 Z28 Camaro is around 4 seconds, so I agree - those numbers are suspect at best. Have they actually done it? Or is this what the engineers calculate it might be able to do?
I'm not sure its reasonable to compare a one wheel wonder rear wheel drive car (standard differential) to an all wheel drive electric. You are basically running on a fraction of the traction and therefore theoretical maximum acceleration for your tires.
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)?
The upgrade is to the P85D, which is the performance model so it's already got decent tires on it. Plus it's a four-wheel drive electric vehicle with traction control. So no tire smoking and on dry pavement you're going to get damn close to 0-60 in 2.8 seconds if you have a full charge. As the the charge decreases, you'll loose a bit of the acceleration.
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No, they went to earnings calls and straight to market just on the strength of some nerd's multiplication skills, no one actually thought of getting into a car and timing it. Maybe you should call and let them know to try it.
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Musk should buy the Delorean rights and bring it back as a Tesla brand.
I'd consider buying a Delorean reboot.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Have the battery display look like a flux capacitor.
Oh yes...
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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.
A '72 Z28 Camaro is around 4 seconds, so I agree - those numbers are suspect at best. Have they actually done it? Or is this what the engineers calculate it might be able to do?
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The 762 HP all-wheel drive electric car with traction control and performance tires (standard on the Model D) most definitely blows the doors of of the 255 HP rear wheel drive V8 with a standard differential. Also, the '72 Z/28 has a 0-60 time of 7.4 seconds.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
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
Utility of a 2.8 second 0-60 time for most ICE car owners = 0.
Utility of being able to drive 500 miles and then 'recharge' in five minutes = lots.
Utility of having decent range and never having to stop at a gas station = priceless!
Seriously. Buy a second car (owners of this Tesla can certainly afford one). Or borrow a friends (they'll be happy to drive you Telsa for a day). Or rent a car for your trip. The convenience of having a fully charged car every morning more than makes up for any range anxiety I might have had, and my electric has less than half the range of a Tesla.
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.
I traveled 8000 miles in 1 month on my new Tesla. Range and recharge time is not a problem - superchargers are almost everywhere where I would want to go in the US: http://supercharge.info/
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.
I used to race RC cars in competition. Both "Stock cars" (we called them pan cars) and drag races. We're not talking about walmart RC cars here... Mine were custom cut out of graphite sheets with a CNC router. My pan car would do between 70 and 80mph real speed, not scale. The drag car wasn't really measurable but it's speed resembled an arrow in flight. Random video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Basically everything Tesla is doing was stolen from my old hobby. The torque possible with an electric motor is only limited by the fleshy bit behind the steering wheel. Tesla could literally kill you if they let the motor wind out at full torque. The biggest problem I had to deal with was the heat on the power cables. The cables were the size of pencils but they were draining 20+ c-cell batteries completely dead in just a few seconds. As the tech advanced, we eventually had to get rid of battery connectors completely. We'd solder the battery backs directly to the speed controller. Then the cables between cells would start melting, so we spot welded sheet metal directly to them. Then the speed controllers started frying to we switched to mechanical relays that just dumped the entire battery at 100% at once. We had so many car fires, the school gyms that we used to race at wouldn't let us run there anymore. If you're wondering, to get batteries to dump that much juice at once, you have to "Train" them... we'd hook them up to tractor headlights from the local farm implement store and dump them quick. Then charge them quick. Do this hundreds of times and they'd turn into these super high voltage power houses. I think a while later, after I left the hobby, they put limits on the voltage output of the batteries, because they were getting pretty dangerous. I saw people get hurt at some major competitions by batteries exploding and in one case a car punched through a 3/4" sheet of plywood and broke a persons leg. That was from a standing start from less than 100 feet away.
As far as tires go... that's nothing. Regular car tires... well they suck. They're made very hard so they'll last a long time. To make a tire than has insane amounts of traction is easy... only problem is it only lasts 5k miles. But if you're buying a $200k car, I doubt you care.
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. :)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Once you get down sub 4-5 seconds everything is about traction, not about power. The fact that the P85D/P90D are four wheel drive means that they have a metric fuck ton more traction than a Camaro. Add to that that the Camaro you're talking about did 4 seconds on 1970s tyres, and you get quite easily to a car with 4 wheel drive and a lot of torque can do 0-60 in 2.8 seconds.
Admittedly that's into the range of current super/hyper cars (a McLaren P1, and The Ferrari The Ferrari will both do around 2.3 seconds), but that's not surprising when the current way that said super/hyper cars generate enough torque to do that is with electric motors.
..."Inconceivable" mode on the P100D.
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The 3.2 second 0-60 of the P85D model S has been independently verified, so I don't see why it would be so outrageous to expect an upgraded model to do better.
The Tesla is in fact specifically engineered to not leave rubber on the road. The computer actively measures the car's acceleration and adjusts the torque on the wheels so that they apply the maximum possible force to the road without slipping.
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.
The traction control must be working overtime. Even my Leaf can easily spin the tyres if I disable the traction control and put my foot down in the dry. I think most people have little idea just how weak ICE cars are at low speeds, until they drive an EV.
Even with the traction control off you can tell that the engine management system is holding back a bit at low speed. I wonder if they tweaked that for the Nismo version. Also, 93 MPH in reverse.
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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)