Posted on 05/23/2013 5:09:52 PM PDT by grundle
The July 2013 issue of Consumer Reports gives the Tesla Model S the highest rating of any car in the magazine's history.
link only:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/07/tesla-model-s-review/index.htm
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerreports.org ...
um... and if you run out of gas a normal car is too...
No not quite. If you run out of gas you call AAA and 5 gallons later, you are on your way. If you run these batteries down to zero, you need new batteries. Not quite the same thing.
ALL NEW ANTICIPATED MODELS ARE FULLY LOADED or nearly so at launch.
But there will be models in the $75-$85K price range very soon.
NOT A STARTING PRICE OF $109K
According to most on FR these will be a complete market failure so the market should see big discounts soon.
If you run out of gas in a gas car you can, believe it or not, bring the gas to the car!!! But if you have an EV you need a flatbed to take the car to the charger. It won't cost you more than just a couple hundred dollars; people who can buy a $80K car do not worry about such pocket change. Besides, there is only a dozen of superchargers for Tesla; and any other outlet requires you to set up a camp right there for many hours.
300 mile range is good enough for anything but cross country trips.
This is the best possible range under best possible conditions. A reporter took this car on a trip, left it overnight outside of a hotel, and next morning it lost half of the charge. He became stranded shortly after that, despite his frantic efforts to find a public charger.
Very few people would choose to take a high end luxury sports car on a cross country trip anyway electric or not.
Tesla S is not a sports car, it's a family sedan. It just costs like a top notch sports car; but it can't go much faster than the speed limit on I-5 (70 mph.) You could drive very comfortably in the right lane at that speed, right between huge trucks :-) Calculators on Tesla's Web site max out at 65 mph. Makes sense - who would dare to drive faster than that? :-)
But otherwise you are correct; whenever I go on a road trip I always walk into my garage and spend literally hours trying to pick the best car out of tens - no, hundreds - of cars that I own :-)
I love commenting to owners of plug-in electric cars, “nice coal-burner!”
Some even get it.
That's the Roadster sports car, Agree, overpriced and not practical for its function.
The Tesla S sedan starts c.50-60K and is actually competitively priced against the BMW or Merc,
so basically your saying that no electric car will ever be acceptable?
doesn’t matter what it costs
doesn’t matter how long the battery lasts or how quick it can be charged
doesn’t matter how well it performs
The very fact that it is electric is some how evil unto itself?
LOL...electric cars themselves are not evil.
But when underperforming, over-subsidized (with my OWN money) electric vehicles are foisted on us against the existing limiting forces of the market with the heavy hand of liberal advocacy and political correctness behind it...now THAT’S evil!
Personally, I would LOVE to have an electric car up here in New England that would be worthwhile for me to drive to and from work, but winter weather doesn’t suit them well. Heaters are a power-suck. And I don’t want to get a government subsidy or kickback for choosing it or having it made.
I find the evil-electric car meme by conservatives truly funny, and not in a condescending way, either. Best example of this is the great book by Michael Crichton “State of Fear” in which all the evil bad guy environmentalists all drive Toyota Priuses! (I know it is a hybrid not full electrical, but...still. It is almost impossible for me to visualize one without imagining the “Coexist”, “Obama-Biden” or “No Blood for Oil” stickers on them...:)
Brilliant!
Wow. CR’s latest Jump the Shark moment.
Shouldn’t a car named after Nikola Tesla be running on WIRELESS broadcast electricity???
Magazine publisher ALWAYS future date their publications so that slow witted newsstand operators (and the gullible buying public at large) won’t notice that “last month’s issue” is still on the stands a month or two later.
Magazine publisher ALWAYS future date their publications so that slow witted newsstand operators (and the gullible buying public at large) won’t notice that “last month’s issue” is still on the stands a month or two later.
After 70+ years of the scam, the masses still haven’t caught on!
Tesla dropped the lower-priced models.
Top speed is 130 (not that anyone get's up there too often on I-5, as you state)... but the acceleration was HEAVENLY... 0-60 in 4.2 sec.
There are rumors that reverse engineering reveals it’s a $140,000 car being sold for $100,000. But it’s a nice car, as most any $100,000 luxe car would be.
A little less-biased (but still PC) take on it:
http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/track-tests/2013-tesla-model-s-track-test.html
Did anyone else read the Obamacare analysis in ConSewer Reports?
I happened to have a gift subscription and when I got to the Obamacare puff piece analysis, I decided right then and there that the magazine was a piece of liberal crap. I will not re-subscribe when this one runs out. Disappointing because they have a few good tidbits in there. You would think Obamacare was the end-all and fix-all for America...Sheesh...brain dead people at that magazine.
I have just about had it with CR’s political correctness. I needed to buy a new clothes washer a while back because the old one broke. Not only did the old one break after just two years, but my wife hated it because it did a crappy job of washing clothes. The old one was one of the low water usage ones that CR rated very highly. Well, I did some research and found a Speed Queen model that everybody who submitted a review loved. What did they love about it? It actually got clothes clean! Why did it get clothes clean? Because it allowed enough water to wash the clothes. Where did CR rate it? At the very bottom. So I bought the Speed Queen and my wife says it’s the best washer she has ever used. Consumer Reports was obviously promoting the “environmentally friendly” washers even if they did a crappy job. I wonder how environmentally friendly it is for those crap machines to be thrown in the landfill every two years. FUCR!
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