Posted on 01/20/2015 11:57:06 AM PST by LogicDesigner
Say "P85D" to Tesla owners and fans, and you will see the drooling and twitching and heavy breathing and lustful stares--and more drooling--that Tesla's fastest, highest-performance electric car brings.
The same happens with the word "Hellcat" for fans of high-powered Hemi V-8 performance.
Now, courtesy of two owners--each convinced that their car is the fastest, baddest beast on the road--we know what happens when the two cars face off on the drag strip.
Two days ago at Palm Beach International Raceway, a Tesla Model S P85D and a 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat competed in the traditional quarter-mile drag race.
Hint: It's no contest. At all. And the quieter car wins decisively.
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And, now, can we please stop with the "wimpy electric golf car" stuff?
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At the end of the run, the Challenger driver was swarmed with pin up girls. The Tesla driver was swarmed with soCal gay metrosexual boys.
And thus it will always be.
And don’t let the fuel tank run dry! Believe it or not, O’Reilly’s carries some parts.
Well look who buys Teslas. Thats the whole point of them.
The four-wheel power concept, spreading the static-friction over four patches rather than two, provides an advantage right away. The fact that the rear wheels of the Hellcat had lost this static-friction immediately, because of wheelspin, also worked heavily against getting off the spot.
The Tesla was moving away like it was keyed to the road, toothed pinion gears running against a rack.
One of the problems with internal-combustion engines is that they have virtually zero torque at stall speed, making it necessary to have the engine turning at relatively high RPM, relying on slippage for the engine to get up to its optimal delivery of torque. Electric motors have near full delivery of torque at stall.
Wheelspin may look spectacular, but it is really much wasted energy.
Amen! I swear, some people here seem to believe that in order to be a conservative you have to bathe yourself in crude oil every morning.
Seriously.
285 miles,,,at 55 mph! IF you haven’t let it sit too long without being driven, and IF the batteries are new. And IF, and IF,,,
On a nice moderately warm day, without using too much air conditioning, theoretically.
Looks like their tires were spinning and couldn’t get ground.
Once it did it would have caught that tesla.
The Tesla P85D has a 3.2 second 0-60.
Sorry, hearing a 700+ horse hemi crank up or a Tesla whizzing along, I’ll take the hemi. Visceral thing. Which one’s gonna cost more to get fixed I wonder.
A car is liberal or conservative?
Herbie was a liberal, right?
Black powder pistols are great and for 100 years the .44 Colt cap n ball was the most powerful handgun in the world. The problem is the 10 minute reload time.
The 300D is one of the finest cars ever built, IMHO.
Bwahahahahaha.... that image is staggering!
Being a conservative means being in touch with reality. Electric car technology is interesting to many engineering types, and is making some advances. It is NOT a sufficiently mature technology to displace gasoline and diesel powered cars and trucks. That's a reality that many electric car advocates seem unwilling to accept or incapable of understanding.
“I’m more conservative than you are because I hate a car more than you!”
A dodge stalled? Say it isn’t so.
We aren’t running out of oil and likely never will. And you don’t BATHE in it. You pour it on the weeds at the edge of the driveway. You refine it into all kinds of useful products. You make plastic. You lubricate metal parts with it. You squirt it on door hinges.
You create jobs that don’t need the government to fund them.
And most enjoyably, you annoy prune picker environmentalists from California.
One of my customers owns a Tesla. Says it’s the quickest car he’s ever driven. It will pin you to the seat when you punch it.
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