Bulgakov posted:

because this is 2019 elon is gonna put some shlub behind the wheel of a model s, who against all the odds will kamikaze down the track and only due to pure luck somehow not have smashed into the sides or rolled it over taking a turn poorly or etc and end up accidentally crushing all the other records because thats the one of all possible worlds where the car didn't explode while doing a 1080 through the air into france

Genderfluent posted:

Seems like a growing theory on r/teslamotors is that tesla scheduled track time months ago but under a different name for some reason. Sure, why not?

AlbieQuirky posted:

who told them that? Nintendo uncle or Canada girlfriend?

baka kaba posted:

a second Tesla performs in-race refuelling

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1170264393801592832

2 days later and elon's changed his tune for some reason??

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

I was curious as to what the current best time around the ring was for ANY Tesla and either I completely suck at Google (likely) or there hasn’t been one.

orange sky posted:

I mean, some guy already did 8:50. I don't know if it's the 20.6km lap, but it's not bad for an amateur, maybe a pro can cut a minute to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dphw4km60m4

uvar posted:

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I know that not everybody has the time to watch an entire 30-minute video, so I’ll give a quick summary and tell you some key points in the video to skip to.

The video shows a new Nissan LEAF Plus, with the 62 kWh battery pack and a more powerful drive system than any previous LEAF. Over the course of 14 laps, it stays pretty close to last year’s winner: an older pre-facelift Tesla Model S with dual motors. Toward the end, the LEAF manages to pass the Model S and ends up winning the race.

...

We can see this in this race. In the beginning, the Tesla was not only walking away from the LEAF on straight portions of the track, but running away hard. In the first lap, the Tesla initially almost disappears from view. As the race progressed, the Tesla slowly lost its straight-line acceleration advantage. Between around 5:40 and the end of the race, the LEAF continued to dominate the turns while the Tesla had a harder and harder time escaping again in the straights. Finally, after 23 minutes, the LEAF managed to pass around the starting line, and the Tesla couldn’t catch up for the rest of the race.

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Before any fanboys start crying in the comments, I want to point something important out. This is a race between a 2019 Nissan EV and a 2014 or 2015 Tesla. Obviously, it wasn’t a fair fight at all from the standpoint of comparing the manufacturers.

Cojawfee posted:

The thing I hate about cars is that, after 4-5 years of hard driving, the gas tank doesn't hold as much gas anymore.

orange sky posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1170401244310949888?s=20

So, April

E: btw lol I'll give you one guess as to why he's planning it in November

TheDon01 posted:

No shave November?

orange sky posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1170401244310949888?s=20

So, April

E: btw lol I'll give you one guess as to why he's planning it in November

uvar posted:

There is one catch:

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Take, for instance, the cooling system. The E-Tron individually monitors and cools individual battery pack modules to keep them between 74-95 degrees Fahrenheit. If one of them has a problem, you can also replace a module without having to mess with the whole pack.

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But a 5kWh battery difference doesn’t nearly explain a 166-mile range deficit. Cooling, aerodynamics and weight obviously contribute, but the biggest factor is that Audi does not let you access the full battery. The E-Tron automatically walls off 12 percent of its battery, leaving you with an 83.6 kWh usable pack.

That’s because fully charging a battery isn’t good for its long-term health. Tesla acknowledges this, too, giving you the option of electronically limiting your charging. But because a lot of people want to minimize range anxiety, many customers don’t wall off their batteries.

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

Essentially, traditional manufacturers have customers that are less likely to accept drive unit failures, battery replacements and quality concerns that Tesla early adopters often write off as a small price to pay for a car from the future. And, without the sort of growth-is-everything valuation of a Silicon Valley tech firm, Volkswagen’s shareholders are less likely to tolerate stratospheric warranty costs.

Bedshaped posted:

A BATTERY PACK THAT ISN'T JUST A BAZINGA (a number equalling around 20,000) OF CHEAPLY MADE CELLS GLUED TOGETHER??

infernal machines posted:

motortrend did a teardown if you'd like to see more

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Tesla nails the Silicon Valley electrical/electronics engineering better than any current competitor Munro has studied, and his team has scrutinized all the leaders. There’s also abundant and impressive innovation in this car.

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Clearly Tesla employs a lot of savvy electrical engineers. Its electronic computing circuitry ranks somewhere between that of a cellphone and a Mars mission in terms of sophistication. “The controllers are much, much more advanced than anything we’ve seen, and they’re all in one location,”

jre posted:

It's a bit bazinga in places

jre posted:

It's a bit bazinga in places

Cojawfee posted:

I agree. They should have looked into what other niche companies do. Take a look at Williams F1 team. They used to be king of poo poo mountain but now they really suck. But they stay afloat because they have a whole engineering division where they create things for other companies to make money. Same thing for McLaren. They race and they sell cars, but they also have an applied technology division that sells their expertise to various companies. I'm sure there are plenty of really smart people at Tesla and Musk should be leveraging their expertise and selling things to other companies instead of putting all their eggs into making lovely cars.

Dumb Lowtax posted:

lmao at "should"

The investors demand Tesla to be just the way it is