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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 18 2015, @04:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the light-speed-too-slow dept.

You may have heard about Tesla's "insane mode," which accelerates a sedan from 0 to 60 mph in a mindboggling 3.2 seconds. But Tesla is already moving ahead with something even better: A "ludicrous mode" that sends you from 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds.

Shaving off half a second may not sound like much. But the $10,000 option on the Model S shows off some of the advances in battery technology that Tesla is building into its newer cars. Under ludicrous speed, said Musk, the car will accelerate at 1.1 times the force of gravity.
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The Model S is also getting a battery capacity upgrade from 85 kilowatt-hours to 90 kWh, an increase of around 6 percent that will cost existing owners about $3,000 if they choose to upgrade. Not everyone should be upgrading every year, though, as Tesla expects to add around 5 percent capacity to its batteries every year on average. That translates to a roughly 5 percent annual increase in range. Musk said he expects most customers to upgrade batteries once every three to four years.

Not too much longer before "range anxiety" becomes an ICE problem.


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  • (Score: 1) by TheMessageNotTheMessenger on Saturday July 18 2015, @06:01PM

    by TheMessageNotTheMessenger (5664) on Saturday July 18 2015, @06:01PM (#210833)

    This is an issue on all tech sites; usage of terminology you're not familiar with.

    Asking for clarity is often answered with "you can google that yourself!" or "Don't you know? This is basic!". Neither helps.

    I didn't look ICE up. I missed the joke. I think I can live with that.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:29PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:29PM (#210871) Homepage Journal

    I did google "ICE problem" and was not enlightened. What is an ICE problem?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by RedGreen on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:42PM

      by RedGreen (888) on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:42PM (#210876)

      If your in the land down under or NZ it is a meth addiction problem, around my neck of the woods in winter a damn big storm just blew through or in this case internal combustion engine.

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    • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:28AM

      by inertnet (4071) on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:28AM (#210911) Journal

      It means your in circuit emulator isn't working properly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_emulation [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:29PM (#210872)

    In case of emergency?