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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: 3, Insightful) by TheSuperFriend on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:04PM

    by TheSuperFriend (5663) on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:04PM (#210840)

    I actually read "ICE" as the very common "in case of emergency". That acronym is so widely used that my phone even came with an "ICE" group defined in the contacts list.

    The reading "in case of emergency" also happens to work with the note added by the so-called editor, so there is actual ambiguity here.

    Is it really appropriate to call people editors if they have no clue what good editing is? Maybe instead of continually being disappointed we should change our expectations and start calling them by some other title more in line with their actual skill set, like "story selector" or "blog jockey".

    This particular "editor" saved 23 keystrokes by not typing "internal combustion engine".

    Saving keystrokes is something you might do when you're sending someone a text message or trying to shrink a tweet. It's not something you do when you're publishing something.

    Next time could you please spend the extra 5 seconds to type it out once, instead of assuming everyone reading your brilliant take on the story has extra sensory perception and knows exactly what YOU mean when you use an acronym/initialism?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:47PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:47PM (#210851) Journal

    This particular "editor" saved 23 keystrokes by not typing "internal combustion engine".

    https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=8387 [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 1) by xav on Saturday July 18 2015, @08:29PM

    by xav (5579) on Saturday July 18 2015, @08:29PM (#210855)

    >instead of assuming everyone (..) knows exactly what YOU mean(s) when you use an acronym/initialism

    Answer: "YOU" means "You Outta Understand"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:34PM (#210873)

    I thought ICE was in case of emergency. Then, when you said Internal Combustion Engine, I said OF COURSE!!!! Duh!!!! I know cars enough to know what that means within the relative context.

    Dang it, my brain musta really been damaged when I hit it a while back. I used to never have this much difficulty properly discerning acronyms.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 19 2015, @02:36AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday July 19 2015, @02:36AM (#210940) Journal

    instead of assuming everyone reading your brilliant take on the story has extra sensory perception and knows exactly what YOU mean when you use an acronym/initialism

    It was my brilliant take on the story as the submitter, not the editors'. In apposition to an article about electric cars ICE has helpful context, in the way that "Apple, Google, and MS" does not really require "Apple, Google, and Microsoft (MS)."

    Is it really appropriate to call people editors if they have no clue what good editing is?

    That's a fair question. Here's another: Is it really appropriate to dress down people who do this stuff for you on a daily, 24-hr basis for free, out of the goodness of their hearts, and for apparently no gratitude?

    A parting thought--this is a community site and the people who serve as editors, who code, and who submit or mod or comment regularly do so for free because they value the community. Feedback can be helpful, but delivered in the tone yours was it is destructive. If you really mean well, then pitch in. Submit stories to keep the queue full, and show us all how it's done. Step up and put in some time as an editor--those guys would really like the help. If you can't or won't do any of those things, then at a minimum don't be a dick to the people who are.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @04:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @04:11AM (#210962)

      We will criticize and praise as the posts deserve. Can't handle it? Too thin-skinned? Don't do it then.

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:04AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:04AM (#211011) Journal
    Seriously? You're the second person to complain about this (and you started a new thread rather than joining in his). ICE is a really common abbreviation when talking about electric vehicles. Defining acronyms that are in common use is redundant.
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