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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: 2) by gringer on Saturday July 18 2015, @08:45PM
No, I can't. I get headaches if I go too long without food, and I'm not allowed to eat in my office (because it's part of a laboratory). I also work better if I have a few breaks between different jobs; my best sit-down performance lasts for about 2 hours before I need a short break (maybe a couple of minutes).
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:54AM
I get headaches if I go too long without food
those headaches are actually a sign of withdraw because you have become addicted to refined sugar and i'm not even joking. if you remove the sugar from your diet (not an easy thing to do), after a day (or three, depending on your susceptibility to addiction) you will have broken from the habit. if you have weight issues, this will solve them quite quickly.
(Score: 2) by gringer on Sunday July 19 2015, @09:28PM
those headaches are actually a sign of withdraw because you have become addicted to refined sugar and i'm not even joking.
I'm pretty sure that's not it. My family uses about a 1/2 cup of refined sugar every couple of weeks for pancakes and biscuits, and that's it. We use bananas instead of sugar when making ice cream, and buy yoghurt without sugar. Almost all the sugar we cosume is from unrefined sources; we eat lots of fruit, but that probably doesn't count as "refined sugar". I can understand if it's sugar withdrawal (because that's how the body works), just not refined sugar withdrawal.
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