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on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM
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A score of 103 out of 100 could be called kind of... Insane. This is exactly what the Tesla Model S P85D in 'Insane' mode received during testing by Consumer Reports (CR), a score so off-the-charts good that it actually broke the scale and forced CR to revise how they measure things. The official score with the new, updated methodology will be 100/100.
What made the Tesla break the ratings was the combination of supercar performance and extreme energy efficiency. These things haven't historically been found together, and so CR never had a car that go such high scores in both columns.
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The New Tesla Broke the Consumer Reports Rating System With a Score of 103%
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday August 28 2015, @07:47PM
you can't hit the open road of great America with this thing.
No, not really. Not the way most Americans travel. On long trips, most people probably do closer to 450 miles per day in regular cars.
Tesla is more than a city car, but less than a traveling vehicle.
270 miles (253 for the 4wheel drive model)
But take any random new battery technology of the week posted here on SoylentNews, and swap out the battery on every Tesla
and you could easily see it achieving over 500 miles of range on a single (much shorter) charge.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 28 2015, @08:05PM
I just finished a decent long-distance, 1600-mile summer road trip yesterday. We have a fuel-efficient gas-powered car, that got 40mpg for the trip. I found myself constantly wishing for the quiet and instant acceleration of my brother-in-law's BMW i3 EV that I've been borrowing the last 6 months. I would not have minded the 1/2 hour recharge breaks that a Tesla would have required for the trip, either, because you stop about that often, for that long, with bathroom breaks and kid squirrelly-ness anyway.
Electric cars are the future, and the future is now.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Friday August 28 2015, @11:03PM
I've taken long trips in noisy (and usually inexpensive) cars. It can be brutal.
But I've also taken long trips in quality cars (gas), and the noise is almost the same a the Tesla, which I've also ridden in at highway speeds.
Most noise in any car, (except a junker) is road noise. A cheap car does not dampen that noise much, (and you can hear the engine
as well). But even in a medium priced car such as the hybrid Camry, you are hard pressed to tell when the engine starts (because the
battery is getting low).
Those 1/2 hour charges in the Tesla don't get you a full battery. In fact, unless you go to a Tesla Supercharger station, your charge
rate is going to be disappointingly slow.
Rule of Thumb
These numbers are courtesy Tesla Motors, but are more-or-less true for any other electric car:
120 volt 12 amps: 3 miles range gained per hour of charging (typical line cord charger)
120 volt 15 amps: 4 miles range gained per hour of charging
240 volt 16 amps: 12 miles range gained per hour of charging (older model 3.3 kiloWatt on-board chargers)
240 volt 30 amps: 25 miles range gained per hour of charging (newer model 6.6 kiloWatt on-board chargers)
240 volt 40 amps: 29 miles range gained per hour of charging (Tesla Model S mobile connector) ---Typical public charger
20 kiloWatt: 58 miles range gained per hour of charging (Tesla Model S high powered wall connector)
Tesla Supercharger: 170 miles range gained per half-hour of charging
Take this rule of thumb with a grain of salt. The Tesla Model S has lower energy efficiency than do the affordable electric cars. That means other electric cars, like the BMW i3 (the most efficient of current electric cars), will get slightly better miles of range gained per hour of charging.
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