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The New Tesla Broke the Consumer Reports Rating System With a Score of 103%

posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

Impressive, but alas...traffic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @08:16PM (#229166)

    Along some major routes where Tesla set up charging stations, you may be able to travel - it's still a gamble. But go off the beaten path, even slightly, I would prefer to drive a Toyota corolla over a Tesla.

    Battery/alternative power tech has a long way to go.