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

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, @11:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @11:37PM (#229241)

    > the heat generated from direct electrical heating coils (as opposed to, say, a more efficient heat-pump...)

    Really bad comparison, just absolutely terrible.

    Heat pumps don't generate heat, they move it. Hence the name pump.
    FYI, a refrigerator is a heat-pump, moving heat from inside the fridge to outside the fridge.