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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @11:37PM
> 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.