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on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.
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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The New Tesla Broke the Consumer Reports Rating System With a Score of 103%
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 29 2015, @12:07AM
It's not a toy. He drives it every day to work and back, and everywhere else he needs to go. It's very much a practical vehicle. Same thing for my brother-in-law, who owns the same model. Did you miss that part? Or is it that you're trying to shoehorn everything related to EVs into a preconceived notion you have?
You're worried about refueling in rural places. Well, rural places are more likely to have electricity than nearby gas stations, so EVs solve your problem. If OPEC (again) and Russia shut off all the oil tomorrow, there will still be electricity in America. I remember oil shortages in the 70's, but perhaps you do not. That is the definition of range anxiety.
You do sound a bit desperate to discredit EVs, throwing everything but the kitchen sink as you have. In practice, on the ground, EVs are already a practical solution for the vast majority of trips of the vast majority of most Americans (according to the data already provided about average commutes).
Go drive one. If you're brave enough, lease one. They're lovely.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday August 29 2015, @12:14AM
Go drive one. If you're brave enough, lease one. They're lovely.
What if I cannot afford one?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:30AM
My brother bought his i3 used for $8K. Seems pretty affordable to me, especially when you consider the savings in gasoline and maintenance.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:42AM
HEY, I would do the same! A whole bunch of people would do the same! Unfortunately, nobody offers me an EV for $8K. We are dealing with quite different prices - and that's exactly what I'm trying to say [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:04PM
Buy one used, like he did
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:35AM
> Unfortunately, nobody offers me an EV for $8K.
Then you are not looking hard enough 12+ nissan leafs less than $9K [cargurus.com]
(Score: 1) by tftp on Sunday August 30 2015, @07:08PM
It's more expensive here [cargurus.com]. Otherwise... perhaps, perhaps. (But in my own case I have only one parking spot without a charger, and an EV cannot be my only car. That is not related to the price, of course.)