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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:30AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:30AM (#229283) Journal

    My brother bought his i3 used for $8K. Seems pretty affordable to me, especially when you consider the savings in gasoline and maintenance.

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:42AM

    by tftp (806) on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:42AM (#229288) Homepage

    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

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:04PM (#229533) Journal

      Buy one used, like he did

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:35AM (#229680)

      > 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

        by tftp (806) on Sunday August 30 2015, @07:08PM (#229934) Homepage

        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.)