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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: 1) by dwilson on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:46PM
I live north of Calgary, and haven't seen a Tesla on the roads yet. I also haven't been looking, though. And the supercharge stations may not exist in the Calgary/Edmonton corridor.
I'll keep an eye out, though. I'm -very- curious to know how these cars do on the city roads come December/January. You know what I mean, the road conditions that will keep all those self-driving cars out of Canada [bloomberg.com] for the next few years, at the very least.
I've always figured the intense cold would be absolute hell on the fancy batteries, built-in heater or not.
- D