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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, @08:07PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:07PM (#229534) Journal

    I don't think anyone should worry about the grid's capacity to support EVs, because most EVs will recharge @ night while demand is low.

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