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Tesla Model S Plaid Sets the Production EV Nürburgring Track Record at 7:35.579

posted by martyb on Sunday September 12 2021, @02:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the Whhhhrrrrrr! dept.

upstart writes:

Tesla Model S Plaid sets the production EV 'Ring record at 7:35.579:

Tesla's new tri-motor technological terror -- the Model S Plaid -- finally got its day at Germany's famed and feared Nurburgring Nordschleife. It managed to set the official production electric vehicle record while it was there -- even with that goofy steering yoke.

Elon Musk announced the record on his Twitter account on Thursday, and while the sheet of paper he posted shows two times, the official time that Nurburgring officials count is the slower of the two at 7:35.579, rather than 7:30.909.

Tesla posted a video of the run on Friday, and the Nurburgring posted the same video, but with onscreen telemetry. While neither of them looks (or sounds) very fast, that's kind of the reality of modern cars, especially modern electric cars.

Watch it on YouTube

(I count myself fortunate to have driven a lap around the Grand Prix section of the Nürburgring in September 1997 when I was working on a project for FIA. Fun times! --martyb).

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @07:56PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @07:56PM (#1177281)

    7:30 lights years per soccerpitch. And no, I don't give a fuck.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @11:42PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12 2021, @11:42PM (#1177336)

    7:30 lights years per soccerpitch.

    The units are standard for lap times in motorsports. Minutes:Seconds.Milliseconds

    And no, I don't give a fuck.

    Nobody is forcing you to read or comment on the article. There are quite a few people here who are interested in cars and motorsports. If you aren't interested, read another story.

    Even though this isn't directly about motorsports, racing is very relevant. Technology from motorsports can and does end up in street cars to improve safety, performance, or efficiency.

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @01:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @01:42AM (#1177347)

      All this quality information and yet... no fuck given.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Acabatag on Monday September 13 2021, @02:41AM (1 child)

      by Acabatag (2885) on Monday September 13 2021, @02:41AM (#1177354)

      Why are we using an obsolete time unit that isn't decimal? 60 minute? 60 seconds??? Isn't this the era of the Metric System? What's the SI unit for time and why isn't it based on a particular animal having ten fingers like all other scientific SI units?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @12:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @12:14PM (#1177388)

        Decimal is horrible system. It's /only/ useful for science because it makes math easy, in every other regard it is inferior. Math is full of relics of tradition like that though, which is why so many hate it.