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Re:Tesla Roadster by greglindahl on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:45AM (#15719960)
If you look at Teslas, they have a grill in the front that sends air to a radiator that's shared by the battery cooling system and the cabin air conditioning.

For S and X and 3, it's not beefy enough to handle an extended period of time. Also, the engine has to radiate heat.

So, you're boldly predicting that Tesla, which understands basic physics well enough that their existing cars accelerate well and don't burst into flames because of heat issues, is going to be unable to do any better cooling the battery and motors of a future car?

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Re:Tesla Roadster by varjag on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:02AM (#15720353)
Making snap engineering conclusions about technology that had tens of thousands hours R&D poured into them is a popular genre of fiction.

I just see how the thinking goes. "No way this issue that crossed my mind in the first 40 seconds I heard about the product was addressed by the bunch of hacks behind it".

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Re:Tesla Roadster by InternetOfStuff on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:39AM (#15720549)
So, you're boldly predicting that Tesla is going to overdesign their cooling system to meet the unrealistic demand of unlimited-duration maximum power draw (in a supercar!).

I'm not saying either of you are wrong. I'm saying either of you know equally little about the engineers' decisions, and are making equally unreasonable demands.

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Re:Tesla Roadster by greglindahl on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:00PM (#15724298)
No, I'm not predicting that, boldly or not.
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Re:Tesla Roadster by tmzt on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:41PM (#15724743)
Could the make the whole rear a cooling system as you described, with radiators in aerodynamic flow.

Also guessing that a 300k P4-AWDD will be announced at some point.

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