Re:Tesla Roadster
by paganel on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:54AM
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You get voted down by people who just want to believe stuff, physics be damned. Doesn't matter that the same exact thing happens to the existing S models which manage a more than decent 0-to-60 performance on paper (they're in the same league with the Lambos and the Ferraris), but because of those damned physics I don't think that any of them actually completed a Nurburgring lap (that's ~7 km driving the S model like a sports car).
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Perhaps getting down downvoted by people who expect Tesla may have thought about this. I remember reading the overheating was due to the regenerative braking trying to push power back into the battery so it was getting hard charged and discharged constantly and you couldn't switch off the charging. The bigger battery may be so you can switch off the regenerative braking.
Really? Are you saying 7 mins of hard driving will render it literally unable to continue?
The S will go into reduced power mode after 7 minutes of track grade driving:
https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-a-tesla-model-s-can-do-aroun...
It’s not a track car...what do people expect?
https://insideevs.com/expected-tesla-model-s-fails-lap-nurbu.... Not “unable to continue” perhaps, but unable to deliver a sports car-like performance.