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> more performance than ice In some axes, WAY more. The new Roadster 0-60 is 1.9 sec, which is 0.3 faster than everything on the production list. That list ne

• mlrtime 8y ago
  The Roadster hasn't been released yet so nothing needs updating yet.
• unfoldedCravat 8y ago
  It's also not all about 0-60 (at least for the motorsport market). Tesla's seem to still have issues under sustained high performance driving[1]. There's many cars with significantly slower 0-60 times that smash the Model S around Nürburgring due to batteries overheating and being put into limp mode. As the technology improves no doubt this problem will go away, but it doesn't look like we're there just yet. For perspective the Model S made it around the track in about 10 minutes, an old diesel Jaguar S Type with a 0-60 time of 8.5~ seconds did it in about 9 [2 & 3]. [1] https://insideevs.com/news/323053/tesla-model-s-fails-to-lap-nurburgring-under-full-power-video/ https://insideevs.com/news/323053/tesla-model-s-fails-to-lap... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times#Production,_street-legal_vehicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_S-Type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_S-Type