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Is "considerably less than 10 seconds" that bad of a sign? I took that to mean in the neighborhood of 7 seconds, which is just fine for most usage. Probably d
by 3am 14y ago
Is "considerably less than 10 seconds" that bad of a sign? I took that to mean in the neighborhood of 7 seconds, which is just fine for most usage. Probably depends on factors like temperature and charge level, which is a new problem for car makers trying to describe the performance of a vehicle.
I think you're underestimating the utility some people attach to owning a pure electric vehicle (and without research, I would guess wealthier than average people). So they don't have to reach parity with or exceed ICE powered vehicles to succeed.
[EDIT] - I think this doesn't see the forest for the trees. Regardless of the model B's quality, Tesla's battery pack and powertrain are becoming a platform for other car makers - definitely a positive for the company's development.
[EDIT2] - Noting your interest in cars, I freely concede that I don't see this as a car lovers' car. But that doesn't stop there from being plenty of minivans on the road.
- zalew 14y ago> Is "considerably less than 10 seconds" that bad of a sign? I took that to mean in the neighborhood of 7 seconds People put a lot of money in performance tuning to get rid of 0.5s in the lower scale, but even in the slower numbers improving by 1s often takes engine swapping, super-charging and/or other sorts of mods. Saying 'considerably less than 10s' is like saying 'your salary will be considerably more than 1k' which could be 1.2k as well as 4k, but when you hear that you know it's about the former.
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- arrrg 14y agoNo one who cares that (crazy) much about cars will ever buy a Mercedes B Class. I’m sorry, but what you are talking about here couldn’t be any less relevant for the prospective target group of this car. Who the fuck even cares about 0-60 times?! Nobody (for all reasonable definitions of nobody in this context), that’s who. With its range and charging requirements this car won’t even leave the city all that often. I don’t know, maybe for Americans the concept of buying a Mercedes as a boring family car is alien, but that’s what the B Class is. It’s not a luxury or performance car.
- zalew 14y agoI'm not American and feel welcome to check out my other comment in this thread.
- mark242 14y agoEven if "considerably less than 10 seconds" means 9 seconds, that means the B-class could keep up with a 1982 Ferrari Mondial. In city driving, nobody cares about 0-60 times.