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It's fantastic. Best thing I've ever driven, regardless of environmental impact. It's silent and odorless, responds instantly and precisely, and it seats 5 adul
by tlb 14y ago
It's fantastic. Best thing I've ever driven, regardless of environmental impact. It's silent and odorless, responds instantly and precisely, and it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably.
A niche benefit: I live in the mountains and it handles going down much better than gas cars, where you have to downshift and use engine braking to avoid burning the brakes. It uses 12 miles of range going up, and gains 4 back going down so the average is close to a flat road of the same distance.
- TallGuyShort 14y agoI'm curious about how it handles downhills. I would've thought that without engine braking you would have to rely exclusively on the brakes and would thus burn them up even more. Does the Tesla have another mechanism? Or just insanely efficient brakes?
- furyg3 14y agoIt has regenerative breaking, which is effectively 'engine breaking'. Engine breaking on an electric car puts electricity back into the batteries. The brakes you see in the photos are for breaking, hard (full stop, quick stop, racing).
- Dylan16807 14y agobraking.
- laacz 14y ago5 adults + 2 kids comfortably? In a car with max 5 seatbelts?
- nathanm412 14y agoIt has connection points to fit rear facing child seats in the rear storage compartment. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7839&stc=1&d=1342467308 http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7...
- BHSPitMonkey 14y ago1. Attach seats 2. Don't get rear-ended
- chiph 14y agoIt's almost certainly safer than the late 1960's station wagon we had when I was a child, with the backwards-facing seats in the cargo area. The rear crumple zone on it was everything behind the axle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siT-SIfOnQw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siT-SIfOnQw
- curiousDog 14y agoI think you can attach two child seats to the back seat. Like so: http://oi55.tinypic.com/2qsxish.jpg http://oi55.tinypic.com/2qsxish.jpg
- Domenic_S 14y ago> it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably Wait, it seats 7?
- btilly 14y agoElon Musk has 5 children. He therefore designed it so that his whole family can be in one.
- Domenic_S 14y agoHoly cow, didn't realize there was a jump seat option: http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/03/our-tesla-model-s-gets-a-third-row-seat-and-now-seats-seven.html http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/03/our-tesla-model...
- mschaef 14y ago> it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably. It can seat 7 at once???
- secabeen 14y agoHave you put kids in the back much? Based on their comfort and the space they take up, do you feel that the S is enough for a family car, or will the X better fill that niche?
- DEinspanjer 14y agoMy kids absolutely adore "the cave". They wave to people sometimes at red lights. ;) They won't be able to sit back there forever. My daughter probably has 2 years and my son maybe 4 or 5. When they are both done with the seats, we can have them removed and get even more trunk space. One thing that I ding Tesla a bit about... They don't tint the hatchback window the way they do the panoramic roof glass. This was a mistake as the back seats get hot in the direct sunlight and there isn't currently air conditioning vents back there. Enough owners have raised these concerns that I believe they will likely correct one or both of them in future revisions of the car, and we'll see if they make it one of the proposed hardware retrofits. In the interim, we had the back windows after-market tinted and the kids have no complaints.
- nijk 14y agoWhat about the psychological health of a child growing up in first-class accommodations?