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It's also not just another drag race. Notice they did the race from a moving 30mph, while the Aston Martin was in second gear. The Tesla only accelerates after
by lambdasquirrel 13y ago
It's also not just another drag race. Notice they did the race from a moving 30mph, while the Aston Martin was in second gear. The Tesla only accelerates after the Aston Martin starts spooling up. This is not a from-0-mph which would throw the advantage into the lap of the Tesla.
Maybe putting the Aston into 1st would be more fair, but that's not a realistic real-world test. You don't mill around town in 1st gear. It's a surprising result because having full-torque at all times still helps when you are milling around at local-town speeds. It's not just an electric-car pony trick.
- DanEdge 13y agoIt's true that you don't tend to mill around town in first gear but the title of the post is 'Tesla Model S outperforms Aston' which implies to me that both cars were performing optimally. I bet most people hadn't picked up on the fact the Aston was in the wrong gear for a race. I hadn't until I read your comment.