I'm just sitting back and watching everyone play semantics...
Can you buy a Tesla Roadster, right NOW? No? Then it is NOT the world's fastest production car... yet.
The guy on the Tesla Racing channel has a GUTTED car P100D with one racing seat and AWD. Thing weighs about 4700 lbs. Yes, it's impressive for short bursts, but he DOES lose to some cars once they catch up to him :)
I am curious as I haven't seen it, but how often do you think he needs to recharge after about 6 passes at full acceleration? I think he drops about 25% of his capacity, I'd have to go look at his vids again.
Thing is, some people are so gung-ho about the electric car they can't face reality. I love electric cars and electric golf carts, just go look on Youtube for a 72 or 144v golf cart that broke the 100 mph barrier. I think it was from Plum Quick Motors.
too many reality checks. we certainly do need increased capacity on the grid, already having brownouts, there are issues to be solved. Once that's done, then the next hurdle, making an electric car more affordable in the long term than an ICE.
Yep, it's just too bad I can't afford a Volt or a Leaf or Bolt for $40k... when a Santa Fe sport fully loaded goes for around 33k (that's my wife's car, a 2013) and gets around 28 mpg highway/24 mixed. Not bad at all.
Oh well, I'm happy to watch and hope but I'm a realist. Given Tesla's record...
oh, and someone else in this thread spouted "1/3 cars sold is electric", nah. 88 million cars produced worldwide. 2016 saw 570,000 electric cars sold in the US. Could be wrong, but that's not 33%. The actual stat was comparing electric vehicles sold in the US with # of electric vehicles globally I think. Someone can google it.
