Finally competition for teslas? If you took this drivetrain and put it on a street legal car maybe.
Teslas are awesome (I have one and so I can speak from experience) and you can cruise for hours comfortably on the freeway. But there's one limitation that might not be commonly known. Teslas and most evs have incredible torque, thus they can beat most (almost every?) car's 0 to 60 times. The tesla can go all day (200-250 miles of real range) on the freeway, driving aggressively. But the constant acceleration on a track, where you have to slow down and speed up catches up with the tesla's cooling system's capabilities and after a few laps or miles of top speed and slow down and top speed and slowdown around corners, it gets hot and the system slows it down. Teslas do have a limit on a track - because of the limited cooling capacity.
This never matters on normal driving, but at the famous Nürburgring track in Germany you need to make the corners, slow down, accelerate.
So there is room for other evs (even street legal eventually) to improve on tesla's already impressive technical acumen in this area. I'm hopeful the new roadster will do that.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadTeslas are awesome (I have one and so I can speak from experience) and you can cruise for hours comfortably on the freeway. But there's one limitation that might not be commonly known. Teslas and most evs have incredible torque, thus they can beat most (almost every?) car's 0 to 60 times. The tesla can go all day (200-250 miles of real range) on the freeway, driving aggressively. But the constant acceleration on a track, where you have to slow down and speed up catches up with the tesla's cooling system's capabilities and after a few laps or miles of top speed and slow down and top speed and slowdown around corners, it gets hot and the system slows it down. Teslas do have a limit on a track - because of the limited cooling capacity.
This never matters on normal driving, but at the famous Nürburgring track in Germany you need to make the corners, slow down, accelerate.
So there is room for other evs (even street legal eventually) to improve on tesla's already impressive technical acumen in this area. I'm hopeful the new roadster will do that.