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0 pointsthinkloop8y ago0 comments

Are you saying that the numbers aren't true, or that it has other weaknesses that would cause it to lose a race?

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Neil448y ago· 2 in thread

Think of it this way, if some server or database came out claiming incredible benchmark numbers you’d say okay now show me some real world workloads. Same here. 0-60 is an artificial benchmark, a circuit time is a real world workload.

mrep8y ago

They already have a test car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3380&v=aXWfL-1ie...

I'm pretty sure they aren't making it up.

Neil448y ago

I haven't said they're making up the 0-60 time. I'm saying show me a test against the competition that lasts for longer than 1.9 seconds.

Don't get me wrong it's a deeply impressive vehicle. I'm just not an Elon fanboy and the precise milisecond that what Porsche, McLaren et. al. customers want something like that is when they will start making it. It's not like one company is the future and the rest of them are dinosaurs. One company is small and loosing money and the others are making it, enough of it to buy Tesla any time they feel like it, which being realistic is what's going to happen eventually.

Natanael_L8y ago

Overheating. Like previous models, it likely can't cool down the engines and batteries fast enough to sustain that power output.

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