When did German started a battery electrical vehicle ? BMW started more than 20-25 years ago with standard lead acid batteries, how did it perform in market place ? A total failure, no model sold more than few hundreds copies.
The current battery vehicles seem to be a success, more and more traditional car manufactures are designing/engineering various vehicles running with batteries only, along with various hybrid and plugin hybrid. Mainly because Tesla pioneered the current battery vehicles with Li-on batteries.
Now, Porsche is badmouthing Tesla, they didn't even have a prototype yet but proclaim their battery Mission-E will be better than Model S and said "Model S is a facade".
Other than cheating and copying what did German engineers are capable of ? If you are copying others then shut-up and just copying, the more you brag about non existence product (from copying Model S) the more inadequate you are showing.
Without Tesla could any German engineer think of design/engineer a battery powered vehicle that capable of more than 200 miles between charges ?
Note: Tesla had model S on sale since 2013, Porsche took 7 years to copying from Tesla to produce Mission E, it will be available in 2020. And it will not be able to do sub-3 seconds 0-60, Model S P90D is capable of 2.8 seconds more than a year now.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car...dicrous-facade/
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Porsche Engineer Reportedly Calls Tesla's Ludicrous Mode a "Facade"
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In case you weren't aware that Porsche aimed its upcoming all-electric Mission E sedan squarely at the Tesla Model S, a Porsche engineer went ahead and clarified that. In fact, the engineer thoroughly trashed Tesla while loudly proclaiming that the Mission E will be a game-changer in the world of electric cars.
The engineer then goes on to take some very pointed shots at the Tesla Model S, specifically its ultra-quick Ludicrous Mode.
"The thing about [Tesla's] Ludicrous mode is that it's a façade," the engineer said. "Two launches saps the whole battery. That won't be the case with the Mission E. You'll be able to run it hard, over and over; the battery will not overheat, the power control module will not overheat, and the seats will not suck."
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Yes, anonymous Porsche engineer, but tell us how you really feel about the Tesla Model S.
Of course, a Porsche employee isn't going to have the nicest things to say about a company its trying to compete directly with copy from, but this engineer is especially bold. They're also not entirely wrong, since Ludicrous Mode is more of a party trick than an all-out performance feature. Porsche makes a big deal of the durability of its performance cars.
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But let's play devils advocate here: Maybe the Porsche engineer is missing the point entirely. Tesla offers performance features like Ludicrous Mode because it can (and because it's presumably profitable), but making high-end performance cars isn't its endgame. With the Model 3, Tesla aims to move downmarket, where Porsche has no such aspirations.
Yes, the Mission E could very well be a better performance car than the Model S, but will Tesla care when the Porsche hits the road in 2020? Who knows, but we're excited to see what Porsche comes up with in any case.
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