The Tesla Roadster 2.0 has been released!
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Bond Cars Ltd called and wants their silly ideas back, or at least turned the right ways 'round
Bud_One
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Sure this ain't Elio Motors new model ?
new model ?
I could buy one of these or dye my hair purple but to be fair let's not 'rush to judgment'.
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Meh. It looks like a KTM Slingshot with a body slapped on it. Motorcycles and their variants are certainly risky, but this is no worse.
Move to humor?
I thought the first roadster, based on a Lotus chassis, was awesome. And it weighed about 2800 lbs, just a bit more than half what the latest models weigh.
Details on the second roadster are sparse, but according to Wikipedia it is an actual car. It looks much bigger & heavier than the first roadster. And the claimed 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds sounds dubious, since tire traction isn't much more than 1G, and 0-16 at a constant 1 G of acceleration is about 2.7 seconds. To do it in 1.9 seconds requires about 1.45 G of traction, impossible with street legal tires.
Details on the second roadster are sparse, but according to Wikipedia it is an actual car. It looks much bigger & heavier than the first roadster. And the claimed 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds sounds dubious, since tire traction isn't much more than 1G, and 0-16 at a constant 1 G of acceleration is about 2.7 seconds. To do it in 1.9 seconds requires about 1.45 G of traction, impossible with street legal tires.
@PimTac you know you want one... Ha!
Sure, makes sense. Thanks @Astro14 . I just like to poke a litte fun sometimes. People need a little laugh now and then.
If you ask a woman out on a date and that is your only car, do you ask her to pick you up with her car?
This isn't an electric vehicle.
Why is it in this part of the forum?
Why is it in this part of the forum?
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And that certainly is a little laugh ...
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Here is a list of the fastest 0-60 times for EVs. How is it that so many of them show acceleration well below 2.7 seconds? Thanks!
Fastest Accelerating Electric Cars 0-60 mph | myEVreview
Fastest Accelerating Electric Cars 0-60 mph
www.myevreview.com
Fixed it for you.
Down to about 2.5 sec seems reasonable because the best sticky tires can give about 1.1 G of traction.
Less than that, I don't know. They're accelerating faster than normally available traction.
The Aspark Owl doing 0-60 at 1.67 secs means an average of 1.6 Gs of acceleration. Where do they get tires with that kind of traction? R compound tires can do that, but most are not street legal, and the street legal ones (like Hoosiers) don't last more than 1000 miles on the street.
You get to where you're going with her on your lap then in the trunk on the way back.
actually it is... The ElectraMeccanica Solo.
Xos | EMV
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