although I'm not sure he understands physics

The CEO mentioned a potential 3 Gs of thrust:

“If you have 3 Gs of thrust, you can go in any direction. You can go up and accelerate with still more than 2 Gs.”

better take your pressure suit lel

eh, 3gs isn't gonna make you black out

how is acceleration managed? If you put the foot down it just shoots?

basically

I've gotten to drive our teslas before, and that's basically how it works

oof I hope the elderly arent too interested in teslas

it's kinda weird, you get to move as soon as you think about it instead of waiting for anything to rev/shift

eh, some of them are

besides, the autopilot is pretty good

and the lower end teslas don't have quite that nuts acceleration

I also imagine that high speed drain the battery much quicker?

huh, 3.2 second 0-60 on the model 3 for $50k

yeah, same goes for gas tanks though

true

because drag is a function of velocity squared

so if you go twice as fast you have to provide 4x as much torque to maintain your speed

*We live in an atmosphere!*

high speed fucks electric vehicles more than ICE for range because of the lack of transmissions

?

how do you mean

ICE is often geared specifically for high speed economy, that's why ford are dumping that 10spd into mustangs

with an ev the motor is always operating at a fixed economy

yeah, but the electric motors don't have a sweet spot the same

because you're turning electric energy more or less directly into kinetic

the resistance at speed impacts economy much more as there's no way of mitigating it

whereas with ICE you have all sorts of weird pressure and heat equations in between that make there be a narrower sweet spot for effeciency

also I've considerable doubts as to the ability of the "roadster" to live up to the performance quotes

although, the teslas have different gearing in the front and back motor, so one is more optimized for high speed cruising

why's that?

because musk likes to make ludicrous statements and then fall short on them

regarding production numbers and delivery times, sure, but the cars generally have been relatively consistent

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/

no, he hasn't

hasn't what

been consistent

that's what I'm saying

wait

you said "he" hasn't

the vast majority of things he says at best suffer huge delays