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0-60 times are nice but I want to know what the 60-100 time is. That's what generally used for 1/4 mile estimates.

Is there any diagrams of information easily available about the couple style used between the motors and the wheel hubs? I wonder how they're done and what the limit of them is with the amount of torque they put out. In a previous life I used to build a lot of race cars and shearing axle bolts wasn't uncommon in drag applications.

It would be awesome to see them test out a full on drag tesla.




This article[1] was posted to Reddit, and included a 1/4 mile time of 10.9s and peak acceleration of 1.1g

1: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/17/8994519/tesla-ludicrous-sp...


I'd imagine pretty good. It's got such a low drag coefficient, and at those speeds liquifying the tires is not as much of a problem. I'd think that the 60-100 times might be more impressive than it's 0-60 when compared to conventional cars!


Looks like an 2012 model that is not the P85 and did not have the OTA performance update from last year could do it in about 9 seconds. For a reference, that's faster than a BMW M5. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03g4UHtCWo




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