Hoovey689

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Tesla Model S vs Chevy Volt drag race ends exactly how you think it will

It may have a sliver of Chevrolet muscle car heritage, but the plug-in hybrid Volt didn't stand a chance of beating the Tesla Model S in a recent quarter-mile race.

As you can see in the video below, shown recently on That Racing Channel, the Model S took the lead in the race right away, hitting the finish line in 12.562 seconds at 108.34 miles per hour. The Volt took a leisurely 17.201 seconds and only reached 80.36 mph. "Hey, that one on the left was so quiet!" a member of the audience remarks about the Model S right after the race finishes. Yes, that's part of its all-electric beauty.

About a week earlier, the same Model S set a quarter-mile speed record for a production vehicle, hitting a time of 12.371 seconds at 110.84 mph. Motor Trend has done better than 80.36 mph with a Volt – netting 16.8 seconds at 81.5 mph – but in a race against the much more powerful and much costlier Tesla, it's just an unfair fight.


http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/05...how-you-think/

Hoovey689

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Neither of these two gents were signed up, and when they sat down next to each other they struck up a conversation and found that both own "EV's". Well one one-upped the other so they said let's let our cars do the talking. And so they lined them up and off they sped down the quarter mile.

Lil4X

Twelve second quarters are impressive, but I wonder just how many of them the Tesla can do before destroying the battery pack with repeated high-current demands . . . Next time, let's see a 500 mile race! Even with regular pit stops to swap thousands of little AA cells, it might be a better test of overall capability.

jadu

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^^^ time for some super caps, and the mightiest of them all, the flux capacitor! lol

Hoovey689

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Wait till the day NASCAR switches to EV's