Amazing achievement for Tesla. I would say that every record set comes with nuances, and haters are always going to come up with a bunch of ifs and buts, lol. It's just noise.

 

Agreed. Doesn't bother me because I know they say what they say because it bothers them

This will just push others to make their cars more powerful. The new horsepower wars are just beginning.

 

It reminds me when Lexus LFA set Nurburgring record, and some people on this site were arguing the record was not legit because a one-off "production" hypercar called Radical had a faster record.

 

Just haters. I can't understand why every Tesla thread has to have someone question anything good they do. Just ridiculous.

 

thanks for setting me straight!

For anyone interested, this chart was helpful!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...geable_battery

According to that table the Model 3 uses the bigger 2170 [aka 21700] and not the 18650!

 

Definitely a great achievement.

Imagine if the interior is plaid

 

For the overall capacity it does not really matter whether they use 21700 or 18650, since 21700s are larger you can't physically fit as many of them into the pack as smaller cells. But it's better to use less quantity of physically larger cells because it makes it easier to control each one of them individually, or at least in groups of several cells.

Take old bulky laptops of the 90ies and 2000s for instance, most of them had a battery pack containing six 18650 cell. The battery pack had a charge protection circuit where if the pack's voltage dropped below minimum or overcharged over the maximum, the circuit would trigger protection and the pack had to be replaced. Li-Ion batteries are dangerous, and overcharging a battery or charging a battery that had been previously discharged below minimum can cause a fire. With these battery packs, often it was a just a single cell that has failed, rendering the whole pack useless. And even that single cell could revived if the circuit allowed to charge it individually, at a slower pace, so it doesn't overheat. I have a whole box of 18650 batteries that I disassembled out of old laptop packs and reconditioned with a smart charger.

Obviously with Tesla packs containing thousands of cells you can't just brick the whole pack over a single failed cell, so greater control over individual cells is required. I am not sure exactly how they are set up, but the most ideal way would be to have a logic circuit on each cell that monitors charge cycles, temperature, voltage, rate of charge/discharge and controls how the cell is being charged. This is how modern laptops and cell phones manage their batteries. Tesla also has a heating/cooling system for their battery packs to control optimal temperature range.

And while Tesla makes their batteries as safe as possible, in a bad crash they can explode and cause a spectacular fire, much like a tank of gasoline.

 

And you wondered why I said I don’t need the Plaid+. There is no reason for me to get anything faster that the regular Plaid. I’m still leaning more towards the M5 at this point because I need more from a car than just performance, I need a little more luxury than what Tesla offers.

 

I can't wait to take one of these bad boys for a drive when they are available for test drives in a month or so!!!

 

Honestly, the extra ~100+ miles of range was more enticing to me than the speed.

 

Same here - range is always KING.

 

A 155 mph 1/4 trap speed is pure insanity lol.

 

Think about how much quicker I'll get everywhere! LOL

 

Especially jail

 

Haha, so true!