The 8.8-Sec 1/4-Mile Tesla Roadster Will Get Even Faster
Well, this is something to think about. The Tesla Roadster that was unveiled out of nowhere at the semi truck launch last week, the one that can hit 60mph in 1.9 seconds, is the base performance model. There’s potentially a faster one coming.
Why on earth you’d need something faster than a car that can already comfortably blow away the likes of the McLaren 720S and Bugatti Chiron on the drag strip, we haven’t quite worked out, yet. Because you can, maybe?
Anyway, that’s beside the point. An 8.8-second quarter-mile will have Dodge Demon owners crying over their harnesses, but still Elon Musk wants more… albeit acknowledging that a road-legal car that fast might genuinely offend the authorities.
Autocar has quoted him as saying:
“The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars. Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like driving a steam engine with a side of quiche [compared to this].
“This will be the first time that any production car has broken nine seconds in the quarter-mile. [An upgrade is] just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”
Yep, he did just say rocket tech. We can only assume he doesn’t mean that. We can’t imagine the law would appreciate actual rockets being installed in cars…
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How about actually turning a profit first?
Y would a new company want to turn a profit. Spend every cent u can muster on r&d and new plants. They have the potential customers to be the biggest manufacturing company in the world. Think long term .
Smackdown to gasoline cars? How about no.
Gonna happen someday, regardless of do we like it or not
Hey Hammond, wanna drive this one?
https://youtu.be/cdEIWCrL-X4
Tesla: it’s got a million horsepower, yas? It’s invisible, and it’s got cannons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-KLvO0tZ4
Tesla Driver: Hold on gotta recharge my batteries.. NO ANOTHER SPEEDY UPDATE.. Oh wait yay!
‘Hardcore smackdown on gasoline cars’.
So somehow he gonna make the Roadster handle a touge with as much enthusiasm and as much fun as an AE86 or an Amuse 370Z? Or provide the same sensations that you get when you’re in a full race car. Cos if he can, then good on him. But until then, I say to Mr Musk, there’s a reason we love gas cars…
Elon Musk is the kind of crazy that will propose fully fledged hover cars and everyone will lose it because as we all know he is crazy enough to try.
Current specs
200KW battery
0-60 in 1.9 seconds
250+mph
If they upgraded it
400KW battery
0-60 in 0.9 seconds
320mph
quick maths.