Tesla introduced a new sports car, and it's too fast for this planet
Acceleration to 97 km / h takes 1.9 seconds. Ilon Mask, spare!
Now not everyone remembers that the Tesla company started with the model Roadster - a terrible, but fast sports car, built on the basis of Lotus Elise. And here ten years later Ilon Mask presented a new Roadster.
That's what the first Tesla Roadster looked like in 2007
Strictly speaking, this is not a roadster. This type of body with a removable central section of the roof is called Targa. And the form came out rather awkward. We are used to the fact that a powerful sports car must either have a long hood, like a good Mercedes, or a forward-spaced cab and engine behind the seats, if it's a mid-engine layout, like Bugatti or Lamborghini.
But Tesla Roadster - neither fish nor meat. Something sluggish with a large dome of the salon. And this is a sign of time! The heaviest and the largest part of the power plant is a flat battery. It is under the floor of the body and removes many layout restrictions, including lowering the center of mass - the shape of the body is not so important for weighting.
Spitting on the classic canons of super-car building, the designers still managed to make the car memorable. And to confuse the Roadster with something else will not be so easy.
The central section of the roof and the longitudinal bars can be removed and saved on the solarium.
However, everything described above - insignificant nonsense in comparison with the declared characteristics. Power is not even mentioned. But the torque - 10 000 Nm. Ten thousand! Remember, we recently told how the Koenigsegg Agera RS developed more than 450 km / h on the public road? So, he has a power of 1360 hp. the torque is "only" 1280 Nm. Yes, eight times less! In addition, electric motors do not need to be untwisted: all the traction they give out immediately, from zero speed. What does this mean in practice? Look at this short video, and you'll understand everything.
The maximum speed should exceed 400 km / h. And it's amazing: even the cashiers of the McAvto already know about the ability of electric vehicles to lightning start, but the maximum speed of the car does not shine on the batteries. Today, all the hypercar, capable of developing 400 km / h or more, not even hybrids, but pure gasoline monsters. It seems that Tesla is going to take this line of defense of traditional cars.
Instead of the usual steering wheel - a racing steering wheel, in the center of the console - a giant touch screen By the way, if you do not rush headlong, then the run on one battery charge will approach 1000 km. And if you drive, then 60 miles per hour (97 km / h) the speedometer will show in 1.9 seconds after the start. The acceleration from the place to 160 km / h will take 4.2 seconds.
Anyone who can not sleep without a new roadster should prepare at least 200 thousand dollars. True, this should not be done in a couple of months, but by 2020. You can save by coming to the supermarket with your package and replacing the steaks with burgers in your diet.
It is characteristic that the Roadster and the prototype of the electric truck Tesla Semi were presented not at the motor show in Los Angeles, but for some two weeks before it. Once again Tesla Motors sets itself against the entire automotive industry.
Electric tractor with autopilot Tesla Semi But we do not doubt: the answer to the Americans will follow. In the meantime, it is better for them to switch from shocking demonstrations to the launch of the Tesla Model 3 production, which will not come out at least for a tenth of the design capacity.
