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Old 04-08-2014, 01:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
niky
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Very hard to take a roller-dyno of an electric car at face value. Rollers have a problem with cars that produce lots of torque right at the get-go... and with no gears and an electric motor, the Tesla produces a crapload of torque at the get-go... which is why we typically dyno newer cars in fourth or fifth gear (helps give you a longer pull to get the turbo spooled up, too).

Also have no clear read-out of torque versus rpm and/or road speed... which is much more important. Also no word of SAE corrections, which would have been silly to apply, since it's not a gasoline motor... ...but some machines do this automatically, anyway.

Granted, the performance of the Model S in terms of 0-60 does suggest it really makes that much power at the wheels. That is one hot momma.
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