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  • keep in mind he has a passenger... ever driven your own car with passengers? it makes a difference takes longer to break. and longer to accelerate... hey if you're out to win a race don't take passengers

  • that is such a quiet car.

  • So what races are they putting Tesla's in?

    Win a couple races and Tesla would get more buyers from the wealthy racer wannabes.

  • Hey i just played this track in FM3. hahaha

  • THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE FIRST MAN-MADE EARTHQUAKE.

    I am not wrong. I challenge you all. With this so many lies fall.

    Man-Made earthquakes… The U.S. account of the damage caused by Nikola Tesla in the first major earthquake made by man is in this 1912 government paper, “The Earthquakes at? Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in September, 1899.”

    Los Alamos National Laboratories TOP SECRET

    KEELY IS “KEY” …THIS IS TRUTH…

  • It just needs one more gear lol

  • Did the batteries last long?

  • are you sure that's not sarthe? straights seem too long to be le mans

  • it's both. it's the circuit de la sarth, but it's still called lemans. the short course is called the bugatti circuit.

  • cool beans! thanks!

  • Soon enough people will be modding cars not with parts but with programs :P

  • it's sa in a future we'll can't listen to the v8 sound of a ferrari or the boxer on a porsche but electric cars are the future and there is nothing we can't do

  • that a really fast electric car i want one

    who gonna give 100000 euros

  • yeah it Tesla Roadster limit one gear up to 125 MPH at high rpm like 13,000 RPM, I think better get 3 speed Automatic help less rpm save battery watts and 3 gear high more MPH.

  • Not the way electric motors work, ICE are so inefficient that they need a tranny to keep that sweet spot for torque and HP are at there peeks. Electric motor do not have such a dramatic curve and so you don't need a tranny. then extra weight and useless parts and friction would turn it into a slower car.

  • I wish he could of passed him.

  • @ neonoggie

    wtf dude higher voltage lowers amps as well as higher amps lower voltage to get the same power output, its simple principles. The motor will be ramped with a frequency drive as well between 0 and 400hz approx so load on the gears isn't pushed to max torque, but the problem with electric cars is we cant store charge effienciently yet or make safe nuclear power fuel cells once we can its goodbye fossil fuels

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  • it's funny that the Aston Martin's engine 50 feet away is much louder than the Tesla the camera is sitting on top of :)

  • Top end isn't as much but it looks like it out-breaks the Aston big time. Put them both on a normal twisty road instead of a racetrack and the Tesla would give it a real run for its money.

  • @TheHolySpirit Well aren't you a stupid fucking expert who has never touched an aston or tesla in their lifetime LOL

  • The fact that you could keep up with the Aston in front of you says enough about electric cars. :)

  • Cool Vid to watch!!! Love it!... What is that like "hot laps" so nobody tries passing each other?

    THe Aston Martin in front of you is a real beast OMG!! But your Tesla kept so close to him! I love electric cars.

  • That car is cool! I would buy one if i could.

  • they cost 92,000 pounds

  • Gotta get one of these ... Electric is TIGHT!

  • im confused....email me an indepth answer on my youtube account...but in an electric motor for more torque dont you simply increase the voltage...speed=amps torque=volts ....so just increase the voltage to get more torque...it drains the battery faster but hell who cares if you reduce 200some miles to 80 "racing" miles

  • As technology moves on further I expect we will be able to set the performance output ourselves just by buttons eventually, it's still very early days but it's impressive how far we have come already

  • Thats not how it works. It all comes down to power, and has nothing to do with volts alone or amps alone. Higher voltage = higher amps, if the motor has the same resistance.

  • Close the roof or windows if your trying to race! Love the Tesla though, that car is the future.

  • it has 150 mph's and 15k rpms on meters, it's electronic limited by 125 mphs, and it clearly can go 150 mphs whithout limit.

  • Yes, and with a second gear (which is so not necessary) it can speed up 200mph. It's incredible.

  • The tesla has so much potential

  • Needs more gears, if you're to have winning straightline performance...

  • The electric motors they use have an almost straight power band that starts to decline only after around 7K rpms, according to the Tesla site. This means that more gears are unnecessary because the car will stay at optimal torque up until high rpms.

    Wait, I forgot, this is youtube: STFU u stuupid idiot, u don't know wtf ur taking about. moran. go ern a degree in science and than u can talk

  • Oops, meant torque curve of course, I need my coffee. BTW, kidding

  • Umm... torque does not equal speed. It might accelerate fast, but unless you lower the gear ratio, that's all it'll do. It doesn't need to be a lot lower; something like 6:1 maybe (just guessing), but that's what'll bring up speed when driving long straights. Long straights are currently the Tesla's weakness, as the speed tops out too soon.

    I hope that was clear enough. :)

  • Ahh! I see, I thought you meant it needed more gears for acceleration. Yes I agree, 120 top speed is quite slow for a sports car. That was the only point when the Aston Martin took a big lead.

  • Oh, and I'm one year away from a computer science master's degree, thankyouverymuch.

  • Did you have the windows open?

  • Holy crap your car is quiet!

  • modify the 2 speed gearbox to have two high gears instead and use battery swap every two hours then it should be an interesting exercise for Tesla

  • " weeks ago I had the chance to have a testdrive

    in a Tesla Roadster. Just up and down the road. The Tesla fellow told me what the controller set the topspeed to 125 mph to save the drivetrain, but it will go over 180 mph in free run. But then there is no warranty

  • From what I know final version is limited to 130mph by gearing since it has only 1 gear. @ 125mph it's already at ~13krpm! Older ones had 2 gears but gearing only allowed somewhere around 135mph. I think what the fellow meant is the Tesla is limited aerodynamically to 180mph w/ 250hp (which it is); I don't think the gearing is enough for 180mph even in the 2 speed. Though Tesla can always make a track/racing version later with a multispeed gearbox & it should be able to reach fairly high speeds.

  • acceleration is so much faster with these electric cars but yeah lacks the top speed

  • the roadster is quick for a normal car but some of these Le Mans cars are not normal cars. it should expect to be left in the dust both in acceleration and very much in top speed. but with a second higher gear it could be enlightening to run

  • It seems like the Tesla's top speed (125mph) is too low for this race.

  • Admittedly yes it is too low. The good news is that this isn't its true top speed, its been electronically limited to 125mph... lets get hacking!

  • And blow up the engine!

  • Nah, its just a big spinning magnet (basically) there's nothing to blow up. Crashing at high speed on the other hand...

  • Unless you change the differential ratio or add a gearbox, you'll have some trouble reaching higher speeds. The "magnet" (actually, just a piece of inert metal) is spinning at over 15K RPM already at that speed. It might be difficult getting it spinning much faster.

    Now, speed is not all. With the high torque and quick reaction it might be able to make up for the lack of top speed. After all even fast race cars spend little time above 125mph while on track.

  • No engine to blow up

  • Weird. That Porsche is so comparatively loud that it sounds like the Tesla has an internal combustion engine in it.

  • it's an aston martin

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