Tesla Roadster Sport 0-60 Instrument View

[oisiaa]

So how does the gas pedal work? When you let off it decelerates under regen braking? So if you want to just coast do you have to give it a little gas so the pointer stays on 0kWh?

[scottkan357975343]

dang, those jets spool up Fast!

[JacksonOCSDX]

60 MPH in 4.2 seconds! OMFG!!!

[alexcandy1411]

Sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

[knightrider1545]

Reminds me kinda of Back to the Future with the Delorean DMC-12, lol

[unixsuperuser]

Electric Cars FTW...

[Dasoderdies]

electric cars are the fucking best shit ever.

[hub123power]

On this car when you step on the torque pedal, big power is being made xD

[MrBieradio]

trolleybus

[KPAracing]

Electric motors will never have the torque of a Diesel motor no matter what. Maybe in 1000years time they will

[MrMrKingfisher]

@KPAracing

you don't know anything, right? the torque of an electrical engine is right now that powerful like a Diesel. And that torque is independent of the Turns per Minute

[FreeRiderDZ]

@MrMrKingfisher electric motors are special because they have way more torque than any combustion engine with same size. the engine in the roadster would be similar in size to a 1.3 litre Diesel engine. KPAracing doesn't know shit

[KPAracing]

@MrMrKingfisher Fair enough mate! Not really an electric vehicle follower. But i do know the basic principles of electric motors.

[diegomayan]

@KPAracing The already have

[454ns]

quick. my neighbor has one of these but sadly it never leaves the garage, ever.

[wantapgt]

@eljayone974 no sir. The tesla has a direct drive single speed transmission directly linked to the motor.

[Ejayone974]

There is not only one gear but contininous variable transmission...

[mikekoz68]

@tomcatdcn Don't make me laugh! Around town, stoplight to stoplight, your Chevelle wouldn't stand a chance- it has instantaneous torque and only ONE gear- you could only beat it in a top speed race

[gamermax007]

sounds like a tram xD

[tomcatdcn]

My 396 Chevelle would fucking roast that thing.

[mierzhen]

@tomcatdcn that might be true, but you would take longer to reach 60 mph because of the gear shifting. as far as the tesla roadster, it doesn't have to worry about gear shifting since the motor is about the size of a 5-gallon bucket.. very powerful, 100% torque efficiency.. plus you save money on gas since it runs fully on electricity. no Unleaded Premium required.

[tomcatdcn]

@mierzhen power shifting :) near instant gear changes

[pac850]

@tomcatdcn Grow up no one talks like that anymore unless they're 16 which you probably are. And no... your chevelle wouldn't.

[tomcatdcn]

@pac850 acutally, 16 yr. old talk more like this wen on the internet. u r just jelly of my car dood.

[mr13377]

over 5 seconds, why do you guys think its amazingly fast?

[vivtin]

4.7 seconds...impressive

[mierzhen]

the car that will free us from oil companies

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

I like muscle cars better

[FruityLoopsas]

You saw the electric usage bar in the right.... WHITE MEANS IT USES ELECTRICITY, GREEN IT PRODUCES ELECRICITY...... You have to agree guys... car is electric, it uses electricity when it goes, it produces electricity when it brakes, and it uses electricity again :DDDDDD

[kreko123kerek]

it sounds like my mom vaccum cleaner . i hope that car wont suck me into the battery when i start the engine ^^

[tkdman360]

that is donk

[peterkim1999]

@subtheo "torque must be massive compared to a thermic enigne."? Huh, okay, then we should really see a lot of semis switching to electric motored trucks then...

[bobbygreer101]

@peterkim1999 Look at Traction-Engined trains all around the world. Diesel generating power for an Electric Motor driving the wheels.

[LMF5000]

@peterkim1999 Electric motors would be great for semis actually. The problem is the batteries - they can't store enough energy to drive a semi all day if they're to weigh a reasonable amount. However, if one could use a fuel cell to turn diesel (or hydrogen) into electricity on board the truck, and use that to power the motor, then the energy storage problem is solved. We just need to wait for fuel cells to advance enough to be able to do that :)

[peterkim1999]

@LMF5000 I guess so, but at any rate, it's definitely cool on a car. I am hoping Tesla become a major global player for engineering and marketing their 100% EV's. But I wonder how the earthquake in Sendai/Fukushima Japan will affect the delivery of Model-S this year? I was looking forward to that model going prime time.

[LMF5000]

@peterkim1999 If I was Tesla, I would be worried about the number of major car companies that have jumped onto the pure-electric bandwagon this year (like Ford and Renault). It's a mixed bag - on the one hand that means more choice for the consumer, on the other hand the electric versions of originally-engine-powered cars made by the big car companies are generally not as high performance as Tesla's cars so they won't impress people as much when comparing IC with EV cars.

[henrikmk]

@LMF5000 I'm thinking that it was Elon Musk's intent to make other car manufacturers start making electric cars, so if Tesla go bust or settle for niche cars in the future, it won't matter much, since not much money is lost for Musk. Instead, a huge environmental gain is possible for the world. Neither building rockets, nor cars will make Musk a billionaire, but he will heighten the standards by which cars and rockets are built, and I think that's exactly what he wants. No one else is doing it.

[xradio86]

@LMF5000 Toyota is financing Tesla not at 100% but they put money into tesla

[MrEnrich987]

there's no sound in this video!??!?!?!

ahahahahaha IT'S THE FUTURE!!!

OPEN THE EYES!!!

[NearTheLimits]

So a 200 KW (275 HP) car can beat a 490 HP Ferrari 430. Just amazing.

[untouchabledriver87]

@NearTheLimits Electric motors are mostly torque, and from a standstill, that's where it counts! :) Pretty much, an electric motor has an unlimited power range (not going into quality of motors, but just going along with it). Pretty much, the more power you can supply to the motor, is what it'll put to the ground. :) It would be kind of cool to have some "super capacitor" that builds up some extra juice that could be activated like nitrous oxide! VROOOOOM!!! hahahaha Or hsould I say *whooosh*lol

[NearTheLimits]

@untouchabledriver87 absolutely.

[kevin83FL]

@NearTheLimits

Not only can you not compare electric HP to gasoline HP, the torque band in electric motors is instant at 0RPM and flat rather than having to rev up to +5k rpm and the HP is instant, the same way. The only way you can compare HP ratings is pretty much to almost double an electric motors HP and that would be what it would compare to in a petroleum powered engine.

[NearTheLimits]

@kevin83FL absolutely right on that.

[HenryGAD]

We need to get rid of internal combustion engine powered cars!!

THIS is the future and the present ;) LUV IT!!!!!!

[omgsean1]

that is electric motor can use to charge battery when left out accelerator then push it again feel like prius can do it because it hybrid make acc fast than other gas cars :D

[WorldBoxingTV]

Sounds Like a jet engine. Awesome!

[NCDropkickSquad]

That's so cool....run's a 12.6 in the 1/4 too!

It's worth the price in the amount of gas you will save!

[mbdulka]

aW gauge -- envy!

[Tbolt1000TForLife]

sounds awesome, you can not ony hear but "feel" the power of the motor, sounds like a jet engine reving up too

[heinrichmaster]

Where is the wheel spin?

[idontcare80]

@heinrichmaster The reason most cars spin the tires when they start off from a stop is that the engine has to be disengaged from the wheels and then revved to an rpm where the engine produces a good amount of torque. When the engine is abruptly engaged to the wheels a combination of the inertia it has and the sudden application of a good amount of torque to the tires breaks them loose. EVs have an advantage here because it has peak torque available from 0 rpm and there is no clutch.

[heinrichmaster]

@idontcare80

Thanks for the great explanation man! These engineering achievements are truly remarkable.

[TheTVLicence]

4.5 ish

[Maine181000]

I love electric car sound! I have a prius and electric power is a gentle winding sound.

This sounds like A JET ENGINE FROM THE FUTURE!!!

[SimulacronX]

Thank you FINALLY a video with original sounds of this marvellous car.

[praetorian2150]

the tesla is def one of the coolest things to come out in the 21st century

[steys81]

@praetorian2150 agreed, I absolutely love this car. Too bad it's among my 16 year old price range. xD

[ibuggle]

What is the instrument in the right? It's the current measures? Or the power measures?

[marksjdejong]

@ibuggle It's power. It says KW which stands for Kilo watt

[MadHatterTruth]

omfg thats faster than a Mclaren Mercedes SLR . thats why 3 people were killed fuck me

[sootyferrari65]

sounds like a jet speeding up

[gutaplayer]

thats fast than a lambo wow

[theparadisedream]

i want one 8->

[fixdeluxe1]

Awesome.

[subtheo]

Awesome noise. You can really "hear" the power of the electric motor. The torque must be massive compared to a thermic engine.

[sviini]

The engine spins only in one direction and have only 1 forvard shift witch gets it on 190 KM/h so I gues everything must be prette good :-D

[pa3op89nbg]

What noise? This cannot be compared to a internal combustion engine sound... in any way...

[76driver]

@subtheo

it is!

[Fauket]

@subtheo 2000Nm (2 times the V12 TDI) awesome

[euroschrott]

@Fauket thats not exactly right - you got a transmission and so the torque at the wheels is maybe times 4 higher in the first gear than at the engine. The imporant difference is, that you got no wheel slip when using a electric engine. A direct electric drive can be controlled much faster and for every wheel individually.

[ekuwa69]

So the max regeneration is 40 kw. Nice.

[lambofanX]

Very nice!