Even the Hyundai Ionic can deliver 120 miles for 29k, or Nissan with the Leaf, or VW with it’s new eGolf, or Ford with the upcoming Focus electric. The Honda is 5k to expensive and has 50% less range than the bottom of the barrel.

Imagine how bad their tech must have been few years ago! I am thinking three AAA batteries.

Rush hour would have very little effect on range, even with music heater and all, it should easily make that trip.

But any other electric car is better than that, not just the ones from American brands.

You can’t say definitely needed, when you agree a more powerful cooling system could work.

That depends, most are chunky hatchbacks, but big ones like the Suburban are definitely wagons.

Can we please stop calling it a wagon and say it like it really is, it is the CTS-V hatchback. There is no other wagon with such a little boot. 

Come on, does 97.6 lb-ft sound reasonable? The P100D beats any car to 60mph and most cars to 100mph. The challenger hellcat puts out 8,000 lb-ft to the wheels and the Model S beats it easily. And the Model S is heavy and has very big tires, with 920lb-feet at the wheels, this car could barely move.

Nah, just a more powerful cooling system. Look at the Model S radiator and that of a F-series HD truck. The F-series has about 10 times the grille size and nobody thinks thats overdone, most actually like it. So just increase the radiator size add another coolant pump and you’ll be fine.

Even bigger motors? I guess more batteries are necessary, but not really more power.

The model S has a final drive ratio of 9.43, which means they still have about 9,000 lb-ft at the wheels, over a relatively high rev range, 0-55mph. Now add in just 10-15% of drivetrain losses(this is a Mustang dyno, they aren’t very good for bragging rights, just look up what the hellcat makes at a Mustang dyno) and…

Has been done Jason Hughes has modded his own one. He had a 420hp P85. First stage was a software tune, that raised hp by a bit, then he put in a salvaged P85D pack, I guess the fuse would have been enough, now his car has 570hp, powering only the rear wheels.

On Autotrader there are currently 3 2012 GT500s under 30k. The same goes for the SRT. I took the cheapest prices I could find, so most are a bit above that.

It has an EPA combined range of 315 miles and an EPA highway range of 345 miles. And there should be enough superchargers that you could go coast to coast and down to the Mexican border. For regular charging you’d need some home charging, or a public charger nearby. It doesn’t necessarily need to be one by Tesla.

Any electric motor has that. This is a non liquid cooled one, which has a lower continuous rating, but the idea is basically the same. First the current limits the torque output and at peak power, the power can’t increase, so torque has to go down 1/rpm at that point.

That’s why even the most professional “some dudes” give out only component warranties. So if your pulley rips, they’ll pay for it, if the new supercharger/turbocharger fails, they’ll pay for it. If anything else blows, that they didn’t install, your lawyer will go back and forth between the OEM and the “some dude”,…

Like that’s the metric for cars now, how far they can go. All hail thee Prius, with thy 600 mile driving range.

They hold max torque for quite some time, an electric motor has a flat torque plateau from 0-X rpm. From the dyno sheet it looks like about 60, that’s when they hit the peak power plateau, which goes to about 100mph. They also has some problems with wheel slip, so actual peak torque might be higher.

You can’t do the same thing with a Z06, though. It overheats, too. Maybe Tesla should have invested in more powerful cooling, to keep performance high constantly. But when even GM makes mistakes like that with a dedicated track car, we should cut the startup with the family sedan some slack.

What about Paris, or Stuttgart? They might not be banned permanently now, but a temporary ban, ever so often, on your commuter car would defeat it’s purpose. If I’d had to buy one, as a commuter car for a bigger European city, right now and would know that I’d keep it for some time. I would buy anything but a diesel.