No, no one needs a faster car, but as shown by *checks notes* oh yeah, every other ridiculous, unnecessary engineering achievement in history, the engineering required to achieve this will help out a lot of other things. For example, with an electric car, I’m not that kind of engineer, but I imagine having the…

Ive never seen 2 lap or 5 lap records. Racing is a conservation strategy game. On lap records, it is quite different. Even an IC car will be set up to just make one lap... you get minimum fuel, the grippiest tires that can survive one lap, down force that robs fuel mileage, etc...  it's a different strategy all…

Older prototypes were doing full laps of the Ring without overheating, so it should be able to do a few laps of Laguna Seca, at least.

“Who cares?”

TSLA hasn’t followed any conventional rhyme or reason this year, and seems to ebb and flow on a whim or Musk’s tweets. His missive that these wouldn’t be in mass production for years certainly didn’t help things ahead of the event.

Take a look at those slides.

EVs not only go fast in a straight line, but they can also handle incredibly well.

They got zero government funding for battery swaps and swap stations.

Too bad you didn’t see the $25k car in 3 years.

Or realize you could get a model 3 for $37k, which is only $6k more than the median price of a new car in the U.S.

Or you could buy a CPO Model 3 for less.

Or you could just continue to read Jalopnik, not do any independent research, and remain bitter.

So it’s gone from...

You have exclusive reporting that the Tesla presentation was ‘outright lies’!?  WOW! That’d be big news! Do tell!

Where did they say it was impossible?  I thought it just wasn’t economically viable for the price they’d have to charge.

Yea and are we going to skip right over the part where they promised 520+ miles per charge? C&D managed to get 420+ miles out of a 402 mile rated Model S doing cruise control at 65mph. It will be the longest range of any electric car.

No fanboy but the Lucid Air Dream is $169k which is $30k more for a slower car from an unproven OEM. Wouldn’t buy either but the Plaid is the better option.

With numbers like that, I might be inclined to have a healthy dose of skepticism about this whole thing, except you link the Lucid Air article right in the middle of this one.

Lol. They literally linked the Lucid 9 second quarter-mile article in this one and the tone could not be any more night and day. I’m sorry but this is a bit much. Jalopnik is thrilled about performance until it isn’t? Until Tesla does it? I’m not trying to be an Elon apologist but... damn.

“Nobody needs a car that can do 0-60 in under 2 seconds”

54% range increase is literally the first thing in the first slide.

“It’s absurd that anyone with $150,000 can just place an order for this level of rolling vehicular manslaughter from the factory. If you want to run faster than 12s, you should have to build it yourself.”

Do you also want me to get off your lawn?

the new heat pump system in the MY should make that better and if you keep your car charing wherever its parked then getting the battery into the the efficient temp range isn’t an issue either. Let’s not still act like this is somehow a nascent technology that needs to prove its viability