Regardless of the veracity of the test: if you bought a Porsche and all you care about doing is drag racing, you shouldn’t have bought a Porsche. That’s not what they’re for, and you’ve missed the point.
Evern worse when you bought a tesla wo you can “beat” a porshe with a trailer. Bro your car is falling appart. BuT i CaN bEaT a PoRsChE
Ok great. I’ll be over here enjoying my drive down PCH in my manual 911T while you’re at the Tesla dealer getting denied for warranty coverage on the cast aluminum front substructure that should have been failed by QC.
If we cherry-pick the quickest Cybertruck run and the slowest 911 run—the best possible scenario for Tesla—the Beast still crosses the finish line 0.229 second behind the Porsche.
That is much closer than I even expected. Electric motors are beasts!
And no, I am not an elon fanboy.
I hate the cybertruck as much as the next guy, but consider its weight difference, that’s still damn impressive.
(Porche 911: 1580Kg - 1780Kg/Cybertruck: >3000Kg)
I’ve always been fascinated by electro motors. I always had remote controlled cars, and always looked at the guys with their little loud ass nitrous cars or whatever they used to fuel the cars. My cars gor faster and faster, even the little motors and speed controllers 20+ years ago were pretty nuts. Then i got to know a guy with a gas powered rc car and was so excited to start and use it. And it was kinda… Shit. To start it was a pain in the ass it was super loud, and the torque was almost non existent compared to a electro motor.
The thing to take away from it, electric motors are super cool, but building a electric car that goes from 0-100 in 2.6 seconds or so, is not super impressive.
Now, of course, an unaided[sic?] Cybertruck will kick the absolute shit out of a base 911 T, but that wasn’t Elon’s claim, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
I mean… I’m all for a good Elon bashing but this is pretty transparent propaganda-style writing here.
Not too mention they did reproduce Tesla’s claim in 2 of their 1/8 mile runs. So… Yay?
they did reproduce Tesla’s claim in 2 of their 1/8 mile runs.
Their claim was that it would win on the 1/4 mile
Electric vehicles have no/single speed transmissions. Of course they can accelerate faster, because they don’t have to have the driver operating the clutch and cycling through all the gears before they get up to pace.
What they did is basically say Usain Bolt is the world’s fastest marathon runner by filming his 100m race and “extrapolating”
Is the Cybertruck the Usain Bolt of 1/8 mile races? From the article it sounds like they compared a mid 1/8 miler with a massive launch advantage to a mid marathoner.
But “debunking” that claim by pointing out that “he’s not the fastest he’s ackshually just a little bit slower than the fastest” is doing musk’s work for him.
