Tesla Owned By The Tango

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I could’ve sworn that someone told me the Tesla was fast. Well, apparently it isn’t as fast as those ugly-ass Tango electric cars. I don’t mind getting beat in a drag race but damn man, this had to be downright humiliating.
 
That Tango really gets off the line because of its size but you'd the the Tesla would have crushed it.
 
well, the tesla did get off to a crapppppy start, looks like he eased into the throttle. maybe the telsa has some sort of limiters built in to prevent 'jack rabbit' starts??

by easing into the power slower, you would increase battery runtime as well as reduce stress on the motor and controllers..
 
I was expecting something completely different...

I was thinking of the physicist and the dance.
 
Who ever was driving the tesla was horrible, looked like he treated that race like he was pulling out of a driveway, the shoe car had at least 3 car lengths way before the tesla passed the line.

Still funny that the tesla couldn't even catch up though!
 
screen shot from high quality version showing the times:

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bahh no edit. So technically the tesla ran a faster time, the tango just had a faster reaction time?
 
Jakalwarrior said:
bahh no edit. So technically the tesla ran a faster time, the tango just had a faster reaction time?
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I think that is just a simple matter that the smaller vehicle accelerated better. Not really surprising but you'd think the Tesla would have done better for $120k.
 
My bad you guys, I screwed that up. Bad screen shot no edit. Those were the times of the previous two cars. Here is the tango vs tesla times in a scaled down size lol.
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Did this race happen before or after the latest executive left?
 
The Tesla is evil. It had a time of 14.[B]666[/B] :p
 
heatlesssun said:
Cool, but this is a bike, a LOT lighter than a sedan. Plus I bet those batteries are dead!:p
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well when they made the bike they had a very hard time fitting all the needed batteries into the small space- honestly i think a full size electric drag car would be easier to make then a killacycle. plus- the tesla and that other car dont really weigh shit either.....
 
Shit, those cars are pretty quick. Not that I didn't expect much less considering how much more efficient electric motors are than combustion. My old 4.6L 1995 T-Bird couldn't run 14s.
 
TheCAD said:
I was expecting something completely different...

I was thinking of the physicist and the dance.
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Tesla the physicist got robbed.

History doesn’t show anything about his dance skills;)
 
Jakalwarrior said:
it does appear to be bracket racing but I looked the fugly lil tango up and apparently they turn 12s.... http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/tango-electric-car.html
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Both cars set records that day in the video, so those might not be production Tangos that are pulling in 12 second runs:

Epilogue: the cars compete in different voltage classes, and thus both were able to set NEDRA records for fastest production electric vehicle that day. See http://www.nedra.com/record_holders.html The previosu NEDRA record for production electric vehicle was the GM EV-1, at 16.26 seconds and 78.76mph
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1) This was a handicap race, so the Tango got a 0.2s headstart on the Tesla.
2) Because the Tango beat its handicap it was disqualified, so technically the Tesla won the race.
3) That particular Tesla had the old gearbox, the models with the new gearboxes are faster.
4) The Tango, at least for now, costs about the same price as the Tesla. Then it's up to you to decide which one you'd rather be caught dead in (which might happen, you never know with Li-on batteries).
 
Ahh, the linear power and acceleration of an electric motor makes internal combustion engines seem like steam powered in comparison
 
Its one thing to smoke it in a flat run. But the tesla would most likely dust that thing on the track.

Kinda like how in that Top Gear EP where the motorcycle dusted the Atom in the first run, but after the first turn the Atom dusted the bike beating it by over +4 sec.
 
Freezebyte said:
Ahh, the linear power and acceleration of an electric motor makes internal combustion engines seem like steam powered in comparison
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bah you young wippersnappers dont know nutin.

In 1906, Fred Marriott drove a steam powered vehicle built by the Stanley Brothers to an amazing speed of 127.659 MPH, (timed over a measured mile).

http://www.steamcar.co.uk/challenge/stanley_steamer.htm

The amount of energy in high pressure steam is amazing but no-one wants to get up at 4am to start stoking the boiler for the ride to work :D
 
My rough reaction time estimate shows the Tesla starting anywhere between 0.3 and 0.5s after the Tango. Driver reaction time is what won that race.
 
Is it me or does not having a fuel burning engine turn me off?

Nothing exciting IMO, these guys could have rather raced slot cars and it would have been more interesting.
 
S3th13 said:
Shit, those cars are pretty quick. Not that I didn't expect much less considering how much more efficient electric motors are than combustion. My old 4.6L 1995 T-Bird couldn't run 14s.
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Wow, my '93 ran high tens consistently :p

They seem OK, but I would like to see a performance-minded electric car. Electric motors have fuckloads of torque :drool:
 
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