Sorry gas heads : Watch an electric car destroy a 791 HP Challenger Hellcat
 

Sorry gas heads : Watch an electric car destroy a 791 HP Challenger Hellcat




Bahahahahhaha....

the challenger doesn't know how to drive his car...

pretty obvious the green thing is driven by an idiot

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Ha, couldn't get it out of 1st gear.

My toddler gets off the line better than the challenger did.

I think the better question is why Dodge painted that fucker bright green?

The tesla will take a maclaren off the line.

i like the color - today every car is white, black or silver - boring

AWD with electric motors that produce full power at 1RPM or RWD with way too much power that needs time to get into the power-band. Electric FTW

Ugh, lol.

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I used to own this

https://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/...7c&oe=5560B2B3

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its a tribute to the high impact colors dodge had during the muscle car years ...
High Impact Colors

One of my all time favorite cars. Cars. Not color. lol Actually that isn't bad, the Dodge green would embarrass me.

fear the battery! :1orglaugh its not there yet, but will be in a few years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cA1doO_9h8

What happens over 120?

Where's the drag race video with the Volt?

You don't need to be a physics major to understand the massive difference in the torque generated by an electric motor vs gas.

It's well documented that an electric powered car can severely outrun a fossil fuel powered car on the dragstrip. It has been done many times.

It's probably worth mentioning the Tesla is almost double the price of the Hellcat at over 120k. Plus with the addition of drag radiaks and a decent driver the hellcat is a 10.7 second car.

confession......(and a digression)

mid-late 90s I bought a cab 968 in pink with purple interior for the wife.

The most embarrassing car I have ever driven. (picture me and a buddy stopped at a traffic light by road workers in south London) ;)

The wife thought it was lovely.. ;)

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i have seen combinations like that and those are the moments you wish Porsche would not do everything their clients want :1orglaugh :error

It's very beneficial on the drag strip that the torque is instantly applied. This allows the electric-powered cars to be "fully torqued" the moment the pedal is pressed. The combustion engines, on the other hand, have specific (usually narrow) ranges of RPMs and gearing that lead to good torque. It's a losing battle over short courses.

Mark,
The video (removed of bad driving skills) is a prime example of compairing apples to oranges.
The video would have had more meaning had the Tesla S lost...
It has considerable advantage in weight, drag, etc as well as being AWD and traction control etc...
Compared to the heavy, rwd, car with the drag coefficient of a cardboard box...

If you would like to compare a car that is close to the Tesla S I'd suggest the GTR...



Tesla Model S vs Nissan GTR Drag Race - TESLARATI.com

Even with a considerable reaction time on the light the Tesla is not a real match a gas powered equivalent.

It is not bad driving skills (besides the start, what was that - did he react on time and faster than tesla, but made some technical mistake or did he react too soon and decided to stop?), something major happened to him (no higher gears?) so pretty pointless to even discuss that.

apparently yall didnt notice the charger fouled thats why the hesitation at the start he had already lost

not saying the tesla wouldnt win but it would have been a lot closer...

You still drive a *gas* powered car :2 cents:

Its a sign of the end of days....

The first time I have agreed entirely with a post by Mike. ;-)))

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please tell me it was somewhere like bermondsey :thumbsup

Worse Streatham way lol

Apparently , between the blown kisses etc , I could decipher that it seems there was some debate over which one of us was the girl in the relationship ;-))

My mate was an older gentleman of the showmen profession (a pikey) and was not amused lol. He suggested they refrain from discussing the matter further less there be a "fucking row " , during which time he claimed "he would beat them unmerciful".

I believe this resolved the debate ......... as they were now agreed..... I was the girl :(

;-)))

LOL

...we never drove that car again LOL

lmao, that's brilliant :1orglaugh

Tesla would have won the race even if the challenger did not fail on the start. It says alot about electric cars potential.

Lets just wait for the technology to evolve and mature and we will have something really good instead of gas powered cars.

It's all about torque. Electric car has the advantage of instant torque, and it's lighter.

I am not impressed by car speeds any more. Jeep makes a Cherokee that does 0 - 60 in under five seconds...

Not sure why everyone is assuming this. The hellcat has been recorded posting 11.2 on stock tires and 10.7 on drag radials, both of which are faster than the time the tesla posted in this video.

Mr. Prince has remained conspicuously quiet since the OP. :1orglaugh

It's a ********** post -- if it isn't a completely false article, it's a completely false video. His sources are almost as bad as yours. :2 cents:

+1 Spinning Ain't Winning :thumbsup

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Careful with that ax Eugene!

No where. We're already max'ed out on the cool factor as it is.

;)


If you want to compare apples to apples, the only true apple-apple test is to have 2 identical cars race. But at that point, it is not a competition between cars, its a competition between drivers.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter too much, because who the winner is in any race, can be argued. You could say that in your video, the GTR won the race, which it did. If you're a nerd like me though, I would say "maybe, sure, but the Tesla is still cooler". EV Cars are fast, quiet, more energy efficient, higher tech, blah blah blah blah... Taking Tesla out of the equation for a minute, if you race an EV Car against a Mustang for example, The Mustang will probably win, but wasting a lot of energy to do it. Hence, to me, EV is "cooler" and always "wins".

Peace.

Clearly it was a woman driving it. ;)

...twice ! :)


It can run on gas yes, but I try to keep it charged and drive in EV mode only. Even at the new low price of $1.04 per litre, I don't want to buy a drop of gas unless I have to.


I had a busy day.


Why is it a false video? I know what you're getting at, but still. The Tesla beat the Challenger. Of course the driver of the Challenger was terrible or maybe the car had problems. I didn't name the video.

The truth is, both cars are fast, but the Tesla, to me, is cooler and graceful.


Oooh. 'Floyd?

Check this out!
 

i so love the color green, so i dont mind the color at all :)

:2 cents::2 cents::

driver seems new for the OP vid

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If the time of the electric car was 10 seconds then it would be worth posting.

On a secondary note, the electric car needed to recharge for 4 hours after the race, while the dodge was driven home right after.... LOL


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Best production TeslaS time that I could find was a 12.8. The Hellcat had a 10.4. So this is more about bad (read really really really bad) driving on the part of the Hellcat owner. If anything the video shows how much better AWD is at putting power to the ground than RWD alone, and that's about it.

OP's not really a car guy so he's not up to speed on the christmas tree.


No. EV cars are not typically fast, plenty of ICE cars are quiet, yes, EV cars have the potential to be more energy efficient from well to wheels but that is not guaranteed and finally and most importantly, EV cars are not higher tech than ICE cars. Off the top of my head, the new corvette, the M-B s550, an Audi or 3 and others are all much higher tech than any EV.


Even lower priced cars like anything with the Ford ECOboost motor is higher tech than EV. smart diesel, etc. plenty of high tech ICE in 2015.

The guy in the green car has no driving skills whatsoever.

Hey Mark,
I guess we can forget that the bases of your post was about an EV destroying a gas car...
This is what we call back peddling...

How about we take a road trip me in a gas car you in your EV..
Say MTL to Halifix... How many days will that take you should take me less than 18 hours...

I have nothing against EV cars they are great commuter cars.
But they are not as green as you seem to think they are. Where do you think the power comes from?
To meet the power demand of a shift to EV cars what do you think would need to happen to buildup the power grid? Copper wire doesn't grow in a farmers field.
How about the different parts that go into making the car.
When you start to factor in the big picture your nice carbon foot print does not seem so green. Add to it the disadvantages EV's currently have and what would be needed to compensate for them...

Beautiful car :thumbsup don't really care about the color.