Tesla gets its juice in a torrent of amps - lithium ion battery pack
On Saturday night, I bombed everywhere in Hollywood.
Electric Tesla sports car, a patientwith-torque, carbon-
Half-fiber mosquitoes-
There are a lot of awesome camera batteries behind the seats.
Perfect night for cruising, cool and moonlight.
The city's silver cars, like Campari and creme de menthe, are drizzling.
When I got up and down the Vine, a Porsche Carrera C4 took the flank on my left and slammed his engine ---
A rough, unpleasant break, a gas murderpowered crows.
Of course, I don't have an engine for rap.
Tesla's electric buzz at low speeds sounds like a toaster with bagels.
I sheepishly shrugged in the direction of the Porsche driver, hiding behind the colored glass.
I turned West at sunset and he followed me.
He took the Porsche door. to-
The door with Tesla and guns-six again. Oh, I get it.
He wants to run to the next light.
Too bad for him.
What happens in the next 2 seconds is the core and soul, essence and spirit of the sports car.
This is the trick-
Trick pony is probably better than any sports car on Earth.
We call it "rolling acceleration" in the industry ".
"At a speed of about 20 miles per hour, I stepped on the pedal, and the power electronics module summoned a fierce flood of amps, injecting vitality into the winding of 375 kilometers. volt AC-Induction motor. Instantly --
I mean, now, what's wrong with me? --
276 of the motor-
The torque feet are converted into silly acceleration.
Total number of active parts: 1.
The street lamp passed me like a tracking bullet.
My little mental circuit crashed.
Pop up with thrust.
God grabbed my guard and removed me from his thumb rubber band --style. Wow.
Meanwhile, on the No. 19 Porsche
The power of century machinery is taking its own sweet time.
Driver must clutch, transfer to lower gear and cancelclutch --
If he is talented, it will take about half a second.
When he stepped on the accelerator pedal, the throttle in the throat of the Porsche opened, and the nozzle began to use the high-
Test and variables-
Angle cam rotation to maximize intakevalve duration.
The flashing flame in the cylinder can now exert maximum force on the piston.
But it takes precious milliseconds to overcome the inertia of the engine's reciprocating mass. -
Piston, Rod and crankshaft--
And convert the force to torque (rotating force ).
Then, the torque must pass through the clutch assembly and the cross-axis, and finally pass on to the wheel, on which it will eventually have a lever effect on the overall quality of the car.
Porsche did not accelerate until now.
By this time, of course, Tesla has let it die.
Tesla Motors
My history is very short and painful. I will not repeat it here.
It can be said that the Silicon Valley electric car company, founded in 2003, always seems to be wandering between its valuable ambitions and its crazy, capricious arrogance.
It turns out that creating a car company is better than PayPal co-
Founder and billionaire Elon Musk-
Now Tesla's chief executive-ever thought.
Only in the past few months will the first sports cars come to customers.
The company's survival depends on getting an additional millions of private capital and millions of federal loan guarantees so that it can propose S-for it-
The series will be released next month. We'll see.
But what can't be doubted now is that Tesla sports car is an excellent machine in a very strict range: stiff, well classified, highly concentrated, dead
Sexy and fast. Zero-to-
The speed of 60 mph is less than 4 seconds and Ferrari is fast.
On a tight technical track, Telsa will knock off the pants in your garden --
All kinds of super sports cars.
And it's hard.
I only have a 24 hour car but I drove it like a Taliban Gillette salesman and it never even blinks.
During Tesla's long march into the market, the blogosphere debated how cars could travel 53 KW miles. hour lithium-
Ion battery pack.
Well, it turns out that these discussions are academic because the car is too small to be cruel and you will send out long before the battery comes out.
Officially, a mix of moderate driving can take 220 miles.
Meet me at the massage therapist's office in Paso Robles.
Telsa's metabolism is very much like the Lotus Elise it is based on: light weight (2,750 pounds), agile, uncompromised, and fun to walk around the corner.
No auxiliary steering is the game
The car is fast and accurate, even though the wheels are loaded and fought back at HeightsG cornering.
The feeling of the brake pedal is firm and progressive, and there is almost no manual to betray the inheritance of the system.
"Brake" is actually a synthetic combination of caliper and motor regenerative braking effect.
Is Tesla worth $109,000?
Well, obviously Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Matt Damon, David Letterman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, if you have one.
But I still have a reservation.
Cars are surprisingly fast at speeds below 70 miles per hour, but at speeds above 70 miles, motor torque begins to evaporate.
More than 100 miles per hour makes the car feel hard, and the Porsche 911 Turbo just keeps pace with it.
The inside of Tesla is rather bare and not elegant.
For example, the JVC stereo/navigation system is a product of Pep Boys.
The seat feels like it was carved out of whale bones.
And, although riding was surprisingly soft most of the time, in the "1812" Overture, it hit something bigger than the manhole cover and the suspension crashed like cy.
So, not perfect.
But great.
I expect that one day they will install a Tesla sports car at the Smithsonian Museum.
No matter what mistakes and excesses Tesla has made, no matter what stupidity will be in the future, the sports car is here now, a divine spark, a lightning-like animation of the brand new auto industry.
You have to respect that. --dan. neil@latimes. com--
(Starting text of the infobox) 2008 Tesla RoadsterBase Price: $109,000 Price tested: $122,145 power system: 375 v ac induction motor, air-cooled; single-speed, fixed-
Than transmission; rear-
Wheel Drive Battery: 53 KW-hour lithium-
Liquid-ion battery pack
Coolled power: 248 hp, 5,000 hp
8,000 rpmTorque: 276-feet at 0-
Weight 4,500: weight 2,750-
60 miles per hour: 4 seconds Wheelbase: 92.
Total length: 155. 4 inchesEPA-