🚘 Tesla Model S an all Electric LiON Battery Powered Car, Ranks as the Best Overall Car for 2014 by Consumer Reports, among 260 automobiles tested, whether fueled by electric batteries, gas or diesel fuel, or a hybrid of two fuels. Not only did Tesla Rank #1, it scored the Highest Score ever recorded in CR’s 18 year history of testing Cars.
🚘 Don’t know what TESLA is… In Physics Class we learned about the Tesla Coil, a high-voltage frequency generator. The Tesla Coil is one of Nikola Tesla’s most famous invention in 1891. See Tesla and his inventions below.
🚘 Today’s TESLA is a very exciting Luxury Battery Powered automobile with a 275 mile range.
🚘 In appearance the Tesla does not just get on terms with the two-plus-two Aston, it almost cinches it. The sweeping lines and a callipygous rear give the Tesla the look of a concept car. The door handles motor-out to meet you (one of a number of motorized functions, which must surely waste charge) and the doors swing wide.
🚘 Inside is Tesla’s cabin so unconventional, it’s almost the appearance of science fiction Auto. Seats are cantilevered mounted onto a flat-floor, with an uncluttered full-width floor space. A dramatic digital instrument panel in front of the driver central-displays show charge level, power usage, range, and speed.
🚘 The central facia has the appearance of a very large iPad, with simple and classy Apple-style graphics to go with Mercedes-Benz-styled switches and steering column stalks.
🚘 Tesla Model S electric car is “the answer” I’ve been looking for, you wonder if other motor makers haven’t been sleeping on the job. With Tesla’s share price on fire after recently announcing plans for a new battery “gigafactory” (that’s a factory, then) confirming next year’s SUV and a smaller, cheaper model for 2017, there’s barely a silicon-valley baron without a Model S in his garage.
🚘 Tesla is Fueled by a huge Lithium Ion battery, a single unit that delivers 85,000 Watt-hours of power. To put this Battery in perspective, a 85kWhr battery is equivalent to 16,200 iPhone-LiON-Batteries all linked together into a single huge battery-array. The LiON battery in the Tesla Model-S contains a unique battery-chemistry so that it delivers power and takes recharge cycles for at least 8 years, equivalent to the Tesla battery-warranty, with unlimited miles.
🚘 Tesla SuperChargers recharges Model S quickly, Super quickly. Superchargers are for refueling quickly on road trips. A Supercharger can replenish 50% the 85 kWh battery in about 25 minutes. All Model S vehicles with the 85 kWh battery can use SuperChargers as can properly equipped 60 kWh battery vehicles. SuperCharger (Electric) Fuel Stations will be positioned at convenient locations along major interstates throughout the country.
🚘 Tesla SuperCharger stations the Cost for a "Full Tank of Electricity" is FREE for the foreseeable future. In a Hurry, no problem, the Super-Charger Stations will have two "Fueling" modes, Plug in your Tesla Model S for 20 minutes for 100 miles of Range, 40 minutes for 200 miles of Range or 60 minutes to "Fill the Tank" in this case fully recharging the battery.
🚘 Tesla SuperCharger Stations have another Amazing feature, the capability of the Model-S receiving a 100% Full Charge in 95 Seconds with a "Battery Replacement" performed at the station. Just pull-up over a designated area, and your Model-S’ Battery is dropped-down, and a New Fully Charged Battery is pushed-backup into your Model-S in about 1 minute 30 seconds.
🚘 I witnessed two Model-S cars in line at a Tesla SuperCharger Station, that received Lion Battery swaps requiring about 3 minutes total time for both Model-S cars, 90 seconds each. Filling your 23 Gallon Tank with Gasoline takes about 4 minutes. This service costs $80 for the 85 kWhr battery-swap or $60 for the 60 kWhr battery. When you return from your trip, go to the same SuperCharger Station that swapped your battery, and the station will re-Swap your Car’s original LiON battery fully charged, eliminating the cost for an upgrade to the new battery.
🚘 If you decide to retain the NEW LiON Battery, in other words, you don’t re-Swap batteries, Tesla will "Charge" you (pardon the pun) the price difference between your original LiON battery, and the price of a New LiON battery. This may be your plan, say in Year Two, as aged LiON Batteries may only accept 90% to 95% charges.
🚘 The Cost of a new 85 kWhr LiON Battery is $12,000. If you decide to retain the New Battery Swap, the question is what is the "trade-in" value for your existing Model-S battery that’s 2 years old. The SuperCharger Battery Swap capability commences in 2015 nation-wide, so the financial models are not set as to the price for the battery swap. Since the Model-S battery is warrantied for 8 years, if charging performance becomes a diminished Range, I’d be looking to the factory warranty to replace the battery.
🚘 Tesla developing hundreds of SuperCharger Stations in the USA is an amazing marketing campaign as the "Fill-Ups" are Free. Think about it, travel to Grandma’s with no cost for Fuel, in this case electricity. The Control Panel in each Tesla Model-S has a beautiful Google Maps styled GPS Map, showing in real-time, every location of a SuperCharger Station, and your location of the Model-S, giving detailed directions if necessary, and your Tesla’s Range to arrive the SuperCharger station. For the local folks in south Florida, there is a SuperCharger Station near MACY’s Front door in the parking garage of the Town Center Mall.
🚘 Tesla Superchargers allow Model S owners to travel for free between cities along well-traveled highways in North America and Europe. Superchargers provide a 50% charge in as little as 20 minutes and are strategically placed to allow owners to drive from station to station with minimal stops. Coverage for North America
✔️ Today – 78 stations, Coast-to-coast travel now enabled
✔️ 2014 – 80% of the US population and parts of Canada
✔️ 2015 – 98% of the US population and parts of Canada
🚘 Superchargers are located near amenities like roadside diners, cafes, and shopping centers. Road trippers can stop for a quick meal and have their Model S charged when they’re done.
🚘 Tesla Model S cost for a Fill-Up cost about $0.0311/mile. For a 275 mile range assuming you use Airconditioning, 275x$0.0311 equates to a Fill-Up cost of $8.50, assuming the Electricity charge is 11¢/kWatt, typical in south Florida. To Fill-Up your typical gasoline 4-Door Sedan automobile with 12.5 Gallons of Gas priced at $3.85/gallon costs $48.00, assuming the MPG is about 22 miles/gallon.
🚘 Model S is a rear wheel drive electric vehicle. The liquid-cooled powertrain includes the battery, motor, drive inverter, and gear box.
60 kWh or 85 kWh microprocessor controlled, lithium-ion battery, a rear mounted 3-phase, 4-pole AC induction-motor with a copper rotor, capable of creating 300bhp to 400bhp Horse Power, a Power Drive Inverter with variable frequency drive and regenerative braking system, and a Single-Speed Fixed-Gear ratio of 9.73:1 reduction ratio.
🚘 Tesla Model-S Power Train and Motor. The Electric motor powering the Model-S is a 350 Horse Power alternating current, variable frequency design. The motor itself weighs approximately 250 pounds, with a Copper-Wound Rotor, the internal component that rotates with a Gear on its shaft. Interesting that the Motor is Super-Power A/C motor, and the Battery is a 85 kWhr LiON direct current. Directly right of the rear-mounted Motor is a Power-Inverter that transforms up to 2000 Amps if DC electricity to A/C power, powering the Motor.
🚘 The Motor has a Running Rate of 5,000 to 8,000 RPM. There is Single-Gear reduction of 9.73 to 1 (no other gear-shifting with typical automobile transmissions). Therefore with a Rotor that weighs about 50 pounds rotating at an average speed of say 6,500RPM causes the drive shaft to rotate at about 500 RPM to 800RPM, this represents an incredible amount of power on the Wheels.
🚘 The Tesla motor’s Rotor weighs about 50 pounds, which is spinning at an average of 6500RPM, generates an sizable level of power on the rear wheels. The velocity of Tesla’s motor is controlled by changing the Frequency of the Alternating Current and the amount of Amperes of electric current, up to 2,000 amps when desiring fast acceleration from a dead-stop or changing lanes on a highway. This combination of factors controls the power that the driver desires by pressing one’s foot on the accelerator-pedal.
🚘 Recall that a typical gasoline motor runs typically at from 800 to 3,500 RPM in combination with a 5-speed transmission, a very inefficient method of changing the rotation of the drive-shaft, wasting about 40% of the gasoline engine’s power.
🚘 Tesla’s precocious 11-year-old PayPal-funded car maker has big ambitions. Not without just cause, either. In top-spec $124,000 as-tested form, this 16ft 4in long, five-door battery-electric coupé will not only out drag a $250,000 Aston Martin Rapide, but carry two more passengers or twice as much stuff and, at 2.1 tons, weigh not much more. Stand on it, and the Aston will drain its 20 gallon tank of unleaded in about 250 miles, well within the realistic driving range of the 85kWh Tesla S range of 275 mile. What’s not to like about battery motoring? Not to mention that the Tesla Model-S goes from Zero to 60 MPH in 4.7 seconds.
🚘 The Tesla Model S electric sedan is Number One in Consumer Reports, in this year’s automotive rankings. Not only Tesla being in first place, but received the highest score ever recorded in its 18 year history of evaluating 260 vehicles.
🚘 The magazine cited the Model S’s sporty performance and technological innovations, including its 275 mile range. Consumer Reports acknowledged that the car is expensive and paid $89,650 for the Model S that the Magazine tested.
🚘 For less than a third of that price, the Toyota Prius hybrid got the nod as Consumer Reports’ top green car. The magazine also cited strong fuel economy in naming the Honda Accord as the top midsize car and the BMW328i as the best sports sedan.
🚘 The rankings, now in their 18th year, pick Consumer Reports’ favorites among the 260 vehicles its team has recently tested. The rankings are closely watched in the auto industry, since shoppers consistently cite Consumer Reports as a main source of car-buying advice.
🚘 Consumer Reports actually buys the test-vehicles anonymously, and performs more than 50 tests on each, including evaluations of braking, handling and comfort, among en elaborate array of tests and examinations. Consumer Reports’ testing team literally drives each vehicle for roughly 6,000 miles, in assessing the vehicle’s performance on the road in a wide variety of environments and road conditions.
🚘 Tesla Model S Ranks Best Overall Car for 2014 by Consumer Reports among 260 autos tested. Not only did Tesla Rank #1, Tesla scored a value of 99 the Highest Score ever Achieved in the Magazine’s 18 years of testing Cars.
🚘 Plus What’s Not to Like about Driving a Tesla Model-S Electric Car for 3¢/mile when Gasoline Cars costs over 16¢/mile.
🚘 Did I mention that Tesla has an iPhone App that will permit you to find the car with GPS that remains active even when the Car is parked and shut-down. The Tesla App will permit you to TURN-ON Tesla’s Air Conditioning system when the Car is parked and Locked. Therefore, if you are at a lunch meeting with car parked outdoors in the direct Sun in the summer time, You can Power-Up Tesla’s A/C System say 10 minutes before the end of your Luncheon, so that the Car is Cool when you retrieve the Tesla from the parking lot. The App also permits you to Honk the Horn or Flash the Lights, to either scare away possible intruders, or as a tool so you can find your Car in Large Parking Lots.
🚘 Steven Spielberg was recently spotted in Brentwood California driving the his Tesla Model S, an all electric automobile, while heading to a high powered Hollywood luncheon. Apparently, more and more celebrities find the Tesla an attractive vehicle and more importantly they love the fact that it is environmentally friendly.
🚘 It seems the famous 67 year-old screenwriter, producer, and business magnate left all the Porches and Maybachs and went for a Tesla model S. The Tesla is actually fits the famed director quite well as if we were to discuss the vehicle’s interior, we’ll come across a very science-fiction like cabin. The seats are cantilevered mounted onto a flat-floor, an uncluttered full-width floor space, making the Tesla S model’s interior quite unconventional.
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