<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 6:58 AM Dave S via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Monday, December 19th, 2022 at 11:19 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>
> The Teslas have similar drawbacks to the 7 series Beemers: they are too heavy and have two additional problems: the moment of inertia about the vertical axis is too high and the weight distribution just is all wrong.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought just the opposite was the case. Aren't the batteries at the bottom of the car, making their center of gravity lower than any other car? I often see safety test videos, where they do tests to see how easy it is to flip a car. But they are often completely unable to get EVs to flip, especially Teslas the center of mass is so low.</div><div><br></div><div>But heavy cars do feel very different from light ones. After driving my Porsche Taycan for a year, it needed to go in the shop, so I rented a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i8">BMW I8</a> through <a href="http://turo.com">turo.com</a> for the week. That was a very light car, and boy did it feel different than the HEAVY Taycan. But still the I8 was no comparison to the Taycan, fun wise. And the Lucid Air Performance addition I have now is in an entirely new class of heavy. I can't quite get the Air to the same G-level of acceleration as the Taycan would do (personal record: 1.32 Gs), surely because of the additional weight. Oh, and of course the I8 wouldn't accelerate till the turbo would kick in at higher RPMs, and by then you were up to the speed limit, so no longer needed acceleration. I don't like going above the speed limit, just getting to it FAST.</div><div><br></div><div>All I want for Christmas is a Tesla Roadster. Anyone think the Roadster will come out in 2023? I hope, I hope, I hope???</div><div>And does anyone think the rumored "space X" option will be something real, let alone street legal?</div><div><br></div><div>And why does everyone only ever report on things like 0 to 60 MPH times? Why does nobody ever report the G level achieved, the measure of that really matters to me?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>