>take a Model S >add a 2-speed gearbox >top speed is

Not a single gearbox originally designed for cuck-tier ICEs can handle the brutal instant torque of the Electric Master Race.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/cars/2016/03/man-hacks-tesla-firmware-finds-new-model-has-car-remotely-downgraded/

Tesla HATE gearboxes, so they'll remotely brick your car if you do it

>>16566330
>top speed is now 250+
for about 3 minutes

>>16566330
They did but the torque kept blowing up the gearbox

>electric
>gears

why

besides its electronically limited at 155

theoretically it already has the power and means to do that speed but good luck finding a place to do it

>>16566362
it produces less torque than a top-spec SLS, surely that can be fixed by just using a better gearbox

>>16566345

Authoritarianism: The Car.

>>16566330
wtf i love electric now

>>16566375
SL65, I mean

>>16566372
>good luck finding a place to do it

supercars with top speeds of 215+ have literally no purpose of having speeds that fast, because almost nowhere on earth can you get that fast. but we still do it

>>16566372
part of the problem is that you can only draw so much current from the batteries before the motor literally melts

to make it even heavier? great idea.

>>16566330
Do you know how an electric motor works?

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>>16566362
>but the torque kept blowing up the gearbox
you should only be allowed to post here after passing a 7th grade physics test.

>>16566386
But the sl65 produces torque on a curve, the tesla would produce maximum torque at 0rpm and that sort of sudden slam is more than the gearbox can take

>>16566481
It's not like every time you step on the gas you're dumping it off a transbrake

>>16566375
apparently not

>>16566338

If a drag transmission can hold back 3000hp with a transbrake then even a shitty Chinese transmission would handle the Tesla's blender motors. But Musk is a kike and is just trying to make as much profit as possible. Though most people rarely go above 200kph so it doesn't really need gears.

>>16566493

>Tesla
>Missing sales targets quarter after quarter
>All that investment in Utah-opia
>Profitability

Lel.

>>16566493
You know teslas a have 4 individual motors, one for each wheel, right?

>>16566493
>elon musk is a kike for not adding this feature that literally nobody wants and is totally impractical

ok

>>16566511
but muh marketing. buy our stocks goy, t-they will skyrocket in the next 5 years!

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>>16566512

The rear motors are coupled together into a gearbox and differential, same with the front motors. So no, it doesn't have a motor for each wheel.

>>16566524

Yeah adding range and speed is totally impractical!

>>16566527
>this is high tech engineering according to hipsters
l fucking mao

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>>16566526
>not owning tesla stock

it's like you enjoy being poor

>>16566537
why don't you show us the 5 year graph :^)

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>>16566543
ok

>>16566527
Weird, I always thought they had four. Same logic applies though.

>>16566481
They could modulate the torque with electronics the SL65 probably does this

>>16566388
thats what you think, there are pleanty of highways to speed on

>>16566388
because almost nowhere on earth can you get that fast.

>He's never been to Saskatchewan.

>>16566330
>>add a 2-speed gearbox
They tried this in the prototypes. Wanna know why it didn't make production?
Because the thing kept fucking breaking.

>>16566330
Tesla is going to be a crazy car company in 10 years time, they could make a super car that smashes Ferrari's, trucks with massive torque, 18 wheelers that self drive, let's hope their built quality goes up

>>16568442
Fuck Tesla

>>16568461
exonn mobil is giving out raises i see

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>>16566449
the original roadster concept was a two speed retard. kept exploding so they went to a one speed.

>>16568470
go back to /ovg/ you idiot

>>16568614
t. exxon mobil shill

>>16566338
>AMG bi-turbo V12s aren't a thing
Your bait is shit, desu.

>>16566481
What the fuck do you think happens in an sl65 amg when youre rolling at 80 and you pin the throttle? You get a kickdown and you basically dropping the transmission into gear when the engine is at peak torque

>>16570187
This.

>friendly reminder the Sl65 produces 1000Nm of torque
>friendly reminder the Q7 V12 TDI produces also 1000Nm of torque

>>16568442
nah, Tesla's target is the mid-low market
might not seem like it now, but
>release Model S, pretty normal luxury sedan only it's electric and costs $100k for the top spec
>miles ahead of everyone else technology-wise, even if the car was shit they would've immediately cornered the high-end market
>then go for Model X, basically the Model S but with a bit more utility, a bit more exclusivity and a bit more luxury for a bit more money
>meanwhile everyone else is catching up in the high-end market
>so you start teasing the Model 3, a $30k alternative to the Nissan Leaf and other completely shit low-end electrics
>everyone is already riding your electric cock, so it's like the best thing ever, now all the hip less-rich normies can have a Tesla as well
>and once Porsche, McLaren, Mercedes, etc. all come out with their own luxury/performance electrics, Tesla will lose a massive chunk of the high-end market, but nobody else is making something in the low-end that you'd ever actually want

>>16566537
You're not rich until you sell, friendo.

>electric can't fast

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a22978/new-electric-vehicle-speed-record/

also white zombie and killacycle, they switch from series to parallel (or vice versa) and it serves the same function as shifting gears.

>>16570155
>diesel fiat

>>16566330
>How would you like your tesla mileage Senpai?
>Just fuck my shit up

>>16570743
>electric can't fast
nobody ever said that
that's basically the only thing they are good at
going fast, for a short time

>>16570199
But it's not instant torque. with an electric car the rapid torque changes are what was killing the transmissions.

They were originally going for a 2 speed in the roadster btw

>>16572233
they could tune the motors to feed in the torque slowly to preserve the box. fuck tesla

>>16572393
yeah but then you wouldn't be doing 0-60 in sub 3s

>>16566375
Tesla can't even make working door handles expecting them to understand gearboxes is just daft.

>>16568417

Because they used cheap shit, just like their interiors

>>16572424
wat? tesla interior is nice

>>16572393
Yeah but in the roadster that would have lost the edge the car might have had. Anyway, I know they did tons of work trying to make it work but they eventually dropped it.