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Originally Posted by chad86tsi
Here is a video of a model 3 on the nurburg ring, the battery starts to overheat only 1:30 into the lap (1:50 minute mark in video).
In a similar video on same track two guys take out a track modified Model 3, the driver mentioned the car starts to cut power shortly after the battery overheats. Overheat starts at 10:20, and driver mentioned power loss at 10:55.
the car consumed ~40% of it's battery charge in just one lap at the 12:25 mark.
At the end of that one lap at 11:35 the display (dash) shows multiple overheat alarms (tires/brakes/battery). At 13:10 they mention the weight of the car was overheating the tires.
At 13:35 he mentions a lap time od 8:13. On the "list" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...eife_lap_times), a BMW Z4 beats that time.
Scroll to the bottom of that ^ list, the official non-modified model 3 performance time is 9:00 flat, 5th slowest to make the list.
These are not track cars. Autocross or beating minivans at stoplights, sure, maybe... |
when you say "mini vans" is that code for BMW's?
seriously, watch more than the two videos....there are several others that show them blow by plenty of BMW's, Audi's, Mercs, etc...and those lap times posted on fastestlaps.com are real and examples of how well the cars perform...less than 2% of the population is ever going to track their car so beating "mini vans" aka BMW's on a daily basis in the real world is much much more likely than worrying about how many laps you can do before recharging