Tesla Model S: Consumer Reports' best car ever tested

[GHook93]

This is great news! The electric car is the car of the future. It's what we need to strive for and produce. Tesla is leading the way!

Tesla gets near-perfect score from Consumer Reports - May. 9, 2013
Consumer Reports is calling the Tesla Model S the best car it has ever tested. The Model S, an all-electric plug-in car, earned a score of 99 out of a possible 100 in the magazine's tests.
The score would have been higher but for the fact that the all-electric car does need to stop and recharge during extremely long-distance drives.

"If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110," said Jake Fisher, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports. Fisher called the car's performance in the magazine's performance tests "off the charts."

Depending on price, the Model S has driving range of between 208 and 265 miles. A full charge takes about six hours from an ordinary 240 volt outlet, according to Tesla.

The Model S has already won awards from car magazines like Motor Trend and Automobile, but Consumer Reports is widely regarded as being the most influential magazine among car shoppers. Consumer Reports, published by the non-profit group Consumer's Union, purchases all the cars it tests and does not accept paid ads.

The score of 99 means the Tesla (TSLA) Model S, a sedan that can seat as many as seven people, performed as well or better than any automobile the magazine has ever tested. The score is not unprecedented -- most recently, it was earned by theLexus LS460 in 2009 -- but no car at any price has ever scored higher.

 

[GHook93]

To anyone rooting against the electric car, shame on you! 20K sold a year is not too shabby, esp at the $70K price tag!

Tesla gets near-perfect score from Consumer Reports - May. 9, 2013
Industry analysts have credited the quality of the Model S, in part, with Tesla's early success in an industry that has not been kind to start-ups. Just recently electric car maker Coda Automotive went under and plug-in car maker Fisker is near its demise. Tesla, meanwhile, is financially healthy thanks to good sales of the Model S plus deals it's reached to supply components to major automakers like Toyota and Daimler as well as sales of electric car credits, earned under California regulations, to other automakers that sell fewer electric cars.

Tesla had previously stated a goal of selling 20,000 Model S cars this year and has now raised that goal.

 

[t1bbst3r]

They'l sell a lot to Israel I bet, they are surrounded by oil & no one wants to sell them any.

Oh, don't forget they need a new set of batteries every 5 years & there is still hydrogen cars to come .

 

[GHook93]

They'l sell a lot to Israel I bet, they are surrounded by oil & no one wants to sell them any.

Oh, don't forget they need a new set of batteries every 5 years & there is still hydrogen cars to come .

STFU you stupid troll and go troll somewhere else. Israel gets oil from Egypt and has just discovered a LARGE oil and natural gas field that will make them a oil and natural gas exports, so troll other places.

Tesla is selling in the states right now. This is the marker they are first tackling before they go global!

 

[Politico]

They said the Pinto and Mustang II were awesome too.

 

[whitehall]

WTF are they smoking at consumer reports? "The greatest most perfect car they ever tested" can't go 250 miles without taking a six our nap and you have to shell out 70 grand for the privilege of driving the thing? It's a joke isn't it?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

We will have drag the troglodytes into the 21st century. They'll kick and scream and complain about minutia but, we made the transition from horses to cars and we can do it again. The posts here, the ones that refuse to even discuss or consider ... I wonder if their ancestors were the ones who complained when the buggy whip factories went broke.

Apropos of nothing at all, this is supposedly Tesla's death mask.

 

[whitehall]

"We can do it again"? Maybe, but it's clear we haven't done it yet. The private sector might develop alternate energy in the future but a flashy 70K car that has to take a 6 hour nap every 250 miles ain't the "greatest car we ever tested". They gotta be smoking exhaust down at consumer reports.

 

[Mr. H.]

The electricity to recharge its batteries is mostly sourced from hydrocarbons.
Primarily coal, natural gas, and oil.

 

[Old Rocks]

The electricity to recharge its batteries is mostly sourced from hydrocarbons.
Primarily coal, natural gas, and oil.

Not in Oregon.

 

[Old Rocks]

"We can do it again"? Maybe, but it's clear we haven't done it yet. The private sector might develop alternate energy in the future but a flashy 70K car that has to take a 6 hour nap every 250 miles ain't the "greatest car we ever tested". They gotta be smoking exhaust down at consumer reports.

Tesla Charging | Tesla Motors

The Tesla can be charged for 300 miles worth in one hour on the public stations being installed.

Odd the 'Conservatives' here hate the idea of an American made car being considered one of the best in the world. Even odder that they consider the price Elon Musk is getting for it high, when most cars in that class cost a lot more.

 

[Cuyo]

The electricity to recharge its batteries is mostly sourced from hydrocarbons.
Primarily coal, natural gas, and oil.

That's true, Mr H., but I'm sure you're aware that it's an economy of scale. You're getting a lot more miles for a dollar of electric than burning gasoline in an ICE designed to power a single car.

That same dollar of electricity produces a lot less emissions too, if you're concerned with that sort of liberal hippy crap.