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Originally Posted by julianh72
Ten thousand newton-metres of torque.
TEN ..... THOUSAND ... newton-metres.  |
Hi Julian,
That will be at the wheels though,
after gearing.
By comparison, the Model S P85D delivers about 931 Nm from the power unit.
I Googleed and from what I could see, the Model S P85D has a gear
ratio of 9.73 to 1.
So 931Nm * 9.73 would be 9058Nm
at the wheels on the earlier
Model S P85D. So the new Roaster would be about 10% more.
You definitely want the tyre grip to match.
I recollect watching a video of Kimi Räikkönen when they were testing the current
F1 power units a couple of years back at Barcelona.
Rounding a corner in the Ferrari, he must have planted the foot a little too much or too early
and with the additional torque provided by the Energy Recovery Unit it spun up the tyres
and the car went sideways into the barrier. So even for an experienced rally car driver, it requires
a fine touch to drive a car with that much torque. For the rest of us, computerized traction
control on a production car like the Tesla would come to the rescue.