pwa wrote:kwackers wrote:Cugel wrote:What is the practical purpose of 0-60 in a couple of seconds? Is it James Bond device to break the neck of the assassin sitting in the back of your car with his gun?
The practical purpose was for Tesla to sell the idea of a milk float to a V8 loving public.
Top end Tesla's cost the same as Ferrari's and other 'sports' vehicles.
Having won over a fair chunk of petrol heads and gotten the idea that electric cars aren't really milk floats most folk will now wonder off and buy something they can afford with respectable if not neck breaking performance.
Or one of the Aston Martin electric cars soon to be made a few miles down the road from me.
Oh no, in Wales, I am ashamed
One top reason to travel by train is safety, the risk of being killed as a passenger is almost zero