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Here's one or two good reasons why you should seriously consider purchasing a Tesla instead of a Lambo for your next Car to cruise on down the Road to Manono,

Tesla Model S Debunks 'No Repeatable Performance' Myth In Lamborghini Drag Race

A Tesla Model S Performance debunked the myth about its lack of repeatable performance in a drag race against a Lamborghini Aventador. Mat Watson from YouTube Channel carwow challenged Yianni from Yiannimize to a drag race battle.

The results revealed how far Tesla has come with its Model S Performance Raven and could be an indication of what to expect in the future from the EV automaker.

The stats for Waton's Tesla Model S Performance are shown in the picture below.



While the stats for Yianni's Lamborghini Aventador are shown in the following image:



The Model S Performance vs. Lamborghini Aventador drag race involved three runs.

In the first run, both drivers seemed to have a good start. Yianni struggled a bit with the traction of his Aventador's wheels on the road, which helped the Model S Performance gain a solid lead.

Yianni eventually started gaining on Watson, but it wasn't enough. In the first run, the Tesla finished the quarter-mile in 10.5 seconds while the Lamborghini finished at 10.8 seconds.

Yianni wanted another go at Watson's Tesla because his tires were too cold and had little to no traction during the first run. In the second run, the Aventador had a better start, but the Tesla was still able to get a small lead. However, Yianni closed the gap between his Lamborghini and Watson's Tesla near the end of the drag strip.

It appeared that the Model S Performance would lose the second run, but it actually tied with the Aventador. Both vehicles finished the race at approximately 10.6 seconds.

Watson said that Yianni had a better start during the second run, which may be why the Tesla Model S Performance's time was .1 second slower than the first race. However, the similar time results of the Tesla Model S Performance was enough to debunk the myth of its alleged lack of repeatable performance.

There are many people who believe that the Model S'—whether its the P100D, the Raven, or other variant—performance diminishes after consecutive runs on a drag strip. Many "tests" from professional auto experts have apparently yielded results proving that the Model S can not maintain its performance during consecutive runs.

Watson's drag race with Yianni seems to say otherwise.

In their third run, the Aventador's tires were warm, if not scalding hot after two consecutive quarter-mile races. If the Model S' "no repeatable performance" myth was true, it should have yielded a much slower time than the first two runs.

However, the Tesla Model S Performance had a good start, zipped through the drag strip, and maintained a strong lead throughout the entire third run.

This meant that the Model S actually got faster in its third run.

Tesla's premium sedan gave Watson a win, finishing the quarter-mile at 10.4 seconds. The Model S actually did better by .1 second in its third run.

What is remarkable is that the Raven Model S is only the fastest Tesla for now. Provided that there will be no delays, the Model S Plaid, which Elon Musk says is equipped with "alien" technology.

That's a variant of the Model S that completely decimated the Porsche Taycan on the Nurburgring.

And this is just the Model S.

The next-generation Tesla Roadster is coming too.

That's a car that Elon Musk dubbed as a hardcore smackdown to gasoline powered cars.

With this in mind, Tesla drag races in the next few years will likely be very, very interesting.


Featured Image Credit: carwow/YouTube

www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-model-s-performance-debunks-no-repeatable-performance-myth-video


Then there's this BS that's hard to believe coming out of "The Swamp" atm

Inept EPA Chief Wheeler Doesn't Even Try To Validate CAFE Rollback

This is what you get when lifelong lobbyists get to run the federal departments they were being paid to influence for years.

It's a murky swamp, indeed.

Unfortunately for those that like clean air - which should be everybody - one of the swampiest of all swamp critters is sitting on top of the agency that is supposed to act in the best interests of the people and protect the environment.

However, when you appoint an ex-coal lobbyist to oversee the department that he spent years trying to tear down, you have to expect a dramatic shift in policy.

The new CAFE rules will greatly reduce one of America's best tools to reduce the negative public health impacts caused by tailpipe emissions. With part two of the EPA and NHTSA rule now officially taking effect, corporate average fuel economy standards for 2021 through 2026 will only need to improve 1.5% year over year, instead of the 5% improvement that was currently in place.

According to a Consumer Reports study, weakening requirements to 1.5% will do the following:

• Increase fuel costs per average new vehicle by $3,200
• Increase net costs per average new vehicle by $2,100
• Cost nearly every state (45 of 50) at least $1 billion in net consumers losses
• Cost all American consumers a total of $300 billion in net losses

Wheeler's appointment was controversial from the beginning, and the EPA was sued by The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth for refusing to release public records concerning meetings and communications with the lobbying firm Faegre Baker Daniels, Wheeler's former employer. While at the firm, Wheeler lobbied for the fossil fuel industry against environmental protections. He's now free to strip the country of environmental protections, and that's exactly what he's doing.

And the swamp thickens...

“Andrew Wheeler is continuing Scott Pruitt’s toxic, polluter-friendly agenda at the Environmental Protection Agency,” said Lukas Ross, a senior policy analyst at Friends of the Earth.

“The public has a right to know just how much power Wheeler’s lobbyist friends have over the EPA. This lawsuit will help expose the dangerous influence of corporate polluters and root out corruption at the EPA.”

By the way Mr. Wheeler, CAFE is an acronym for "Corporate Average Fuel Economy" it's not spelled "CAFÉ". That's a place where you go to meet your lobbyist friends and sign backroom deals to hurt Americans.

One of the best examples of Wheeler's disregard for honesty and truthfulness was written in a tweet he made on March 31st. In the tweet, Wheeler makes two egregious claims, while also taking a swipe at the media, something we're sure his boss always loves to see.

One of the claims he makes is that the new rules will reduce pollution.

Somehow, by allowing cars and light trucks to be LESS fuel-efficient than the CAFE rules in place would have forced them to be, the result will be less pollution. We're not even going to try to unravel that bullshit.

Secondly, and perhaps the greatest lie we've heard from Wheeler so far, is that the existing standards were not attainable by the auto industry, so basically, he had no choice but to relax the CAFE requirements.

If that were true, you might expect every automaker would be applauding the new regulations. You would think the entire industry to be thanking Wheeler for this and making it possible for their companies to conform to realistic and "attainable" standards.

However, that's not the case.

While General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota have all backed the Trump Administration's efforts to lower the CAFE requirements, not every automaker has.

In fact, more OEMs have openly defied the President, and have pledged to voluntarily adhere to California's strict emissions rules than those that have supported it.

Ford, BMW, Volvo, Honda, and Volkswagen have all pledged to stick to the agreement they previously made to meet California’s stricter greenhouse gas and emissions standards, regardless of whether or not the federal regulations were softened.

Wheeler knows these companies have publicly stated that they will voluntarily adhere to the stricter emissions standards, so why would he tweet such a demonstrably false statement and say the standards were "unattainable"?

Because he doesn't care.

He doesn't care about protecting the environment and he doesn't care about what you and I think about him. There's no other logical reason.

However, California has swung back at the automakers that have decided to stand with the Trump administration's efforts to tear down clean-air initiatives.

Starting late last year, California banned state agencies from purchasing vehicles from any manufacturer that didn't agree to adhere to their more stringent emission standards.

Now, if an agency was looking to replace their aging Toyota Prius with a new one, or perhaps with a Chevy Bolt EV, they aren't allowed to. They can only buy from the OEMs that continue to support the state's clean air initiative.

Manufacturers that only make zero-emission vehicles, like Tesla, or Rivian for instance, aren't listed, but by default, qualify for purchase.

Personally, I won't support any of the OEMs that won't agree to support clean air initiatives. I've owned Chevrolets, Chryslers, and Toyotas in the past (and still own a Toyota), but I won't buy another one.

There's too many good choices out there from the manufacturers that actually care about how clean the air is, and support doing their part to keep this world as livable as possible for future generations.

https://insideevs.com/features/407969/epa-chief-wheeler-cannot-justify-cafe-rollback/


No matter what they say or do imo,

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GLTA-AVZH's

Food for thought

Frank