Tesla Model S P90D (2012)
Tesla, maker of high-end electrified automobiles, based in California, is going through a bit of a tough patch at present (October 2018). But for the past ten years, the company's fortunes have only ever looked up.
Some of this was smoke and mirrors - the company is worth more than the Ford Motor Company, despite never having made a profit. The rollout of engineered products though, shows that real progress has been made in creating an electric vehicle consumer product that the customer was willing to pay considerable amounts of money to own.
There was, of course, the original Tesla Roadster (a much modified Lotus), but the real product that catapulted the company to prominence was the Model S, launched in 2012, and now in its sixth year.
The Model S is now the best-selling luxury car in the US.
The car is large, nearly 5.0 m long (196 in), with a long wheelbase, allowing for the package of the large battery. For context, the battery makes up 800 kg or so of the vehicle's 2,250 kg weight. The lightest model S weighed in at 1,961 kg, the P60, with a 60 kw.h battery pack, and reduced range.
Incidentally, the number in the model description represents the battery storage capacity. The largest battery providing energy to the P100D - 100 kW.h, yielding a driving range of approximately 500 km.
The Tesla S has been on my list of vehicle to model for quite a while now, but was a request from Instagram's back2brick, as a custom build, as my 500th Instagram follower.
The Tesla Model S also meets LUGNuts' 104th Build Challenge theme, - "The Science of it All", - for vehicles with science-based names.
Tesla Model S P90D (2012)
Tesla, maker of high-end electrified automobiles, based in California, is going through a bit of a tough patch at present (October 2018). But for the past ten years, the company's fortunes have only ever looked up.
Some of this was smoke and mirrors - the company is worth more than the Ford Motor Company, despite never having made a profit. The rollout of engineered products though, shows that real progress has been made in creating an electric vehicle consumer product that the customer was willing to pay considerable amounts of money to own.
There was, of course, the original Tesla Roadster (a much modified Lotus), but the real product that catapulted the company to prominence was the Model S, launched in 2012, and now in its sixth year.
The Model S is now the best-selling luxury car in the US.
The car is large, nearly 5.0 m long (196 in), with a long wheelbase, allowing for the package of the large battery. For context, the battery makes up 800 kg or so of the vehicle's 2,250 kg weight. The lightest model S weighed in at 1,961 kg, the P60, with a 60 kw.h battery pack, and reduced range.
Incidentally, the number in the model description represents the battery storage capacity. The largest battery providing energy to the P100D - 100 kW.h, yielding a driving range of approximately 500 km.
The Tesla S has been on my list of vehicle to model for quite a while now, but was a request from Instagram's back2brick, as a custom build, as my 500th Instagram follower.
The Tesla Model S also meets LUGNuts' 104th Build Challenge theme, - "The Science of it All", - for vehicles with science-based names.