• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Now, of course, an unaided[sic?] Cybertruck will kick the absolute shit out of a base 911 T, but that wasn’t Elon’s claim, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?

    I mean… I’m all for a good Elon bashing but this is pretty transparent propaganda-style writing here.

    Not too mention they did reproduce Tesla’s claim in 2 of their 1/8 mile runs. So… Yay?

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      6 months ago

      they did reproduce Tesla’s claim in 2 of their 1/8 mile runs.

      Their claim was that it would win on the 1/4 mile

      Electric vehicles have no/single speed transmissions. Of course they can accelerate faster, because they don’t have to have the driver operating the clutch and cycling through all the gears before they get up to pace.

      What they did is basically say Usain Bolt is the world’s fastest marathon runner by filming his 100m race and “extrapolating”

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        6 months ago

        Is the Cybertruck the Usain Bolt of 1/8 mile races? From the article it sounds like they compared a mid 1/8 miler with a massive launch advantage to a mid marathoner.

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        6 months ago

        But “debunking” that claim by pointing out that “he’s not the fastest he’s ackshually just a little bit slower than the fastest” is doing musk’s work for him.