The reality of EVs is that they all provide more or less identical driving experience - immense amounts of speed in straight lines and pure control around corners. But you can't really make something nimble or chuckable when it weighs 1.5 tons.

(Calling it a "roadster" is cute, but this has nothing in common with a Boxster or Miata. If anything, the ICE analogue would be muscle cars.)

Because there are no real unique driving characteristics, the only engineering you can compete with is raw speed or price. That and crazy gimmicks.

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827a 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You should go look up the weight of a 911, Boxter, or Miata. And then, I suspect, you will not return here to reply to this comment. You'll invent some other reason why EVs can't be "nimble" or whatever, because it can't be your worldview that's wrong, it has to be the world.

	▲	legitster 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Have you actually taken any of these cars along a twisty country road? They are not at all similar. 911 is not really a roadster - it's a full on sports car. Even then the older ones top out at about a ton. Same as the Boxster and Miata. Most serious sports EVs start at 2 tons or more. It's really impressive what they can do to hide the weight, but because it's all digitally controlled, it's really not a dynamic driving experience in the same way. I think this is an important distinction that EV enthusiasts don't really seem to care about. EVs benchmark excellently against pure performance cars and supercars - but most enthusiast cars are not on the road because of their 0-60 time.

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jandrese an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This thing is covered in cold gas thrusters, I'm betting it can go around a corner faster than almost any other car. The limitation might be G forces on the driver. Maximum performance may only be achievable in self driving mode.

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maxdo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yes, you can, if you think like an engineer. they have suction mechanism, low center of gravity that helps you to beat any ICE counterparts.

You can't call this beauty of engineering a muscle car.

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simonebrunozzi an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> when it weighs 1.5 tons.

Are you referring to the Tesla Roadster? Because, if not, I am pretty sure that most EVs, except for maybe small compact EV cars, usually weights 2 tons or more.

	▲	827a 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The M3/MY are 2-2.5T. The Roadster will be lighter, and 1.5-2T is the same weight class as the 911 and Boxter.
	▲	Sohcahtoa82 44 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yup. I'm pretty sure my Model 3 Performance is around 4,000 lbs, about 500 lbs more than my wife's Honda CR-V.
	▲	maxdo an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		tesla roadster weights 1.6-1.7 tons, thats prob without compressed air. But common, if you buy a rocket car, that is capable to suck itself to the road, you will not care about this extra 300-400 kg of weight, that probably will be compensated by perfect low center of gravity and several motors.