I drove one for the first time a couple days ago. When I say I drove one, I really mean I drove several but each trip was less than a mile from the dock onto the ship. But I was able to notice a few things.
I drove the Model S and whatever the SUV is. One thing I noticed is as soon as you let up off the accelerator, the car slows. Maybe it's cause it was in shipping mode, but I've driver other all electric cars with shipping modes and they didnt engine brake as hard as this thing does.
The other thing I noticed was that the seats in the Teslas weren't as comfortable as say the seats in a mercedes or lexus of the same price.
I liked the big screen with the big back up camera. I like how there's no ignition button, it's literally press the brake and put the car into drive and go. When you park, you put it in park and open the door and the car shuts off. Pretty cool.
I own a 2016 Chevy Malibu, and people, not actors tell me it's practically the same thing.
It's shit.
Ethan Lewis
>2016 >driving government subsidized "green" cars
Aaron Morgan
>I drove the Model S and whatever the SUV is. One thing I noticed is as soon as you let up off the accelerator, the car slows. Maybe it's cause it was in shipping mode, but I've driver other all electric cars with shipping modes and they didnt engine brake as hard as this thing does.
Iv driven a few and the hard engine brake is very difficult to get used to. I thought there was a parking brake or something I wasnt aware of. It slows down so quick I feel like I am brake checking people
Jaxson Taylor
OK so it wasnt a shipping mode thing. Yeah there's no parking brake either. That takes getting used to. When we were on the van I said "Does the tesla not have a parking brake?" And someone said "If it did it doesn't now" And we all laughed.
But yeah it almost seems like there's a potential for being rear ended.
Angel Richardson
It made me wonder if the brake light turns on or not when it's slowing down like that. I believe it's a regenerative charge thing. It slows down quicker than I am comfortable using my brakes in normal traffic because I like to be predictable and use my brakes slowly and way in advance so I don't get rear ended but this fucker stops so quick it actually shifts you forward like a poorly shifting automatic..
James Walker
It has regenerative braking that might be why there is such a noticable engine brake. It might engage slightly right when you lift.
Noah Flores
You can adjust the regen braking or turn it off. You can also modulated it with the accelerator, so if you let off only a bit it will only regen brake a bit. It won't regen brake at all if it's fully charged or drive unit is too hot. It's really no different driving any other modern electric car except you can modulate the regen and you can also enable the car to creep. Transport mode has no bearing on the regen braking
But it does have a parking brake, it's on the the same stalk you put it into drive with
Daniel Garcia
>You can adjust the regen braking or turn it off. That's good to know. We were speculating that it was probably a setting that could be tweaked, then we we started wondering if 3rd party tuner shops are able to get at those kinds of settings. Do you know about any of that? Like if I buy a tesla, are there mom and pop outfits that will mod my shit and get rid of all the gay factory settings right now?
My gf and I actually put down a deposit on whatever the poor person model is called.
Cameron Brooks
It seems like constantly dumping all that regen braking energy back into the battery will wear out the cells pretty damn quick.
Also do the brake lights come on when you hit the regen hard? It looks like most Tesla drivers are riding the brakes quite often when they shouldn't really have to.
Landon Rivera
I see so fucking many of them because I live near NUMMI. Literally pass by their factory all the time driving up to Berkeley.
Hunter Young
No, independents can't do anything like that. You can only set it on normal or low, or force it to be off by charging the car to full. You really wouldn't want to turn it all the way off, would pretty much defeat the purpose of an electric car and kill your range by a huge amount.
Dominic Cox
>My gf and I actually put down a deposit
lmao
Nolan Price
Charging the battery won't wear out the cells unless the battery was already fully charged, which is why it doesn't regen at full charge. Regen activates the brake lights. You hardly need to use the brakes at all.
Mason Rivera
>You really wouldn't want to turn it all the way off, Yeah, I would. Also, it sounds lame that it's constantly changing. Like I drive to work and there's no engine brake cause the car is fully charged, but then I have to deal with it on the way home. I'm surprised this doesnt get discussed more.
>would pretty much defeat the purpose of an electric car and kill your range by a huge amount. I dunno bro. I've driven all electric toyotas and nissans than barely engine braked, if at all.
Gabriel White
Sounds like a Model S isn't for you
>man this is so lame that my car is charging while I drive, increasing the range by a huge margin >I wish I could turn it off so I could burn through brake pads and spend more money and time charging the car
Jordan Murphy
More like I wish I could drive it like a normal car and coast without slowing down and having to push on the accelerator when I wouldnt normally have to. What if I wanna bomb a hill? I gotta put it into neutral? Why cant the engine brake brake... wait for it... when I push on the brake pedal?
Also it wasnt just the model S, the suv did the same thing.
Landon Miller
Sounds like you wouldn't like a manual car either. The short answer to all your questions is what you want is not what 99.99% of other people want, nor would it make sense for a car that's pushing the limits of electric car range to have a mode that decreases it significantly for no real reason. The regen on low mode doesn't feel much different than the amount of engine braking you would get from most manual trans cars.
Julian Sanchez
>The short answer to all your questions is what you want is not what 99.99% of other people want, Thats weird cause the one other reply ITT from someone who's driven one was that he didnt like it So me and him don't like it, and you do.
Julian Johnson
Its definitely different expirience. I like instant torque but ill pass until i can charge it as fast as i can put fuel in "normal" car.
Best thing was racing peope on stoplights. >mfw when humiliated faggot in m5 v10
It was all great until some guy left me in left lane trying to overtake him. My confidence was gone.
Jaxon Scott
Cool fiction, bro.
Thomas Cruz
I don't like it or dislike it, it's just a feature of the car. Prospective buyers like it because instead of losing the energy through heat in the brakes, which is wear, which is money, it returns energy to the car. It's like saying what would you rather do, pay $300 for rotors and pads, or not pay anything but get 100 gallons of gas for free. Pretty easy decision.
Jackson Butler
>fiction ??
e60 doesnt stand a chance against tesla p90 from standstill
David James
I'd rather be able to take my foot off the accelerator and not lurch forward.
Ryan Morris
Wow youre really stupid.
John Morgan
theres no reason to unless youre stopping
are you saying that you shift a manual car into neutral just to roll down a hill?
Noah Flores
I dont drive a manual and neither do 90% of people that own brand new cars.
Jordan Ross
99.9% of people that own brand new cars also don't own electric cars. Like I said, sounds like it's just not for you.
Cameron Wright
>99.9% of people that own brand new cars also don't own electric cars Well that's wrong. The comparison to a manual transmission is stupid anyway.
I googled "tesla engine braking" and this was one of the top results. This guy didnt like it either.
Youngun here (21) the first car I ever drove was my mom's fusion hybrid, and after learning to drive with a hybrid, I have to say that I really don't like how most gas cars drive. I find that slowing down while my foot is off the gas is actually helpful more often than not (maybe not slowing down as rapidly as the speeds you suggest), and the fact that my mom didn't need her brakes changed for 85k miles (could have gone a fair bit longer too) is a plus.
Based on my experience I'm inclined to believe that it's really just going to take some time to get used to it and you'll love it.
Lucas Price
It's not engine braking, it's regen braking, so you are unlikely to get relevant results. That guy's complaint was it's awkward to change modes on the fly, not that it was too strong. I don't see why the comparison to a manual trans is stupid, because a manual trans car exhibits the exact same characteristics.
James Watson
90% of modern cars all drive the same, all across the board. They're mostly just all bland driving experiences. I couldn't find much difference in the feel between a 2014 malibu, 2015 avenger, or a fiesta. You're not really missing out not having driven many modern gas cars.
so teslas drive like an old slushbox 3 speed? I hate that shit in my galaxie. I can be going 60 and if I take my foot off the gas, within 5 seconds I'll be down to 45-50.
