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.
