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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
The guys at Throttle House would tend to disagree with you. This 4 year old video has a Tesla Model 3 Performance competing with an Audi RS3 and a BMW M2 Comp, same day, same driver, same track. Did quite well actually.
https://youtu.be/9Pu9046wX9g?si=SnkjX-A2HBK7gvXA
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I watch a ton of throttle house and can tell you that they only did 5 laps in that model 3 performance. Thomas does 1 warm up lap, 1 cool down and 3 fast laps for EVERY car on that channel. I think the point people make about ev’s not being road course ready are true. You just can’t take them and do multiple 20-30 minute sessions. Most (probably all) ev’s don’t have the brakes to withstand that abuse. It takes too long to charge them back up when they run out of juice (which they will when being run that hard).
Fwiw I agree with everything else you have ever posted on these boards about ev’s and I am not someone who likes ev’s. In fact I like very little cars that don’t have at least 8 cylinders
I personally don’t see myself in an ev until 10+ years from now. I have a home but I am waiting for “wave 2” of ev’s to come out because I feel all these ones out now are going to be seriously outdated. I also buy 7+ year old cars as daily’s.
I also acknowledge that manufacturers could care less if their ev’s can do road course work as I would say less than 1/100 of the population takes their vehicles on road courses.