Tesla Auto recently scored the highest in NHTSA tests, nearly a perfect score in the crash test. How can that be for an all-electric car you ask? Well I was a bit surprised, I really didn’t expect this because electric cars are usually heavy because of the batteries underneath and so they have to try to make the rest of the car lighter to keep up. performance, so how did they do it? have to? Well, modern materials certainly help, although they also add cost. Tesla apparently has not only that going for it, but some very good engineering as well.
Still, crash tests are just one big topic with cars today, perhaps not even the most important for all consumers. Fuel mileage is. But don’t electric cars have both going for them? Yes, they actually do, but then there’s that problem with the scope. Now, the other day, some cyclists in our think tank were contemplating the challenges while taking long-distance bike rides on busy roads or in large metropolitan areas, namely smog and car exhaust, boy, not healthy at all, not a single one. a little.
What about the Tour de France with all those chase cars, motorcycles and what not, around all the human cyclists breathing at full capacity with big lungs? It’s not a healthy scene at all. Shouldn’t they use electric cars and motorcycles for the chase cars, team cars, and media cars? I think. Of course, if such a command was made, then what? All those electric cars would need to be charged every night, and if they weren’t fully charged, they would be parked on the side of the road not chasing the Pelaton.
A fair number of electric cars perform just fine until you ask them to go up steep grades and super long distances. But in fact, isn’t that how the Tour de France is designed to test human will, spirit, perseverance and try to break riders, put them through so many grueling stages until a winner emerges? In that case, those same hills would break the rear end of most electric cars today, couldn’t hang out with the Tour’s elite human riders, but maybe a car company could make that work.
If I were a betting man, and mind you I’m not, then I’d bet on Tesla’s latest sedan to make the grade and compete alongside the best human cyclists in the world. And you? Please consider all this and think about it. .