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Tesla Model S
The large electric race car
Range, speed, acceleration ... the weaknesses back… in fact almost an American-style limou-
attributed to electric cars were fading away, sine, capacious enough for a (possible) third
and now the Tesla Model S has just blown row of seats facing backwards. We expected a
them out of the picture. "Supercharged luxury trunk cluttered with oversized batteries. Yet
sedan," writes Le Monde. The Figaro, in a lyri- another illusion! It offers 1640 litres of luggage
cal effort talks of: "The Californian manufac- space. And the absent engine gives you a front
turer’s sedan is a mutant of the road." And us? trunk: 150 litres of additional space. The actual
Luxury, style, silence and power! We’ve been driving experience - how can it best be defi-
to totally won over to the electrical cause. ned? By surprising, intimidating, exhilarating.
To illustrate the change, the centre of the dash
Range : 500 km. Top speed : 210 km/hour. has a17 inches touch screen ... reminiscent of
Power, 350kW (476 CV). Acceleration? Go for the glass-cockpit of a modern jet.
this! It can hit 0 à 100 km/h in 4, 4 second, an
immediate and linear acceleration made pos- Claude Marpaud
sible by the electric motor couple and the Tesla Motors
absence of a gear box. Obviously the Ferrari Rue du Pré-de-la-Fontaine 10 - 1217 Meyrin
FF can beat that: 3 seconds, but with 12 cylin- Tél: +41 43 344 73 57
ders and 660 CV for a 1880 kg car rather than Teslamotors.com
the 2106 kg of our big luxury five-door hatch-
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