503 hp @ 6,150 Pricing Engine Electric Power 503 hp @ 6,150 rpm (375 kW) Torque 487 lb·ft @ 0 rpm (660 N·m) Engine Electric How fast is the Tesla Model S P100D? 155 mphTesla Model S P100D – Specifications … Continue reading →

Non-refundable order fee: When you buy a Tesla, there is a $100 non-refundable order fee that is charged in addition to the sticker price. Destination fee: You’ll have to pay a $1,125 destination fee for the delivery of your vehicle. … Continue reading →

9 g. Fighter jets can pull up to 9 g vertically, and the more a pilot can take without blacking out, the better their chances in a dogfight. Some pilots wear “g-suits” which help push the blood away from their … Continue reading →

Typical g-forces in a motor-vehicle collision. According to GSU’s HyperPhysics Project, a 160 lb person—wearing a seat belt and traveling at only 30 miles per hour—experiences around 30 g’s of force in a front-end collision with a fixed object. That’s … Continue reading →

Owning your own truck is almost every trucker’s dream. You have more independence as you’re essentially your own boss. Owner operator trucking rates per mile are generally much higher than company employed drivers because they can run for longer and … Continue reading →

Peterbilt Motors Co. is officially retiring the Model 379 from its tractor lineup at the end of this year, replacing it with the Model 389 starting in January 2007. Introduced nearly 20 years ago, the Model 379 will retire in … Continue reading →

Elon Musk is not, and has never said he’s a ‘bigger fan’ of Edison than Tesla. Musk says Edison was more effective at bringing innovation to market, and Edison was better at that than Tesla. So Musk identifies his achievements … Continue reading →

Teslas do well in water that is too deep for other cars to handle. There has been previous commentary on this subject which has said that a Tesla can actually float in very deep water for a short period of … Continue reading →

In fact, the brand was ranked the lowest of 32 brands in the 2020 J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey. The reasoning behind the low ranking? Build quality issues. According to the survey, Tesla received a score of 205 problems per … Continue reading →

The chief of American electric carmaker Tesla says the company aims to complete a humanoid robot by next year. Elon Musk said last week that the robot, called Tesla Bot, will be designed to perform jobs that people do not … Continue reading →

Price, a professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, and colleagues, tested 33 “healthy and neurologically normal” adolescents aged 12 to 16. Their IQ scores ranged from 77 to 135, with an average score of … Continue reading →

A childhood illness left Bell’s mother mostly deaf and reliant on an ear trumpet to hear anything. Young Alexander would speak close to his mother’s forehead so she could feel the vibrations of his voice. Was Alexander Graham Bell against … Continue reading →

Why did Beethoven go deaf? The exact cause of his hearing loss is unknown. Theories range from syphilis to lead poisoning, typhus, or possibly even his habit of plunging his head into cold water to keep himself awake. At one … Continue reading →

Thomas Edison was a philanthropist. Most of his donations were in the form of support for others who were working on inventions that would benefit… What did Thomas Edison do with his money? Edison resolved that in the future he … Continue reading →

Musk’s SpaceX was the sole winner in the competition, beating Blue Origin and a third company, Dynetics of Huntsville, Ala., a defense contractor. Dynetics also filed a protest with the G.A.O. on Monday. NASA acknowledged it had been notified of … Continue reading →