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Tesla Model X 90D: It’s a car, but not as we know it
Tesla's Model X is an electric car that might well do to petrol and diesel cars what Ford's Model T did to the horse and cart.
March 24, 2017 16:13
Tesla's Model X is an electric car that might well do to petrol and diesel cars what Ford's Model T did to the horse and cart.
March 24, 2017 16:13Welcome to the future, and it comes in the shape of the Tesla Model X. Yes, the Model X is an electric car, yet it’s an electric car which might do to petrol and diesel cars what the Ford Model T did to the horse and pony.
Not so long ago, most electric cars were little more than glorified golf buggies, and about as refined. But here we have a spacious, sensible and luxurious SUV which equals the Swedes on passenger safety and the Germans for build quality.
And whilst you drive it, cocooned in a bubble of serenity and modernity, you don’t have to worry about changing gears, because there aren’t any. There’s no engine noise either, because there’s no engine. What you get instead is actually not that groundbreaking.
There’s a bank of lithium-ion batteries which sends power to an electric motor attached to each axle. But the challenge here has always been to make this system work on a practical level — getting you where you need to go, when you need to go, with enough battery life to get you there — and this is where the Model X trumps over all those EVs which have gone before it.
