markonline1

They are electric motors so they are all torque! I played with one a while back and this thing accelerated from about 50 to 90 in the blink of an eye. It's insanely fast! Still wouldn't get one though. It sounds like a bloody milk float, and I'm sorry, but sound is important to me in a car.

Bob

Think they had to add a fake engine noise in Switzerland, after someone got hit by one crossing the road as they didn't hear it...

sir_eccles

And now gas engines are getting engine sounds piped in through the speakers.

Pulaski

I think of the Tesla like I think of our induction stove: it's a great piece of technology, and very efficient, but I wouldn't be seen dead driving one.

Boomhauer

Any of you watched the UK TV series "Wheeler Dealer" . About a guy who buys used cars and then has it fixed up a little bit to resell. The guy is entertaining and likeable but he haggles the price down too much. I could never do that, which is probably why I am not in the wheeling and dealing business.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...wheeler+dealer

Boomhauer

Yup. A real stove is gas fired ; and none of that pretentious Aga whatchamacallit either. My dream stove is a Wolf rangetop with griddle and grill.

ellio

Well you obviously haven't tried a Miele.

Pulaski

I think you two misunderstood. We have an induction stove and would not swap it for anything. It can do anything a gas stove can do but with all the convenience and ease of cleaning of an electric stove, ..... but like I said, you are about as likely to see me driving a Tesla as you are our induction stove.

ellio

can it really raise and drop the temperature like gas?

Pulaski

Absolutely, it's like turning off a light switch. If you turn off a pan that is about to boil over there is even no need to lift the pan up, just turning off the power immediately and totally stops additional heat being supplied to the pan. As significant, I find, is that if the pan has boiled over you can lift the pan and wipe the glass surface with a damp cloth without turning of the power! ..... In fact the only reason the glass surface is hot is because it has had a hot pan sitting on it.

And because an induction stoves makes the pan hot directly, rather than making a lot of heat and then transferring it to the pan, cooking is a lot more pleasant in the summer because there is nowhere near as much heat bypassing the pan and making the kitchen hot.

Induction stoves are awesome!

Boomhauer

So why haven't restaurants / eateries switched to induction stoves then?

sir_eccles

Price (capital equipment cost and fuel) and durability.

Pulaski

Some of them have - restaurants that cook "out front" as part of a buffet or similar, commonly use induction cooking surfaces, and have for a number of year IME, though I hadn't recognized what they were until a couple of years ago, when we bought ours.

I also suspect that they might have difficulty in pulling enough electricity (amperage) to run a fair-sized commercial kitchen, whereas gas for a kitchen just requires a big enough pipe.

scrubbedexpat097

And now it is parked in the garage.

I have to say it was weird not leaning going round corners. It is very cool, lots of power but very smooth.

Boomhauer

I don't see any of the big name commerical stove mfgs. (Garland, Vulcan, American Range, Southbend etc.) switching over to induction cooktops. While eateries that already bought gas stoves might not want to spend money on replacing their equipment, new eateries don't have that issue.

If it is made for commercial end users then I assume the Mfgs. would make it durable ??

I suspect this is another case of old school tech like top loading agitator washers & gas ranges being better than newer tech like front loaders & induction ranges