Quote Originally Posted by Jer View Post
125mph sustained? No problem but.... why?

That's another advantage to these Teslas because you can hammer on them all day every day and they just keep going. It's just an giant electric motor after all. No transmission or the absurd amount of moving/spinning parts that can grenade at any moment like on an ICE vehicle.

I can't tell you how many parts and cars I broke at speeds much less than 25mph and with much less abuse. These things are engineered to take the abuse more so than any other vehicle I've ever owned. The simplistic nature of it's parts list (or nearly complete lack thereof) helps with this as well. A fraction of the parts and nearly zero moving parts increases reliability.
Just curious how long it would do it. It's going to see a heat issue running that hard, just was wondering how long it would take before that heat presents itself. I'm not talking about absolutely grenading, as I'm sure Elon has something to shut it down before it kills itself.