Petrol vs Electric: Mercedes SLS AMG Battle | Top Gear Series 20
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Jeremy drives the Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series and the Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive. The SLS ED is possibly the most brilliantly revolutionary thing that the already-bonkers lot at AMG have ever created: a fully electric AWD supercar. For the full review click www.topgear.com...
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This car hasn't aged at all .. still looks so good looking more than a decade later!!
Fact that this cars only 4 made to customers and cost more than million pounds nowadays... Dang this is only electric cars that never lost his Value
Like it more, than AMG GT
So it has or hasn't aged well?
@@ArnoldsKtm I think it has.
While it isn't exactly perfect for everyday life and usage, it is still another step towards development in electric vehicles which the future now supposedly lies.
It's like evolution in the way we transport ourselves. Man taming horses and using them for transport and trade was revolutionary, as was the invention of the aircraft as a commercial means of transportation.
Nothing will ever beat a Tesla on paper because they lie.
I’m so glad there are “buttons that do things”
thank God
My car also has buttons..
but they don't do a shit!
It happens to me with a truck
It thought there was an insect behind the sterring wheel
But it was in fact some buttons wich do things too
They don't make cars like that anymore
I'm reminded of how Jeremy was once driving some kind of sports(?) car and ended up finding six buttons on the back of the steering wheel that did absolutely nothing
10 seconds of old top gear is more entertaining than a full episode of new top gear
like v8 and electrical engine
Wut
ZoeQuinnIsAMurderer I’m sure he’s referring to top gear USA
It’s awful
Definitely
Watching James May yelling "Clarkson!" once is more entertaining than today's Top Gear
Legend says that this was the only time Jeremy liked an electric car...
Other one was geoff
@@m1co294 and the P1
@@biggusdickus5940 I thought that was technically a hybrid
@@discordpensiveemoji it is
He’s liked a few of the recent ones too despite preferring hybrids
Petrol: "brutal, monstrous, a true sound of power and fear!"
Electric car passes by: "wiiiiiiiiiiioooooooo...."
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I think you mean “ ____________________ “
@@raptormaverick4774 thats most electric cars, this one sounded like a snowflake dropping its frappe latte, foam topped, fucky wucky bullshit coffee...
@@Gisune I'd cry too if I dropped a dessert that costs 9 bucks lol
Ruben A - ok boomer
"How can a glorified torch possibly beat a 6.2 liter v8...."
"ITS NOT A TORCH" XD
It is a rampant rabbit
Its a freaking flashlight
Its my dad
Highlighter
Its a MICROWAVE!
You know what's crazy is this clip is almost a decade old and that car still looks cutting-edge brand new. It looked so good back then and it still looks phenomenal now compared to so many other designs that have not aged well.
I'm German and I respect the Brits, really! They truly have petrol in their veins. They even put used motor oil on their sandwiches. I think it's called MARMITE!
haha nice
I cannot believe Germans can actually make a joke.
+amvj007 I think we can actually be really funny in our own way:D
Deutschland macht mit die besten Autos ;)
we are quite a funny folk but the rest of the world doesn't understand our jokes
"Which is enough to take it from here to the moon"
*Elon Musk wants to know your location*
Jonathan Simmel dude that was classic 🤝👏
Then Elon Musk made a kitchen utensil that looks like a Renault Espace
Speaking of #Tesla, I'd like to know what JC thinks of the #Cybertruck...
@Luka doncic is better than lebron james i dont remember asking
Haha 7 mins and -44% battery on Sport+ hahahhaha Elon, please don't ROFL
3:47 "And it's electric like a food blender" that sums up Jeremy's logic
Except when he punches the accelerator...
E-SLS: *warp drive engaged
And the other mercedes has a V8... like a manly food blender
Why can’t Teslas be food blender
@@jamesdawson3094 They technically made a v8 food blender in Top Gear once, thye put an LS engine to power a blender
@@siren499 teslas are just like driving a remote control car they dont have the feel of driving cars like these
“It is a glorified torch “
Takes off
“ITS NOT A TORCH!!!!!”
Its like a hairdryer which spits 🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see your account in the commebt sectionsm. Like a lot
@@binnysebastian51 lol true
Tito........... zaista
Would explain the Mercedes F1 dominance during the Hybrid Era
And the normal f1
Hybrid race cars are a bit of a misconception when it comes to environmental friendlness, unlike say a Toyota Prius. They do not have much range on the battery. The electric motor comes in with the engine to give more power under acceleration. When the power is off the motor turns into a generator and charges the battery.
Doesn't explain McLaren Mercedes
nuromie uwu mclaren Mercedes dripped Mercedes as there engine provider
@@ismail.mahmood11 Yea I know. Renault and Honda were jokes (though Honda isn't now).
That electric SLS looks like its printed from a 3D printer.
hahahahah
LOL That's true! :D
It is as quiet as a library for church mice
Kshitij Anand maybe it is o_O
shhh... anand u just broke mercedes secret!!!
4:17 “(Watt) in the name ... is (Powering) this thing”
5:56 “which wheel should have (Watt) amount of power?”
Legit.
M8, are you trying to be some bright spark?
Underrated.
ahh i see what you did there
DAMN, JEREMY is good at this JOB
DAMN HI IS !!!!!!
I WANT HIM BACK !!!!
Chill down, he will return in 'The Grand Tour' ;^)
Fedor Amuricano
Was*
Jeremy does this job better than anyone...
...IN THE WORLD.
electric cars are great for the environment , but hell just yesterday a tesla rolled up right beside me while i was cycling i and i didnt even notice it, scared the hell outta me
sometimes too quiet is dangerous
***** That means we should be looking at different ways to produce mass energy. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear... There's plenty of potential for improvement in those resources.
*****
Not to mention that the efficiency of burning even fossil fuels at a power plant to create electricity is waaay higher than of petrol combustion happening locally in your engine. So still, a fraction of the pollution is produced by the electric car, even if its measured at the powerstations chimneys.
Electric cars save gas, that's it. They're not 'better for the environment' at all. The process of fabricating those batteries -- and then disposing of them when they're done in a few years -- is just as damaging to the environment as driving a car, just in a less visible way.
***** We absolutely will have oil for another 200 years. Maybe even more.
Environmentalists have been predicting '10 more years of oil' for the last fifty years, and they're just as wrong now as they've ever been. It's a big planet, and there's plenty of oil out there.
TJP77 Your lies are tedious.
Who else had the SLS Electric Drive in Asphalt 8?
That car is trash lol
I had
Yes
Me
I got it for free way back when they launched the event
when they make nano batteries man... holy shit...
Bloodybarbie graphene...
+Luke Rees he said when not how
Did you mean capacitors? Cause a nano battery is just a small battery
+Zachary Lee
And a capacitor is an electrical component.. Capacitors store charge until the Volt is high enough to pass through the dielectric material and unload the charge to the rest of the circuit. Nothing to do with nano batteries. I'm sure what bloodybarbie meant was batteries with the same charge just smaller in size.
Nobody like this any more. It has 555 likes
top gear editing is on another level. One of the best videos.
Don't understand all the negative comments about this vehicle's range.
The battery technology that was used for this car is several years old, it is not surprising that it runs out so fast. Also, this is a prototype car,not really a production vehicle and is only sold if ordered to build.
In contrast the all electric Tesla Model S can go 200+ miles on a charge of real world driving without breaking a sweat; goes 0-60 in 4.2 seconds and has sitting room for 5 adults.
The SLS electric with it's older battery technology which is less energy dense and heavier, accelerates 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and has less a little over 100 miles of range.
Alas, any vehicle that is driven at 140 mph for 7 minutes and is floored to accelerate 0-60 in 3.7 seconds constantly will run out of juice pretty fast. Be it electric or gasoline
Several dude this car was built before 2004
Several dude this car was built before 2004
Although they do have better acceleration
Mikolaj Lukasik Are u fucking kidding me?! 2004.... thats SLR not SLS
ChadersGaming
Electrics have always better accleration, look at the railways, electrics have always better acceleration than diesels of the same class.
It's because of the limitations of Piston Engines, they only have maximum effectiveness in a very narrow range of rpms, which can be somewhat mitigated by using a gear.
But then a gear box isn't very effective, which was why most locos are today either Diesel-hydraulic* (smaller part) or diesel electric**.
Though both technologies, especially Diesel electric is to heavy for a car....and maybe to dangerous
An electric traction motor has no such effective rpm problems, you want more acceleration, you just add more power, the effectiveness is the same over the whole range of power.
*instead of a gearbox a hydraulic torque converter is used, much lighter than Diesel electric and therefore a loco has a higher power-to-weight ratio.
Problems are it's high maintenance requirements, and the fact that if you want to generate electricy for onboard appliance, you will need to fit a small generator.
Advantages, very light-weight compared to a Diesel electric, no generator needed, no high voltage electrics, therefore safer to use for the common man, and 85-95% efficiency for modern torque converters.
** The diesel electric is use to drive a generator, via a driveshaft.
The generator generates electricity which is then used to drive electric traction motors.
It's an electric loco that carries it's own onboard generator, kinda like if you stuck one of these emergency diesel generators on board a loco and used it to drive the loco.
The problem with that technology is that you need an engine, and a generator, which makes it very heavy.
The advantage is that it's very rugged and even works on minimal maintenance and electric power for onboard appliances is created as a byproduct.
Now if you could make that technology light enough for a car........and then used the generator to produce electricity during braking...
Dunno how far that is included in hybrids, and then there is the fact that there is some serious high voltage and high ampere in Diesel Electric.
Edit: Well, engine breaking could be done very easily, if the have rotary current traction motors, because you can turn them into recuperating brakes, or in other words a generator.
Which would help with the range, especially if you go downhill and have an effective one.
The Taurus recuperating brake has an effectiveness of more than 90%, so 90% of the braking power goes out as juice into the overhead wires and only 10% are heat.
Imagine that for a car.....
I hope Mercedes revisits this soon. I’d love to see how much the technology has advanced.
Driving an electric car would be interesting, but just the thought of flooring on the accelerator and hearing nothing will screw with my mind D:
You can always add a engine sound box. Just think everyday you could get inside of your car and have the sound of a different cars engine.
There would be a lot of screeching.
One solution can be found in some ICE vehicles: a sound tunnel connecting the engine/motor to the cabin.
@@dbclass4075 Damn I posted that 9 years ago. I've driven many EVs since then and contrary to my previous belief, the whole no noise thing doesn't bother me at all
Old top gear videos are addictive
I have never ever watched a topgear episode or an grand tour episode without being entertained. These guys seem to never miss the mark. True entertainment legends.
I hope the studies of graphene batteries are succesful, because if so, you could charge your car in 7 seconds
That´s all good and well and a thing that a lot off other things would benefit from. But why not also study how one can make a car make it´s own electricity? So that: "One day, you´ll buy a car to avoid power bills." -Mathias T.W.P
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen study how one can make a car make it's own electricity? you mean like a range extender? It's been done and it burn fuel, soo.. I'd prefer good batteries.
If you mean making a car that produces it's own own electricity without you putting something in you're basically talking about a perpetuum mobile?
only thing that might work in the future is highly efficient solar cells on the roof that charge your car when you're parking
Matthias Schmitt Yea. But I do beleve that: Air-intake-turbine-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and breaks. Might some time in the future be able to power a car to the extent that you´ll actually be ending up with more. SO. Then, when you come home with power in your extra batteries, you can plug it into the power grid of your house.
You know, we have the problem now-a-days, that power transported in cables across vast distances decay awfully quickly. So the best would be having the thing that is gonna be using that power, to make it itself with turbine-air-intake-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and brakes.
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen There's no possible way for a car to drive and get more eletricity as it goes, as all the laws of physics goes, however ;do you mean ike when you break you get eletricity? but literally i don'tlike the idea of buying a car for eletricity, it doesnt make any sense. just, go for graphene batteries!
NorwegianVikingArt Keep my word in mind. Within 2080 it´ll be possible. Believe what you want. But I believe it´s possible.
2:03 when I first saw this episode, I turned up the volume to almost Max, and was deafened by the silence....
6:28 First time hearing Deadmau5 in something not music related lol. Great choice though
Superliminal baby!!
They know how to use music and especially techno, it goes really well with the tests! It gives some kind of nervousness with it totally matched with the car they're testing 'bet they had good sound engineer back then.
Fits very well really!
Superliminal gang!
Deadmau5 and Top Gear omng!
Fucking love supeliminal was waiting for someone to notice
ah, the good old days
"Welcome, everyone, to the world's first electric supercar". When Clarkson says this, it makes it so interesting and captivating.
"What in the name of god, is powering this thing?"
God i love british accent...
I remember watching this on tv and I thought “wow this lime car is gonna be loud” but then...
It is as quiet as a library for church mice! LMAO!
Lmao*
Me Or You Thanks ;)
+rvmvadati *quiet
+ZeHoSmusician Thanks
+rvmvadati a*
Meanwhile at the Toyota Prius factory...
Watching this in 2019 feels sooo strange 😂
Luca De Righetti this was the first top gear episode I ever watched, so yeah it brings back memories
4:40 this looks so clean and perfect that I thought it was CGI
1:42 "this is the first car ever to come with its own high visibility jacket."
So Mercedes-Benz knows how to prevent it from getting hit by a train?
Can serve as a compensation for being practically soundless.
Never thought Undertale fans were car enthusiasts as well
I like how they don't put a link to buy this car because they know the viewers have no money.
people who buy such cars dont watch youtube video at 3 am. they buy them even before they are well advertised and popular
Am I offeneded?
Yes
Do I agree?
Absolutely.
@@user-ru1eq7tw4y yes because rich people do research before they buy cars
No, they know sane people shouldn't bother
You can't buy this car even if you had the money. What a stupid comment.
its 2019 now and you just need an hour to charge it
My electric car takes a minute to charge, 200 miles cost £5 and the fuel station is open 24/7 365 days a year with no queues no dirt no smells ....
@@teslatrev5764 which car it is?
@@FaisalKhan76 Tesla model 3
@@teslatrev5764 There aren't very many super chargers in England though. Especially in the north so it is still impractical
*an hour
God I miss Jeremy clarkson
me too i miss top gear uk i find it better than top gear usa and even better than the new top gear
Old Top Gear UK > The Grand Tour.
ArdaBlock true
@@rdablock I love both, Old Top Gear has the slight edge though
The old Top Gear had an amazing editing.
Why is the old top gear episode is sooo goood
0:37 one of the best and the most mesmerising scenes in REAL Top Gear I've ever seen
The iPhone of electric cars. You look at it, half of the battery is gone^^
This really is an example of an automotive company pioneering innovation for the industry.
Jeremy is perhaps the best presenter in the world imop..
Steven McMiert im going to have to say Jeremy is better for sure but Chris Carris is a close second, with Matt Farah being a distant third.
They are both the greatest presenters we have and probably will ever have, however, they are very different in character. Jeremy is a comedian and an award winning writer who knows a lot about cars. Chris is an auto journalist who knows a lot about cars and has witty and entertaining way of telling the facts. To put them head-to-head would be unfair as each brings something special to the table. Personally I think Jeremy appeals to a wider demographic of non-pistonheads which means he sells more. On the other hand Chris will keep any pistonhead like myself glued to the telly watching him describe details that we will barely remember or need.
TopGear - lots of laughs & a few facts
Drive/EVO - lots of facts & a few laughs
Motor Trend - a bit of both
Brian Cooley - a class of his own :)
The time when all cars become electric is the time I stop being interested in cars
So nearly a decade later... still think that?
this is definitely one of my top favorite top gear films - it's so serious and shot in a way that evokes a bleak and timeless feeling. great television.
6:51 Deadmau5 - Superliminal
From today onward, I will never accept a drag race challenge from someone who claims he will race me with an electric car.
Noise is ineffeciency, it's an energy loss.
Noise doesn't make the wheels spin (because it's the main purpose of any kind of motor in a car, electric or not).
We like the roar of an engine because since 100 years or so we are used to associate "engine=noise".
But noise is a small part of the inefficiency of a motor, vibrations and heat are much more of a loss.
+pxidr I mean, your last statement is in no way correct tbh, but other than that sure
The more energy an engine produces, the more wastage (noise) occurs.
+teenwilliam1000
Waste through noise, heat and vibrations...
Yeah but the noise of sportvcars is gorg
+pxidr Yes, so motorcycles are very INEFFICIENT, you hypocrite nerd. How dare you look down on petrolheads. You'll never understand their ways. We love it because it tells us the car has SOULL and isnt a mere machine.
In 2014 electric supercars were thought of as mythical. Now we get one every Sunday.
It's not yelllow.. It is GREEN!
Wind Mill its lime green
Green... Lime Green... its somewhere in the green spectrum. But definitely not yellow.
Soham Chak maybe...If you're a bat! :)
Oops.. I just play car games and comment about it's colors. Good reference though.
Neon green?
love the colour for the electric car
Yuup me too
+jonavuka It's okay to have bad taste.
+nilsvids its OK to be insane
+danrg26 You gotta agree it's a bit violent on the eyes. I think it's ok, except the grille.
It’s so weird to imagine that in 2013 the electric SLS was an oddity, the general idea of an electric super car in general felt so foreign and odd. Yet that was basically the writing on the wall.
Now every upcoming super car and car in general seems to be heading towards electrification and it has become the norm rather than the exception. Interesting how quick things change
get ready to drive again petrol engines, because electric cars just go fast but will never bring those goosebumps hearing it roaring at high RPMs
@@raulbila46 as a guy who grew up listening to V12s going full power on a drag strip, and went to bed listening to V8s being worked on. I still have to say I like electric better.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s like old steam engines, there is a character and charm to gas power, but once we crack the power problem, it’s game over gas. And you would have to be mental to want a gas car by then anyway.
Go ahead, charge your electric car off the coal plant down the street. Yeah not joking, with russian oil being cut countries like Germany are opening up coal plants again. By the way, to make hundreds of electric cars it takes 500,000 gallons of water in dry regions that have the lithium and cobalt. Yeah it takes fossil fuels to divert and export water supplies. Lets also not forget the hydrochloric acid and other toxic compounds that are used, and the sheer destruction to the environment from mining down to get the raw materials. There is no free lunch. If you want to save the environment live close to work and use less energy. Any energy consumption hurts the environment and no amount of special interest investments into hiding how the forms we use it in will change that.
I will personally never prefer the feeling of stored power to combustion power for driving either- regardless it annoys me how the media keeps acting like all these more expensive green energy options will save the environment. They wont. Individual decisions will. While we’re on that subject earth had about ten times more carbon in the atmosphere during the Cretaceous and its during this period mammals began to thrive and most of our ancestors began to evolve supposedly. Climate change will happen on its own with or without us through natural processes like procession of the equinox and plate tectonics. Ice is currently building in Antarctica faster than it is being lost in the arctic according to nasa from a 2016 study- due to how the earth is positioned to the sun. The position of the earth to the sun will cause climate change and nothing humans will do will stop it.
@@littleclairesboyfriend8392 amazing, more than 80 percent of what you just said, is wrong. Like wow good on you.
Anyhow I’m fully carbon zero, produce all my own power, have my own water spring and as such an electric car is much better for my needs, I don’t pay for anything but the car itself, and the one time negative emission is just that, one negative. Honestly you morons who act like gas powered cars are going extinct should just shut it, news flash they are not, they will be around for ages.
Now go play with your tinker toys and let those of us who want to stop paying utilities to do as we please
@@josecolon2717 Even still wanting a gas vehicle for fun, it will also be mental to use it as a daily driver when electric is more efficient in that regard.
Casually playing some Deadmau5 at 6:45
Canadican I swear it's not deadmau5😂
ImSeRiX it is, deadmau5 - Superliminal
I was shocked when I first heard it. Never thought I'd hear deadmau5 song in Top Gear
Top Gear has always used trendy songs in their films, they once playes Belly Dancer by Akon in the background while reviewing a Ford Focus
Electric cars are really cool but when I'm driving a car I need to hear the engine sound for example the screaming sound of a Lamborghini V12 or the rumble of a Ford GT V8 or the turbo spool of the Toyota Supra's 2JZ. The sound is something that makes a car fun to drive. But I have to say that this SLS is really freaking impressive.
Agreed. Half of the reason I bought my Mustang was the ungodly sound it produces through the long tube headers and no catalytic converters. Yes, the AMG SLS ED is faster. Yes it's more expensive. But I wouldn't be caught dead in a car that uses the same power source as a dildo. Maybe that's what "ED" stands for...the SLS "Electric Dildo".
Plus, who wants a car that you can't work on? One of those 864 batteries goes out guess what....time to hit the shop and drop a billion dollars. If my alternator goes out, I visit a parts store and fix it for next to nothing. Electric cars are like Segway scooters: they're functional, they fill a purpose but they lack life. Basically, they're cars for people that don't like having to own a car.
Remember...no sound, no soul, no fun.
I couldn't say that any better myself!
@@swagisghey Sadly, the majority who own cars do not want to drive.
7 minutes 44 percent of the battery 😂 oh boy
Just like my old IPhone
For the Porsche Taycan some serious canyon carving eat most of the battery in just over 35 minutes. You still need to leave some range to get to a charger. Ehh i guess that's some progress.
@Marvi Wilson Good Point atleast the Tech is improving. Once 45 Minute Track Session is doable you have a usable track weapon.
Just watching one member of the legendary trio is more exciting than the new entire cast
If battery life in cars is anything like computer memory in computers. In 25 years this will be economical AND lightweight.
+EqualsThreeable
^This
200 mile range EVs in the 30k price range are coming next year. Wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the decade we can get one for 20k and with a 300 mile range.
+EqualsThreeable; but they are not comparable like that. We will see improvement in battery capacity per mass ratio and we will see prices coming down in the coming years, but your comparison is fundamentally flawed. You see inside the computer we move representation of information around, we can scale that representation (signals indicating bits and bytes) down year after year. However with the car we cannot scale down the people driving, year after year they are the same size, sometimes they even put on more weight, so it difficult to make the car take up less space, use less materials and use less energy. Batteries will get better, but much slower than computers did.
+rif42 what about scaling down the size of each battery cell and getting more energy storage and use out of smaller batteries, increased efficiency and holding capacities?
+EqualsThreeable; Yes batteries will get smaller and lighter but at a rate of a few percent per year due to things like more precise manufacturing, material purification, better packing of battery and better electronics for battery-management-system in car. Big change will require a tech break-through like change from Li-ion to Li-air, these exist in the labs but does not last many cycles, practical use maybe in 2025, maybe later. The main change we will see in coming year is that as Li-ion market scale up there will be bigger and more automated factories and that will lead to lower prices. You can compare batteries to solar PV not to computer chips.
rif42 Good to know, can't wait til the future!
The moment he said "the world's first electric super car..." I sfrolled straight to the comments
Vegan vs Non-Vegan
When doing physical exercise, the vegan will run out of energy in 15 minutes.
Henri Zwols Lewis Hamilton is a vegan and i guarantee he has a better physical condition than you.
I know you were joking but still
Henri Zwols lmao dude 😂😂😂
Henri Zwols yeah haha, and the meateater isn’t even able to compete cause he’s too weak
>triggered, malnourished vegans respond
lmao
I would still take the one with the V8.
ChevyBM I would take either and sell them immediately bc i couldnt afford insurance on them
Envay that what I want to said insurance for those car is very expensive
ChevyBM Same.
Eeeeeeehhhhh if your keen on wasting A quarter of your checks on gas
@@lucadreier22 and then like a sensible man, get a omfy s/c/e class that does 50 + mpg and an old bmw modified for the track XD
Time flies so fast...
3:53 The answer you're looking for is instant torque
Drag racing an electric car with a gas car is so pointless. Good entertainment for non car people though.
4:14 when the future hit you hard
It's really cool to see that Mercedes was thinking this far ahead about electric performance masheens back then and now to see what Ford is doing with it now with the electric Cobra Jet today. That will always be the fascinating thing about cars, everyone has a different idea of "what's best" and how they implement it for the end consumer to experience.
why cant they make 2 batteries one in the car and every time you get to eg. somewhere halfway change batteries and go on leaving the old one charging. and make all batteries thesame so that toyota can use mercedes batteries. and add some v8 mp3s in the radio :D
"add some v8 mp3s in the radio" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA. Also, the batteries weigh alot, they're 864 of them, half a ton heavier
yea 864 batts in one box that you can exchange :D
YAMAHA FACTORY Yeah like r/c cars..
Companies wouldn't profit if they were to do that. The world is run by money.
true
Its depressing to think that all cars will be electric someday
For real boring to drive those
@@Norcal1990
You have probably never driven a Tesla before
@@Fastwalker27 still won't changed my mind. They're still quick but boring. The only fun electric car i've ever driven is a Honda E. It's basically everything you have in the old classic Mini, except electric.
@@nobedz6688 yeah but like 99% of evs are suvs
there have passed 7 years my friend and it didn't happen and will never happen, energetical world is not ready for that consumption of electricity by the whole EV
I literally turned up the volume and thought my speakers were fried🤣
"And many buttons that do things" i love Jeremy's comprehensive reviews 😂
Clarkson is king in doing reviews! this one I enjoyed so much!
Too bad they pissed off Tesla and the Stig won't be running a Model S around their track.
:o how?
Purposely ran a Roadster dry to prove it didn't have enough range to be worthwhile. Tesla made a big stink about it and I doubt any future model will end up with them.
bad move topgear :/, i do want a 1 vs 1 mercedes vs tesla :o
I would never consider anything over $80000 if it hasnt been on top gear or a muscle car.
hempev The battery never went dry. It never even got below around 20%. They just made it up. That's why Telsa sued them. Then Top Gear said they didn't do anything wrong because it's an entertainment program, not a factual review show.
Clarkson: Well, turn up the volume on your TV and listen to this
The sound of the car: .......😂
😁😁😁😁😁😁 I just waited
I'm late for work watching this
Look at how the battery technologies have advanced in the past 5 years. Wait another 10 years and we should be astonished.
Danny Nijenhuis I want someone to replace the batteries of this thing in 10 years to make this a vehicle which can go for more than 15 minutes.
"You'd have to be soft in the head" my favourite expression of all time from now on
It's a very old and very common British saying.
@@54356776 yeah i've never heard it before
one of my absolute favorite episodes ever, jeremys commentary is second to none. an absolute blast listening to him
You guys know that we are going to need a 5.1 surround sound for the 'new' sports races right, I mean what's a race without the amazing engine sounds?!
It might be replaced with electric whine instead.
1:00 xD had to laugh hard at this , im german
Tara Lovestrong: Thankfully the silver one isn’t decepticon Soundwave otherwise top gear would be in danger
7:17 I seriously thought they were toy cars.
This is the frickin future ! 😂
+Gregori Quirós Valadez Unfortunately, yes.. :-(
+Chinga Changa Don't see how unfortunate it is tho.
Dont Be A Salad Or a potato I don't mind at all, because they can save petrol that I can put into a 911 GT3, and they are quiet so I can enjoy the noise better, win-win. And given EVs are very efficient, I don't mind driving one myself, as long as the they solve the range issue. Hybrids aren't bad, haters are.
Dont Be A Salad Or a potato "People", as in "a tiny fraction of the entire global population". Truth is, the majority of the global population aren't into cars, they see driving as a necessary evil and just want to move from A to B as cheap and comfortable as possible. You should also know that people who aren't into cars will not buy noisy cars for themselves in the first place (let alone for other people), and they don't care whether car lovers are happy or not. Hybrid/EV are for those people, to make them happy. In fact the more people drive hybrid/EV, and the more efficient hybrid/EV gets, the more petrol there will be for gas guzzlers, thus allowing you to enjoy them more before petrol really runs out. You really should thank those hybrid/EV for not fighting for fuel with you.
If you don't like quiet cars, buy a hell cat, that's your choice.
Dont Be A Salad Or a potato EVs can do this even today, Tesla cars for instance have amazing acceleration, matching 911s in some cases, but the limiting factor is the batteries, it just can't store enough juice to go a long way and takes forever to charge through standard plugs. I praise Prius and its Toyota/Lexus siblings because it gets the best of both worlds, the shove of EV (should the manufacturer wants so) and the range of internal combustion. I tested the new Lexus NX300h, it is essentially a Prius with more of everything. It's hybrid system is clever and efficient, I actually had great fun poking it around the corners and accelerate hard, thanks to the electric power. Under the same principle there is 918 and P1, I don't think the future is so grim after all. There will always be things for enthusiasts, I'm not worried about that at all.
I'm so happy to see technology has come to the degree that battery life has become the only factor that prevents electric car from fully market-capable.
And charging infrastructure.
“As a result, you’d have to be soft in the head to buy the yellow car” sent me😂😂😂
1:56
I remember that joke, nostalgia
One impressive car.
I am sooo in love with the Electric drive's colour!!!!! xD
for some people they need to hear sound to be entertained but I find that noise annoying from time to time. Having a electric car would be awesome once battery technology finds a way to recharge quickly and last longer.
probably with a new molecular design with elements like carbon and such.
TheFi0r3 I'm seriously looking forward to a dead silent and not polluting cars. I'm not an environmentalist but that's prob the main reason you buy a electric car.
AlexRmF not quite, in fact, over 50% of the entire earth's electric input comes from fossil fuels.
TheFi0r3 But im onöy using the 50% with not use fossil fuels ;D(sacasm)
TheFi0r3 He said electricity CAN come from renewables, not it DOES. That's the key figure.
7:32 Imagine being called soft in the head for buying the electric car that is now worth more than a million dollars 🤣🤣🤣
Petrol engine... why would I choose a car that doesn't roar like a monster?
My favorite thing about the old TopGear is when Jeremy gets all Shakespearean whenever he's excited about a car.
This will never get old 💯
Literally 🤣 I just find myself here at times
Literally!!!🤣🤣
SLS Petrol:Super Car
SLS Electric:Super Car *e*
Amg gtr:I am really fast Amg sls electric:let's race brother
So quality video thank you @topgear I Be Love to SLS 😍
7:39 - one of my favourite Geramy Clarkson quotes!
Yes!
when he told to turn up the volume I literally did it, hoping to here some noise.
lol
What's mindboggling for me is Jeremy memorizing all the conversions from kmh to mph. I only know 60mph is 100kmh
They read a script 😂😂
Frequently visiting mainland Europe might contribute to that.
What is that ambient song near the 6:40 part of the video? :)
***** no, it isnt. its a ween song
Isaiah Heath Actually... It's Darude-Sandstorm
MKV1996 damn... beat me to it!
+Iggy Tubmen It is Superliminal. That ambient part is also part of the song.
The song is by deadmau5 and its called superminimal
solution ------> supercapacitors, can hold a HUGE amount of power and they dont fade like conventional batteries
Clevver and the price skyrockets
rimac concept one can go huge distances but it costs almoast 1 million USD.
AlexR
They (Arabs) already do - they build things now....artificial islands and such for the time when petrol won't matter anymore....