{"id":29492,"date":"2016-08-29T07:49:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/teslas-model-s-now-drives-like-a-ferrari-thanks-to-bigger-battery"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:19:44","slug":"teslas-model-s-now-drives-like-a-ferrari-thanks-to-bigger-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/teslas-model-s-now-drives-like-a-ferrari-thanks-to-bigger-battery","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Model S Now Drives Like A Ferrari, Thanks To Bigger Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teslas-model-s-now-drives-like-a-ferrari-thanks-to-bigger-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla took Ludicrous Mode to new heights today. Some subtle wiring changes and a major battery upgrade improved mileage and gave the Model S enough oomph to go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds\u2014within fractions of seconds of Ferrari and Porsche models.<\/p>\n<p>The extra performance is largely attributed to a larger battery. Its 100kWh is a 10 percent increase from the previous largest option, and increases total distance for some models by up to seven percent.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it comes at a price. The Model S now costs as much as $134,000\u2014and as always you need to be able to charge it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tesla-announces-bigger-battery-faster-cars?src=SOC&dom=fb\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tesla-announces-bigger-battery-faster-cars?src=SOC&dom=fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla took Ludicrous Mode to new heights today. Some subtle wiring changes and a major battery upgrade improved mileage and gave the Model S enough oomph to go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds\u2014within fractions of seconds of Ferrari and Porsche models. The extra performance is largely attributed to a larger battery. Its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66396,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions\/66396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}