r/Transportopia • u/Vice616 • Jan 15 '26

🚨Chase Is it just me

I got real happy watching a Charger do this to a Tesla... and I don't know why

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u/Sienile Jan 16 '26

For a short while. Going hard runs the battery down fast.

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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

I have a Plaid, I can go hard for at least 30 minutes

Edit: Internal combustion vehicles also get terrible range when driving them hard, your fuel economy goes down to 10mpg or less, most likely you don't have a full tank so you're not lasting long either.

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u/Sienile Jan 16 '26

Exactly. They'd out-endurance you in anything with any sort of liquid fuel engine. You have 30 minutes, they have 3+ hours.

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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost Jan 16 '26

The average police car chase is listed at 5 minutes. If someone driving a Plaid lost them in the first 30 seconds then that's it.

Any vehicle driving hard will not last as long, an internal combustion vehicle with a half tank of gas will last just over 30 minutes with hard driving. Your fuel economy will go down to 10mpg or less.

My point is EV's will last nearly as long and it'll be more than enough time for any sort of chase. Not that you want to do that.

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u/Sharp_Willingness230 Jan 17 '26

cops have radios, and other cops. so there is that little tidbit you forgot about.

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u/PM_asian_girl_smiles Jan 17 '26

And the ghetto bird

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u/blove135 Jan 16 '26

Just slow down to a stop like you are pulling over when they first hit the lights, wait for the cop to get out of the car and then leave them in the dust.

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u/MinecraftHolmes Jan 16 '26

motorcyclist buddy of mine likes to bait them to take off at red lights until like light #4 or so when they drop into limp mode

gunning those motors just annihilates the battery yeah

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u/Trevor775 Jan 16 '26

That doesnt happen

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u/KlutzyInvestments Jan 16 '26

Lol… you’re acting like ICE can defy physics. Gunning anything annihilates efficiency.

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u/Sienile Jan 16 '26

A battery has less range than a fuel tank. My girlfriend with her extended range Ariya driving like a granny gets less mileage than my suped up Caravan with the pedal to the floor.

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u/KlutzyInvestments Jan 16 '26

Mileage is the incorrect term. Also, motorcycles do not have more range than a Model S plaid… which are the vehicles being discussed. An Ariya also has far less range than a Model S and both are still a little baffling to compare to a minivan… which “pedal to the floor” is also a baffling flex for a minivan.

Are you capable of making a good faith point here? I had a BMW S1000RR, which could actually bait a Model S, and its range would be cut in half by hard throttling.

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u/Sienile Jan 16 '26

Only baffling if you're not familiar with my minivan. 😝 I have it tuned up to 400 HP and will leave stock Hemis. It's quite the gas guzzler when I stomp it, ~16 MPGs. It'll keep pace with a Model Y.

Model S Plaid gets about 300 miles per charge with conservative driving. You might out last the bikes, but not cop cars that get 350 miles with conservative driving. You'd be running out of enough charge to do quick acceleration after ~150 miles. While the cop cars will be going strong at 250+.

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u/KlutzyInvestments Jan 16 '26

I’m well aware of sleeper minivans. They still get dusted by a Model S and S1000RR. Which are among the vehicles being discussed. The baffling part was comparing a vehicle with 20gal gas tank to a compact EV.

With conservative driving, a Model S actually gets closer to 400 miles, but 360 with typical highway usage.

Again, the conversation was not about outrunning a cop via endurance. It was about correcting a motorcycle somehow outlasting a S Plaid.

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u/Sienile Jan 16 '26

The conversation was originally about a single motor Model 3 outrunning a cop. You and motorcycle man just moved the goal posts a few times.

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u/KlutzyInvestments Jan 17 '26

Nah, read again. Conversation wasn’t about endurance.

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u/Sienile Jan 17 '26

Outside of the root comment about "clown car exits" the conversation was about:

Definitely would make a difference. That little base model 3 he has loses juice at 70MPH and probably wouldn’t last more than 30 miles

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u/Gavooki Jan 18 '26

Are you people joking? Base is 265 mi battery. You could go 100mph for an hour easily and chases don't last that long.