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04-03-2016, 01:15 PM
That time Qantas raced a Boeing aircraft against a Tesla Model S
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Ok, so it's a promotional video, but this race is still a chance to see two truly impressive pieces of tech**logy duke it out.
To celebrate a new collaboration between Qantas and Tesla Motors, a Qantas Boeing 737-800 took on a Tesla Model S P90D on a 3 kilometre (1.9 miles) runway in Melbourne, Australia. While the electric car, which in Ludicrous mode (http://mashable.com/2015/10/05/2016-tesla-model-s-p90d-review/) can climb from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in 3 seconds (0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds), seemed to have the early speed advantage, you could say the aircraft won. After all, it actually left the ground.*
That's something a Tesla can**t do. For **w. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/qantas-versus-tesla/)
More about Tesla Model S (http://mashable.com/category/tesla-model-s/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Boeing (http://mashable.com/category/boeing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Qantas (http://mashable.com/category/qantas/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tesla Motors (http://mashable.com/category/tesla-motors/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9fy0J7NKdBI
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Ok, so it's a promotional video, but this race is still a chance to see two truly impressive pieces of tech**logy duke it out.
To celebrate a new collaboration between Qantas and Tesla Motors, a Qantas Boeing 737-800 took on a Tesla Model S P90D on a 3 kilometre (1.9 miles) runway in Melbourne, Australia. While the electric car, which in Ludicrous mode (http://mashable.com/2015/10/05/2016-tesla-model-s-p90d-review/) can climb from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in 3 seconds (0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds), seemed to have the early speed advantage, you could say the aircraft won. After all, it actually left the ground.*
That's something a Tesla can**t do. For **w. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/qantas-versus-tesla/)
More about Tesla Model S (http://mashable.com/category/tesla-model-s/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Boeing (http://mashable.com/category/boeing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Qantas (http://mashable.com/category/qantas/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tesla Motors (http://mashable.com/category/tesla-motors/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9fy0J7NKdBI