- Okay, so this is where I'm gonna start getting angry.
Because I don't think that we need to go this fast,
and I don't think we should pay a million dollars to do it.
Let's get crazy!
Newsflash, hot shot.
Electric cars are pretty fast.
I don't know if you've heard.
Today, we're gonna take a look at
how insanely stupidly fast they've become
in the past few years because they weren't always like this.
I'm James, he's the Monolist.
And this is the D-d-d-d-list.
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- We've got a lot of cars on this list,
but we're not talking about every electric car ever.
In fact,
electric cars have actually been around since the 1800s,
but most of these old timey cars couldn't even get the 60
miles per hour ever.
Our list actually begins in the 1960s when Chevy was
experimenting with electrification, just like knowing.
GM took the rear engine Corvair and
dropped in a 115 horsepower AC motor,
and about 1000 pounds of silver oxide batteries.
And they called it the Electrovair and it jolted from
zero to 60 miles per hour, in an astonishing 16 seconds.
Not only was it slow,
but the silver oxide batteries were expensive and had to be
thrown into the ocean after only 100 recharge cycles.
The technology just wasn't there yet.
So Chevy killed it and sent it to hell.
Where all cars go when they die.
There were some other Eby attempts in the 70's,
but nothing fast enough for the good old monolist.
I asked the monolist if we could include the Chevy electric
vet and he shocked me.
(evil laughter)
- So we're going to skip the 70's.
And we are going to skip the 80's, and are going to jump
right into the 90's where Chrysler debuted the TE van,
which I assume is actually pronounced "Tevan."
This is a town and country minivan, fun,
with a 65 horsepower DC motor from the factory. You know,
at the time a few car companies were offering electric
versions of their normal cars.
There was an electric Rav 4 a Geo Prism and even a Ford
Ranger,
but the monolist insisted that I only include the
Tevan and please don't shock me again.
I'm a prisoner.
They won't let me leave.
What's even better,
is the Tevan was a bargain.
And only $120,000 in 1993 money.
For a freaking 65 horsepower minivan.
That's a lot of money. It must've been pretty fast, huh?
Yeah. This sucker ripped the 60 in a whopping 17 seconds.
They keep saying, they're going to get me stronger magnets.
That is slower than the Electrovair,
which was made in the 60's. What are we doing?
Again, the technology just wasn't quite ready,
but that would change almost immediately because just a few
years later,
another car debuted that would revolutionize EVC.
1997, General Motors EV1. This bad boy was a game changer,
just like 50 cent changed The Game's life.
It was the first mass produced modern electric car, had a
range of 300 miles,
which is pretty good even by today's standards.
And the people who leased these loved them, until general
motors took most of them away and crushed them for some
reason. But when they weren't being crushed,
they got to 60 miles per hour in a relatively, for the time
blistering 10 seconds.
But the era of double digit 0 to 60 times was about to end.
Let me introduce you to a company called AC Propulsion.
They shocked the world when they dropped this.
The T zero.
The T zero was based on a kit car called the
Piontek Sportech.
It's a little redundant name,
which normally came with a Suzuki engine, yank that sucker
out, dropped in 28 Optima led acid car batteries and an
electric motor.
It made 200 electric horsepower and was able to go to 60 in
4.07 seconds.
We just jumped from 10 seconds to four seconds.
And for reference a supercharged Mercedes E 55 AMG from that
year did 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds.
And after AC propulsion switched to the more efficient
lithium ion batteries in 2003, it cut the zero to 60 time.
The 3.6 seconds that's as fast as a Carrera GT.
Which last time I checked is a pork chop,
which Jay Leno says is the scariest time he's ever been in a
car. He told me that when we were in a car together,
by the way,
lithium ion batteries have a higher energy density that lets
you crank more juice out of them. It's called science.
They also have a longer life cycle than the week ass caveman
batteries that used to be used in electric cars.
So you could say they changed the game,
just like 50 cent changed The Game's life.
You could also say the T zero changed the game because it
laid the groundwork for a car that he might've heard enter
Grimes' baby daddy and the Tesla Roadster.
You see the dudes who founded Tesla,
took a spin in the T zero and decided that they wanted to
make their own fast electric Roadster.
So they did the Tesla Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise
chassis and was the first highway legal car to run on those
fancy lithium ion batteries I mentioned four seconds ago.
And it's the first road legal car to be launched into space.
Check out this super old donut video where we launched a toy
Tesla into space. According to Tesla,
the Roadster went 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds.
It's not bad, but spoiler. This aint
the last Tesla you're going to see on this list.
So we've already broken into the three second zone and we're
only four minutes into this video.
It's pretty safe to say the things you're going to get a
little bit bonkers, but remember,
we're still all the way back in 2008.
And it's going to take a few years for other car companies
to get anywhere close to these insane times.
You don't believe me.
The 2010 Nissan Leaf only went 0 to 60 and 7.5 seconds.
Everybody always says to me, James,
the 2010 Nissan Leaf is one of my favorite sports cars.
Why don't you do an up to speed on it?
And I always respond because it only went 0 to 60 in 7.5
seconds. Things were about to start heating up in the 2010s.
Most of the electric cars during this time period,
weren't really marketed as performance cars and the
monolist threatened to zap me if I mentioned them.
One thing I am allowed to mention is the Mercedes SLS AMG
electric drive.
Mercedes. Yeah, those guys.
Crammed four electric motors into their Goldwing
super car. That's one motor for each wheel.
If you're keeping score at home,
it's also one motor for each of Nolan's toes.
The guy's climbed Everest,
and he came back with a few less foot fingers.
Made about 750 horsepower, a full hundred horses,
more than the V8 powered SLS.
And it only costs half a million dollars.
I'll go buy four of them.
And it did 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds.
And when Audi saw the SLS electric drive,
they decided that they wanted to do one too.
So they made the R8 E-Tron.
It also hit zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds.
The R8 and the AMG were quick.
They were huge sales failures, around this point in time,
electric cars were either fast and impractical or slow and
impractical,
but that changed with a little man named Elon Musk and a
little car called the Tesla Model S.
When the model S came out in 2012,
it had zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds.
But just between you and me,
it's not the last Tesla you're gonna see on this list.
The next Tesla you're going to see on this list is right now
Model S P85D, did you ever see that movie crank to high
voltage where Jason Statham has to lick a car battery and
get really amped and starts running extremely fast?
That's exactly what the P85D is exactly.
It goes 0 to 60 in a completely normal and not at all
unnecessary or annoying 3.1 seconds,
even more normal and not unnecessary is the Model X P90D,
which hits 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds. Why?
I don't know very many other cars from the 2010s that can
match that thought about mentioning the Jaguar I Pace.
But again, I was threatened by the monolist.
The only car from that decade that really holds a flame to
the Model S is a Croatian hyper car called the Rimac Concept
One.
Nolan has a video about this company coming out soon.
There are one of my favorite car companies right now.
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It costs over a million bucks and it managed to do 0 to
60 in 2.5 seconds.
Okay. So this is where I'm going to start getting angry.
All right,
because I don't think that we need to go this fast.
I don't think we should pay a million dollars to do it.
I mean, at this point, just buy a fricking airplane.
No, this one's going to be hard to top, right?
Well, I got a bunch more magnets over here.
Let's get, let's get crazy. So my favorite decade,
the 2020s has to offer, the best two years in history.
So much fun. We're having a great time.
Audi RS E-Tron GT QUATTRO costs $140,000 and just took first
place for the longest name on this list.
This word salad goes 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds.
Ah.
Mustang Mach-E GT.
Is it a real Mustang? I don't care.
Do you? Let me know in the comments. 0 to 60 in 3.6 seconds.
Oh, hi, T zero.
My name is Mustang Mach-E, I'm an SUV.
Speaking of Ford's, 2022 Ford lightning, lightning,
lightning!
You watched our video about fast trucks.
You already know how ridiculously fast that these things are
going to be.
And I say gonna be because they're not actually available
to buy yet.
There was also a few other vehicles coming up on this list,
that claim to do some pretty insane 0 to 60 times,
but we're going to put an asterisk next to them since they
haven't been proven yet. Anyway,
the lightning's highest trim boasts 563 horsepower and
775 pound feet of torque. It also has a 300 mile range.
Goes 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds.
2024 Hummer EV GM claims it can do 0 to 60 in
3.0 seconds, in a Hummer.
Have you ever seen a Hummer? I haven't,
but I heard they're really big and definitely not very fast
looking. But then Tesla was like, you know what?
F*** it. Let's make a truck that goes even faster.
The Cybertruck, which again,
I would like to reiterate is not a tangible truck that you
can buy it at this point in time.
It has not officially been tested,
but it will allegedly rock to 60 miles per hour in 2.9
seconds.
But that's nothing compared to the Rivian R1T
The company says it will somehow do 0 to 60 in 3
seconds flat.
That's as fast as the 2021 Lotus Evija would.
The first Lotus on this list.
If you don't count the Tesla Roadster.
The Evija would, is a very expensive aerodynamic super car.
The Cybertruck is a monolist on wheels.
What I'm saying is, this is apparently just as fast as that,
but if you asked me this list,
doesn't have enough P on it. That's right.
It's time to mention the P car, Taycan Turbo S.
The Tesla killer from dude skirt. They name the car turbo.
If they're 2013 animated feature film about the smallest,
fastest snail in the world.
How fast can this P car blast, try 2.6 seconds.
But this car named after the bird from the cereal,
isn't the only luxury sedan giving Tesla a run for its
money.
Lucid is an EV company that makes insanely fast.
Cool cars right here in LA.
And Jeremiah got to hang out with the founder.
The Lucid Air Dream Edition, is $169,000 sedan that can
hit zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds according to them.
But before we get into the one's,
the next number I'm going to say might be the most
impressive one on this list.
The 2022 Tesla Semi will allegedly hit 60 miles per hour
with a full payload. We're talking 21 tons in 20 seconds.
All right,
a fully loaded diesel truck right now takes five minutes to
do that without the 21 tons of logs, 21 tons of logs,
it'll hit 0 to 60 in 5.0 seconds. It's a semi-truck.
Speaking of, how about the 2022 Tesla Model S Plaid.
You know, from Spaceballs because Elon Musk is
so f***** funny.
From Spaceball, oh he's named after Spaceballs.
He's a cool billionaire. Tony Stark's new car,
hits 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds, baby.
We are officially in the ones.
You remember the Rimack that's been on the top of the list
since 2013 while they made another car.
And it's a little faster.
I'm talking about the 2021 Nevera as in your Nevera gonna
own one.
First of all, I just want to say that this is a hyper car.
It costs over $2 million.
They say it'll have a 340 mile range and something called an
AI driving coach.
I talked to the guys at Rimack when I went to Geneva a
couple of years ago. Yup, I wore a turtleneck.
And they actually have like active torque vectoring.
So if you're in a situation where it would help turn the
car,
one or more of the wheels will actually go backwards for a
fraction of a second.
But none of that matters. In fact,
nothing in this world matters anymore because apparently it
goes 0 to 60 in 1.85 seconds.
What? Pininfarina Battista.
We covered this car in that same trip to Geneva a couple of
years ago on the old bumper to bumper and my feeble human
body has been graced by this divine 1900 horsepower
electric hyper car. How fast do they say it'll hit 60?
I don't know, 1.8 flat. Aspark Owl.
This Japanese super car company claims that their car goes
0 to 60 in 1.7 seconds.
But you know what, I've been thinking.
And that's a little too slow.
Every single car on this list is a little too slow.
You want to know why?
Because Tesla motors says they've got a car that's even
faster and not just a little bit faster either.
They say their new car is more than half a second,
faster than the 2000 horsepower opinion.
2022 Tesla Roadster.
The next gen Roadster has a claimed 0 to 60 time.
I'm not making this up.
That's what their website actually says of 1.1 seconds.
Think about that.
That's this long. One, one thousand. Is anything real?
The only thing stopping us from instantaneous acceleration
is traction.
So unless tire companies can step up their game.
I can't possibly imagine cutting this time down any further.
They're talking about putting rockets on the thing to glue
it to the ground.
I've come to the conclusion that electric cars need to chill
out.
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