HQ Tour and Roadster test drive article

[TEG]

My Dream Date With A $109,000 Electric Car, The Tesla Roadster

 

[JRod0802]

It accelerates very smoothly -- there are four gears, but no speeds, and you don't really feel the transitions. The tachometer does jump high when you rev it, though, so it's definitely shifting..

Huh? Never heard that one before.

 

[AnOutsider]

It accelerates very smoothly -- there are four gears, but no speeds, and you don't really feel the transitions. The tachometer does jump high when you rev it, though, so it's definitely shifting..

That true?

 

[rabar10]

That would be the ammeter that jumps high when you "rev" it, heh...

 

[Doug_G]

That true?

He's very confused, mixing up "gears" with "shifting". He probably heard someone say that there are four gears in the gearbox, and somehow equated that to shifting gears, even though there's no shifting gears. Like I said, he's totally confused.