The Other Dan
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Yep, I know how it works, but it sill allows you to adjust some of the negative handling traits during the winter like always -on regen brakes. Letting off the accellerator and essentially only having brakes on the rear is a recipe for disaster. If they at least gave us back the different regen settings, that would help.You can't adjust the power split in a straight line. The split only occurs when you turn the wheel.
Try it sometime, even in the dry. Make the car full FWD. Mash the throttle. Car still does 0-60 in about 3 seconds, which is not possible for FWD.
Now, drive it that way but feed in some steering angle and it will overwhelm the front tires.
This is why they call it "handling balance" not "power split".
The tesla isn't my snow car, I've got my jeep diesel for that. But I still miss my '05 STi or '99 RSTi for the snow. (Among other times) RWD bias for the fun and fully locked center diff when it's not so fun. On a set of Blizzaks, the thing was a tank.
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