Tesla Model S floats well enough to act as a boat, according to Elon Musk

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28 points·grahamel··8 comments

Related VW Beetle floating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU

People are always trying to pick apart things that a wrong with Tesla's. Like the fact a tesla crashing makes the news. It's just a car, like all the others, but a bit more advanced.

"Most internal combustion engine cars are sunk in water when the exhaust becomes flooded, which is why serious off-roaders have big exhaust scoops leading to the roof."

I don't even....

You don't even what?

From Reddit:

"Internal Combustion cars don't stall because their exhaust floods. They stall because they suck up water into their intake. There is no such thing as an "exhaust scoop""

4v4's that do serious water duty have exhaust snorkels also e.g. http://imgur.com/SWSbe28

The air intake snorkel on many 4v4's a lot of time is really there just for cosmetics (as the air intake system is fairly capable on it's own) or often has a compressor in it to cool the intake air to allow the engine to work in more extreme thermal conditions.

Yeah, that's poor writing- if you just swap exhaust for intake though, it becomes accurate.

It's the air intake, rather than the exhaust, that suffers underwater. The scoops you seen on proper off-road cars are actually for the air intake, hence them being called 'snorkels'.

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