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When Consumer Reports bought a Tesla Model S for road testing this spring, its $127,820 sedan got off to an inauspicious start. After 27 days and 2,300 miles, an electric door handle failed, locking the driver’s door shut.

It got fixed. And as testing moved forward, it became clear that it was Consumer Reports’ rating scale that was broken. The Model S P85D scored a 103 on a scale meant to stop at 100, forcing the magazine to recalibrate its ratings.

“It blew away everything else we’ve ever tested,” Jake Fisher, the automotive testing director at Consumer Reports, said in an interview. Not only was it the quickest car tested in the magazine’s history, dashing from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, it delivered the equivalent of 87 mpg from its electric powertrain.




Tesla's Model S P85D Forces Consumer Reports To Reamp Ratings Scale

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