During this weekend Saturday Night Live had a skit of the world’s most outrageous luxurious electric vehicle powered by thousands of AA batteries, the kind you likely utilizing in numerous a low end device around your residence.
A clear satire of Tesla TSLA -2.25 % and its Model S sedan, “Mercedes AA Class” utilizes 9,648 AA batteries that wrap around the entire body of the car. Batteries can be changed on a specific basis, or at one time with a pull tab, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as she pulls a tab and batteries awkwardly spill out and pile up on both the sides of the automobile.
Unlike Tesla’s cars that highlight high performance, quick velocity, and scorching quick speeds, the Mercedes AA Class only has a top speed of 52 miles per hour, jokes the phony commercial. Tesla would never choose that.
When specific batteries require to be changed, the Mercedes AA Class also has sweeping high-end dashboard screen that will signal drivers. The firm programs a screen that continuously and aggravatingly signals the driver of AA batteries that need to be replaced every couple of minutes.
Years ago Tesla utilized to in fact build technology for Mercedes’ B-Class electrical car. Mercedes now prepares to bring its battery and powertrain technology in home for the next-generation of the B-Class. Mercedes has actually invested over $550 million in its own powertrain and battery technology for its electrical vehicles.
