@@ArnoldsKtm I think it has. While it isn't exactly perfect for everyday life and usage, it is still another step towards development in electric vehicles which the future now supposedly lies. It's like evolution in the way we transport ourselves. Man taming horses and using them for transport and trade was revolutionary, as was the invention of the aircraft as a commercial means of transportation.
I'm reminded of how Jeremy was once driving some kind of sports(?) car and ended up finding six buttons on the back of the steering wheel that did absolutely nothing
@@raptormaverick4774 thats most electric cars, this one sounded like a snowflake dropping its frappe latte, foam topped, fucky wucky bullshit coffee...
You know what's crazy is this clip is almost a decade old and that car still looks cutting-edge brand new. It looked so good back then and it still looks phenomenal now compared to so many other designs that have not aged well.
Hybrid race cars are a bit of a misconception when it comes to environmental friendlness, unlike say a Toyota Prius. They do not have much range on the battery. The electric motor comes in with the engine to give more power under acceleration. When the power is off the motor turns into a generator and charges the battery.
I'm German and I respect the Brits, really! They truly have petrol in their veins. They even put used motor oil on their sandwiches. I think it's called MARMITE!
It's amazing how far we've come in the past six years. Back in 2014 most electric vehicles were basically small batch novelties with high price tags created as publicity stunts, and now we've got tonnes of small, affordable(ish) vehicles from dozens of car companies that are rolling off the line all the time. And they don't need 20 hour charge times anymore either, which is nice.
They're still garbage. We haven't come anywhere. They will always be limited in range and charging speed. They are NOT the future. Electric is the oldest car technology and it failed miserably then, and will continue to fail miserably to achieve anything
@@raulbila46 True, but it's fairly rare that someone needs to travel the full range of an electric car's battery before being able to stop and recharge. Most BEVs you can buy now have ranges well in excess of 300 miles. That range is enough to cover nearly all everyday applications, particularly in urban areas with plenty of charging ports.
You can hear the whine of the motors in the vid when he accelerates at 6:02. Btw it's not sound isolators, it's sound deadening. And yes it's slightly pointless in an electric car. It adds more weight to the car....
@@aaryeshg.6526 You'd be surprised about how many noises a car makes when it's not isolated. If you heard the sounds from the brakes, the shock absorbers and the chassis bending while driving, you'd think it's going to fall apart. Ah, and don't forget about tyre noise.
JC: "What unbelievable thing is powering this thing" : i can answer that, batteries incoming r/woosh but no, "in the name of God", "the hell" & "unbelievable thing" are interchangeable
I have never ever watched a topgear episode or an grand tour episode without being entertained. These guys seem to never miss the mark. True entertainment legends.
+Zachary Lee And a capacitor is an electrical component.. Capacitors store charge until the Volt is high enough to pass through the dielectric material and unload the charge to the rest of the circuit. Nothing to do with nano batteries. I'm sure what bloodybarbie meant was batteries with the same charge just smaller in size.
The SLS AMG-E is just an engineering exercise, not a car for series production. Only a handful of them exist and kiddies here wonder why it costs a fortune.
They know how to use music and especially techno, it goes really well with the tests! It gives some kind of nervousness with it totally matched with the car they're testing 'bet they had good sound engineer back then.
Don't understand all the negative comments about this vehicle's range. The battery technology that was used for this car is several years old, it is not surprising that it runs out so fast. Also, this is a prototype car,not really a production vehicle and is only sold if ordered to build. In contrast the all electric Tesla Model S can go 200+ miles on a charge of real world driving without breaking a sweat; goes 0-60 in 4.2 seconds and has sitting room for 5 adults. The SLS electric with it's older battery technology which is less energy dense and heavier, accelerates 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and has less a little over 100 miles of range. Alas, any vehicle that is driven at 140 mph for 7 minutes and is floored to accelerate 0-60 in 3.7 seconds constantly will run out of juice pretty fast. Be it electric or gasoline
ChadersGaming Electrics have always better accleration, look at the railways, electrics have always better acceleration than diesels of the same class. It's because of the limitations of Piston Engines, they only have maximum effectiveness in a very narrow range of rpms, which can be somewhat mitigated by using a gear. But then a gear box isn't very effective, which was why most locos are today either Diesel-hydraulic* (smaller part) or diesel electric**. Though both technologies, especially Diesel electric is to heavy for a car....and maybe to dangerous An electric traction motor has no such effective rpm problems, you want more acceleration, you just add more power, the effectiveness is the same over the whole range of power. *instead of a gearbox a hydraulic torque converter is used, much lighter than Diesel electric and therefore a loco has a higher power-to-weight ratio. Problems are it's high maintenance requirements, and the fact that if you want to generate electricy for onboard appliance, you will need to fit a small generator. Advantages, very light-weight compared to a Diesel electric, no generator needed, no high voltage electrics, therefore safer to use for the common man, and 85-95% efficiency for modern torque converters. ** The diesel electric is use to drive a generator, via a driveshaft. The generator generates electricity which is then used to drive electric traction motors. It's an electric loco that carries it's own onboard generator, kinda like if you stuck one of these emergency diesel generators on board a loco and used it to drive the loco. The problem with that technology is that you need an engine, and a generator, which makes it very heavy. The advantage is that it's very rugged and even works on minimal maintenance and electric power for onboard appliances is created as a byproduct. Now if you could make that technology light enough for a car........and then used the generator to produce electricity during braking... Dunno how far that is included in hybrids, and then there is the fact that there is some serious high voltage and high ampere in Diesel Electric. Edit: Well, engine breaking could be done very easily, if the have rotary current traction motors, because you can turn them into recuperating brakes, or in other words a generator. Which would help with the range, especially if you go downhill and have an effective one. The Taurus recuperating brake has an effectiveness of more than 90%, so 90% of the braking power goes out as juice into the overhead wires and only 10% are heat. Imagine that for a car.....
electric cars are great for the environment , but hell just yesterday a tesla rolled up right beside me while i was cycling i and i didnt even notice it, scared the hell outta me sometimes too quiet is dangerous
***** That means we should be looking at different ways to produce mass energy. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear... There's plenty of potential for improvement in those resources.
***** Not to mention that the efficiency of burning even fossil fuels at a power plant to create electricity is waaay higher than of petrol combustion happening locally in your engine. So still, a fraction of the pollution is produced by the electric car, even if its measured at the powerstations chimneys.
Electric cars save gas, that's it. They're not 'better for the environment' at all. The process of fabricating those batteries -- and then disposing of them when they're done in a few years -- is just as damaging to the environment as driving a car, just in a less visible way.
***** We absolutely will have oil for another 200 years. Maybe even more. Environmentalists have been predicting '10 more years of oil' for the last fifty years, and they're just as wrong now as they've ever been. It's a big planet, and there's plenty of oil out there.
@@dbclass4075 Damn I posted that 9 years ago. I've driven many EVs since then and contrary to my previous belief, the whole no noise thing doesn't bother me at all
Just wait until they perfect the production of graphene as a superconductor. 90% less weight than those conventional batteries, holds a charge 5 times longer and charges in minutes, not hours. We are truly seeing the supercar of the future here.
That´s all good and well and a thing that a lot off other things would benefit from. But why not also study how one can make a car make it´s own electricity? So that: "One day, you´ll buy a car to avoid power bills." -Mathias T.W.P
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen study how one can make a car make it's own electricity? you mean like a range extender? It's been done and it burn fuel, soo.. I'd prefer good batteries. If you mean making a car that produces it's own own electricity without you putting something in you're basically talking about a perpetuum mobile? only thing that might work in the future is highly efficient solar cells on the roof that charge your car when you're parking
Matthias Schmitt Yea. But I do beleve that: Air-intake-turbine-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and breaks. Might some time in the future be able to power a car to the extent that you´ll actually be ending up with more. SO. Then, when you come home with power in your extra batteries, you can plug it into the power grid of your house. You know, we have the problem now-a-days, that power transported in cables across vast distances decay awfully quickly. So the best would be having the thing that is gonna be using that power, to make it itself with turbine-air-intake-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and brakes.
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen There's no possible way for a car to drive and get more eletricity as it goes, as all the laws of physics goes, however ;do you mean ike when you break you get eletricity? but literally i don'tlike the idea of buying a car for eletricity, it doesnt make any sense. just, go for graphene batteries!
this is definitely one of my top favorite top gear films - it's so serious and shot in a way that evokes a bleak and timeless feeling. great television.
For the Porsche Taycan some serious canyon carving eat most of the battery in just over 35 minutes. You still need to leave some range to get to a charger. Ehh i guess that's some progress.
They are both the greatest presenters we have and probably will ever have, however, they are very different in character. Jeremy is a comedian and an award winning writer who knows a lot about cars. Chris is an auto journalist who knows a lot about cars and has witty and entertaining way of telling the facts. To put them head-to-head would be unfair as each brings something special to the table. Personally I think Jeremy appeals to a wider demographic of non-pistonheads which means he sells more. On the other hand Chris will keep any pistonhead like myself glued to the telly watching him describe details that we will barely remember or need. TopGear - lots of laughs & a few facts Drive/EVO - lots of facts & a few laughs Motor Trend - a bit of both Brian Cooley - a class of his own :)
It's pretty much the same car, only the SLS has 4 motors rather than 1 and was made by Tesla to show Mercedes how awesome they are. Its batteries are also different, they are set up in such a way that they provide a stupendous amount of current for a short amount of time. Not a lot of people seem to know this but the electric SLS is not really a mercedes at all.
Nope surprisingly Tesla Motors had next to no involvement with the SLS Electric project. Even though Daimler is a minor share holder in Tesla at the time. The battery pack and 4x motors are just very very different to what Tesla does and comes from Tesla's competitors. E.g. The battery back is from Korea guessing LG Chem, I believe the 4x motors are based on Axial Flux flat plate motors. What Tesla Motors did provide is the industry knowledge base on how to build a modern electric sports car.
It’s so weird to imagine that in 2013 the electric SLS was an oddity, the general idea of an electric super car in general felt so foreign and odd. Yet that was basically the writing on the wall. Now every upcoming super car and car in general seems to be heading towards electrification and it has become the norm rather than the exception. Interesting how quick things change
@@raulbila46 as a guy who grew up listening to V12s going full power on a drag strip, and went to bed listening to V8s being worked on. I still have to say I like electric better. Don’t get me wrong, it’s like old steam engines, there is a character and charm to gas power, but once we crack the power problem, it’s game over gas. And you would have to be mental to want a gas car by then anyway.
Go ahead, charge your electric car off the coal plant down the street. Yeah not joking, with russian oil being cut countries like Germany are opening up coal plants again. By the way, to make hundreds of electric cars it takes 500,000 gallons of water in dry regions that have the lithium and cobalt. Yeah it takes fossil fuels to divert and export water supplies. Lets also not forget the hydrochloric acid and other toxic compounds that are used, and the sheer destruction to the environment from mining down to get the raw materials. There is no free lunch. If you want to save the environment live close to work and use less energy. Any energy consumption hurts the environment and no amount of special interest investments into hiding how the forms we use it in will change that. I will personally never prefer the feeling of stored power to combustion power for driving either- regardless it annoys me how the media keeps acting like all these more expensive green energy options will save the environment. They wont. Individual decisions will. While we’re on that subject earth had about ten times more carbon in the atmosphere during the Cretaceous and its during this period mammals began to thrive and most of our ancestors began to evolve supposedly. Climate change will happen on its own with or without us through natural processes like procession of the equinox and plate tectonics. Ice is currently building in Antarctica faster than it is being lost in the arctic according to nasa from a 2016 study- due to how the earth is positioned to the sun. The position of the earth to the sun will cause climate change and nothing humans will do will stop it.
@@littleclairesboyfriend8392 amazing, more than 80 percent of what you just said, is wrong. Like wow good on you. Anyhow I’m fully carbon zero, produce all my own power, have my own water spring and as such an electric car is much better for my needs, I don’t pay for anything but the car itself, and the one time negative emission is just that, one negative. Honestly you morons who act like gas powered cars are going extinct should just shut it, news flash they are not, they will be around for ages. Now go play with your tinker toys and let those of us who want to stop paying utilities to do as we please
@@josecolon2717 Even still wanting a gas vehicle for fun, it will also be mental to use it as a daily driver when electric is more efficient in that regard.
To be fair at full throttle doing racing stuff the average petrol supercar is little better. Top Gear even did a film about it. Audi R8, Ferrari, Lambo etc all ran dry within 10 minutes of crazy stuff.
Yeah, but an SSD does not have any downsides besides its cost. An electric car still has its range as a downside, which is a pretty significant one as well.
Electric cars are really cool but when I'm driving a car I need to hear the engine sound for example the screaming sound of a Lamborghini V12 or the rumble of a Ford GT V8 or the turbo spool of the Toyota Supra's 2JZ. The sound is something that makes a car fun to drive. But I have to say that this SLS is really freaking impressive.
Agreed. Half of the reason I bought my Mustang was the ungodly sound it produces through the long tube headers and no catalytic converters. Yes, the AMG SLS ED is faster. Yes it's more expensive. But I wouldn't be caught dead in a car that uses the same power source as a dildo. Maybe that's what "ED" stands for...the SLS "Electric Dildo". Plus, who wants a car that you can't work on? One of those 864 batteries goes out guess what....time to hit the shop and drop a billion dollars. If my alternator goes out, I visit a parts store and fix it for next to nothing. Electric cars are like Segway scooters: they're functional, they fill a purpose but they lack life. Basically, they're cars for people that don't like having to own a car. Remember...no sound, no soul, no fun.
+EqualsThreeable ^This 200 mile range EVs in the 30k price range are coming next year. Wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the decade we can get one for 20k and with a 300 mile range.
+EqualsThreeable; but they are not comparable like that. We will see improvement in battery capacity per mass ratio and we will see prices coming down in the coming years, but your comparison is fundamentally flawed. You see inside the computer we move representation of information around, we can scale that representation (signals indicating bits and bytes) down year after year. However with the car we cannot scale down the people driving, year after year they are the same size, sometimes they even put on more weight, so it difficult to make the car take up less space, use less materials and use less energy. Batteries will get better, but much slower than computers did.
+rif42 what about scaling down the size of each battery cell and getting more energy storage and use out of smaller batteries, increased efficiency and holding capacities?
+EqualsThreeable; Yes batteries will get smaller and lighter but at a rate of a few percent per year due to things like more precise manufacturing, material purification, better packing of battery and better electronics for battery-management-system in car. Big change will require a tech break-through like change from Li-ion to Li-air, these exist in the labs but does not last many cycles, practical use maybe in 2025, maybe later. The main change we will see in coming year is that as Li-ion market scale up there will be bigger and more automated factories and that will lead to lower prices. You can compare batteries to solar PV not to computer chips.
Noise is ineffeciency, it's an energy loss. Noise doesn't make the wheels spin (because it's the main purpose of any kind of motor in a car, electric or not). We like the roar of an engine because since 100 years or so we are used to associate "engine=noise". But noise is a small part of the inefficiency of a motor, vibrations and heat are much more of a loss.
+pxidr Yes, so motorcycles are very INEFFICIENT, you hypocrite nerd. How dare you look down on petrolheads. You'll never understand their ways. We love it because it tells us the car has SOULL and isnt a mere machine.
It's really cool to see that Mercedes was thinking this far ahead about electric performance masheens back then and now to see what Ford is doing with it now with the electric Cobra Jet today. That will always be the fascinating thing about cars, everyone has a different idea of "what's best" and how they implement it for the end consumer to experience.
@@Fastwalker27 still won't changed my mind. They're still quick but boring. The only fun electric car i've ever driven is a Honda E. It's basically everything you have in the old classic Mini, except electric.
there have passed 7 years my friend and it didn't happen and will never happen, energetical world is not ready for that consumption of electricity by the whole EV
No sound = no fun You're not gonna need that kind of performance unless you're on a race track anyway. I like to hear something when you floor it, not silence....
You've got to be kidding!!!! It is as if a demon flying on the air soundless to get its prey!!! WITH THAT HORSEPOWER, THIS IS SOUNDLESS DEATH ITSELF!!!!
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This car hasn't aged at all .. still looks so good looking more than a decade later!!
Fact that this cars only 4 made to customers and cost more than million pounds nowadays... Dang this is only electric cars that never lost his Value
Like it more, than AMG GT
So it has or hasn't aged well?
@@ArnoldsKtm I think it has.
While it isn't exactly perfect for everyday life and usage, it is still another step towards development in electric vehicles which the future now supposedly lies.
It's like evolution in the way we transport ourselves. Man taming horses and using them for transport and trade was revolutionary, as was the invention of the aircraft as a commercial means of transportation.
Nothing will ever beat a Tesla on paper because they lie.
10 seconds of old top gear is more entertaining than a full episode of new top gear
like v8 and electrical engine
Wut
ZoeQuinnIsAMurderer I’m sure he’s referring to top gear USA
It’s awful
Definitely
Watching James May yelling "Clarkson!" once is more entertaining than today's Top Gear
I’m so glad there are “buttons that do things”
thank God
My car also has buttons..
but they don't do a shit!
It happens to me with a truck
It thought there was an insect behind the sterring wheel
But it was in fact some buttons wich do things too
They don't make cars like that anymore
I'm reminded of how Jeremy was once driving some kind of sports(?) car and ended up finding six buttons on the back of the steering wheel that did absolutely nothing
Legend says that this was the only time Jeremy liked an electric car...
Other one was geoff
@@m1co294 and the P1
@@biggusdickus5940 I thought that was technically a hybrid
@@discordpensiveemoji it is
He’s liked a few of the recent ones too despite preferring hybrids
Life hack. Police won't hear you speeding
But they can SEE you speeding tho
@@YOLOLMK they'll be too confused
YOLOLMK will they ?
Hahaha... but they will be seeing u pass by, cuz its Hella bright
Even satellites can see ur car
" It's not a torch!!!" It would have been if they had let Hammond drive it.
Like wrecking ball?
lmao
Most underrated comment😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMAOO
LOL
"How can a glorified torch possibly beat a 6.2 liter v8...."
"ITS NOT A TORCH" XD
It is a rampant rabbit
Its a freaking flashlight
Its my dad
Highlighter
Its a MICROWAVE!
This is 6 years ago and I’m still blown away by the electric sls
I wonder how good it would be with modern batteries and tech in it. It could probably go 300 miles on a charge and make more power
This episode is from 2013
*yawn
Still will never be as good as the real thing
@@kennorcott7074 Garbage. Will never be as good as ICE
Petrol: "brutal, monstrous, a true sound of power and fear!"
Electric car passes by: "wiiiiiiiiiiioooooooo...."
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I think you mean “ ____________________ “
@@raptormaverick4774 thats most electric cars, this one sounded like a snowflake dropping its frappe latte, foam topped, fucky wucky bullshit coffee...
@@Gisune I'd cry too if I dropped a dessert that costs 9 bucks lol
Ruben A - ok boomer
"Which is enough to take it from here to the moon"
*Elon Musk wants to know your location*
Jonathan Simmel dude that was classic 🤝👏
Then Elon Musk made a kitchen utensil that looks like a Renault Espace
Speaking of #Tesla, I'd like to know what JC thinks of the #Cybertruck...
@Luka doncic is better than lebron james i dont remember asking
Haha 7 mins and -44% battery on Sport+ hahahhaha Elon, please don't ROFL
“It is a glorified torch “
Takes off
“ITS NOT A TORCH!!!!!”
Its like a hairdryer which spits 🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see your account in the commebt sectionsm. Like a lot
@@binnysebastian51 lol true
Tito........... zaista
You know what's crazy is this clip is almost a decade old and that car still looks cutting-edge brand new. It looked so good back then and it still looks phenomenal now compared to so many other designs that have not aged well.
Would explain the Mercedes F1 dominance during the Hybrid Era
And the normal f1
Hybrid race cars are a bit of a misconception when it comes to environmental friendlness, unlike say a Toyota Prius. They do not have much range on the battery. The electric motor comes in with the engine to give more power under acceleration. When the power is off the motor turns into a generator and charges the battery.
Doesn't explain McLaren Mercedes
nuromie uwu mclaren Mercedes dripped Mercedes as there engine provider
@@ismail.mahmood11 Yea I know. Renault and Honda were jokes (though Honda isn't now).
That electric SLS looks like its printed from a 3D printer.
hahahahah
LOL That's true! :D
It is as quiet as a library for church mice
Kshitij Anand maybe it is o_O
shhh... anand u just broke mercedes secret!!!
I'm German and I respect the Brits, really! They truly have petrol in their veins. They even put used motor oil on their sandwiches. I think it's called MARMITE!
haha nice
I cannot believe Germans can actually make a joke.
+amvj007 I think we can actually be really funny in our own way:D
Deutschland macht mit die besten Autos ;)
we are quite a funny folk but the rest of the world doesn't understand our jokes
It's amazing how far we've come in the past six years. Back in 2014 most electric vehicles were basically small batch novelties with high price tags created as publicity stunts, and now we've got tonnes of small, affordable(ish) vehicles from dozens of car companies that are rolling off the line all the time. And they don't need 20 hour charge times anymore either, which is nice.
they don't need 20 hours of charge but to travel the whole distance the V8 does, you do need that time summed up
They're still garbage. We haven't come anywhere. They will always be limited in range and charging speed. They are NOT the future. Electric is the oldest car technology and it failed miserably then, and will continue to fail miserably to achieve anything
@@raulbila46 True, but it's fairly rare that someone needs to travel the full range of an electric car's battery before being able to stop and recharge. Most BEVs you can buy now have ranges well in excess of 300 miles. That range is enough to cover nearly all everyday applications, particularly in urban areas with plenty of charging ports.
Doesnt existed some tipe of fast charge somewhere 8 years ago?
@@Christopher_TG also today there is fast charge a bit everywhere
Don't drive with your clown shoes on.. Best pro tip ever!
*****
electric drive is much heavier
yeah, ya got me. but r YOU even a clown driving an AMG Mercedes benz huh?
MAYBE.............................................................
Hamilton at Spa this weekend..🤣🤣
DAMN, JEREMY is good at this JOB
DAMN HI IS !!!!!!
I WANT HIM BACK !!!!
Chill down, he will return in 'The Grand Tour' ;^)
Fedor Amuricano
Was*
Jeremy does this job better than anyone...
...IN THE WORLD.
2:01 I love his reaction but you have to remember this was filmed in 2013 or 2014 and electric cars were not as commonplace back then as they are now
Fuck EVs. Absolute trash. Will never beat a real car.
They're still not commonplace you deluded idiot. LOL
4:17 “(Watt) in the name ... is (Powering) this thing”
5:56 “which wheel should have (Watt) amount of power?”
Legit.
M8, are you trying to be some bright spark?
Underrated.
ahh i see what you did there
Mercedes, remove the electric motor sound isolators of the car, so the noise of the whining coils of the 4 electric motors whine as much as they want.
You can hear the whine of the motors in the vid when he accelerates at 6:02. Btw it's not sound isolators, it's sound deadening. And yes it's slightly pointless in an electric car. It adds more weight to the car....
Y the hel r u putting this in a top gear video just go to mercedes
Whine = inefficiency
@@aaryeshg.6526 You'd be surprised about how many noises a car makes when it's not isolated. If you heard the sounds from the brakes, the shock absorbers and the chassis bending while driving, you'd think it's going to fall apart. Ah, and don't forget about tyre noise.
@@aaryeshg.6526
Its not pointless. That gets super annoying after a bit so its better when its as quite as possible.
top gear editing is on another level. One of the best videos.
JC: "What in the name of God is powering this thing?"
God: "Well now that you mention it..."
Atheists...
JC: "What unbelievable thing is powering this thing"
: i can answer that, batteries
incoming r/woosh
but no, "in the name of God", "the hell" & "unbelievable thing" are interchangeable
what are u even saying
JC = jesus Christ
I have never ever watched a topgear episode or an grand tour episode without being entertained. These guys seem to never miss the mark. True entertainment legends.
when they make nano batteries man... holy shit...
Bloodybarbie graphene...
+Luke Rees he said when not how
Did you mean capacitors? Cause a nano battery is just a small battery
+Zachary Lee
And a capacitor is an electrical component.. Capacitors store charge until the Volt is high enough to pass through the dielectric material and unload the charge to the rest of the circuit. Nothing to do with nano batteries. I'm sure what bloodybarbie meant was batteries with the same charge just smaller in size.
Nobody like this any more. It has 555 likes
The SLS AMG-E is just an engineering exercise, not a car for series production. Only a handful of them exist and kiddies here wonder why it costs a fortune.
2:03 when I first saw this episode, I turned up the volume to almost Max, and was deafened by the silence....
"Welcome, everyone, to the world's first electric supercar". When Clarkson says this, it makes it so interesting and captivating.
Old top gear videos are addictive
6:28 First time hearing Deadmau5 in something not music related lol. Great choice though
Superliminal baby!!
They know how to use music and especially techno, it goes really well with the tests! It gives some kind of nervousness with it totally matched with the car they're testing 'bet they had good sound engineer back then.
Fits very well really!
Superliminal gang!
Deadmau5 and Top Gear omng!
Fucking love supeliminal was waiting for someone to notice
I hope Mercedes revisits this soon. I’d love to see how much the technology has advanced.
"What in the name of god, is powering this thing?"
God i love british accent...
Am I the only one that really really likes the paint job on the electric? I can't get over it.
+George Rosebush the rather well known Solarbeam colour option for the newer SLS is around £11,000 and thats no typo........ but god its beautiful
+George Rosebush nope, and I do wish they had showed the other SLS in the orange paint it looks so good in.
+George Rosebush I just had a search and the blue one is unbelievable also.
i want that car..
More, like, Im the only one who hates it and will choose the gray one every day...
0:37 one of the best and the most mesmerising scenes in REAL Top Gear I've ever seen
I remember watching this on tv and I thought “wow this lime car is gonna be loud” but then...
I’ve decided this is an electric car I wouldn’t object to owning.
ah, the good old days
Don't understand all the negative comments about this vehicle's range.
The battery technology that was used for this car is several years old, it is not surprising that it runs out so fast. Also, this is a prototype car,not really a production vehicle and is only sold if ordered to build.
In contrast the all electric Tesla Model S can go 200+ miles on a charge of real world driving without breaking a sweat; goes 0-60 in 4.2 seconds and has sitting room for 5 adults.
The SLS electric with it's older battery technology which is less energy dense and heavier, accelerates 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and has less a little over 100 miles of range.
Alas, any vehicle that is driven at 140 mph for 7 minutes and is floored to accelerate 0-60 in 3.7 seconds constantly will run out of juice pretty fast. Be it electric or gasoline
Several dude this car was built before 2004
Several dude this car was built before 2004
Although they do have better acceleration
Mikolaj Lukasik Are u fucking kidding me?! 2004.... thats SLR not SLS
ChadersGaming
Electrics have always better accleration, look at the railways, electrics have always better acceleration than diesels of the same class.
It's because of the limitations of Piston Engines, they only have maximum effectiveness in a very narrow range of rpms, which can be somewhat mitigated by using a gear.
But then a gear box isn't very effective, which was why most locos are today either Diesel-hydraulic* (smaller part) or diesel electric**.
Though both technologies, especially Diesel electric is to heavy for a car....and maybe to dangerous
An electric traction motor has no such effective rpm problems, you want more acceleration, you just add more power, the effectiveness is the same over the whole range of power.
*instead of a gearbox a hydraulic torque converter is used, much lighter than Diesel electric and therefore a loco has a higher power-to-weight ratio.
Problems are it's high maintenance requirements, and the fact that if you want to generate electricy for onboard appliance, you will need to fit a small generator.
Advantages, very light-weight compared to a Diesel electric, no generator needed, no high voltage electrics, therefore safer to use for the common man, and 85-95% efficiency for modern torque converters.
** The diesel electric is use to drive a generator, via a driveshaft.
The generator generates electricity which is then used to drive electric traction motors.
It's an electric loco that carries it's own onboard generator, kinda like if you stuck one of these emergency diesel generators on board a loco and used it to drive the loco.
The problem with that technology is that you need an engine, and a generator, which makes it very heavy.
The advantage is that it's very rugged and even works on minimal maintenance and electric power for onboard appliances is created as a byproduct.
Now if you could make that technology light enough for a car........and then used the generator to produce electricity during braking...
Dunno how far that is included in hybrids, and then there is the fact that there is some serious high voltage and high ampere in Diesel Electric.
Edit: Well, engine breaking could be done very easily, if the have rotary current traction motors, because you can turn them into recuperating brakes, or in other words a generator.
Which would help with the range, especially if you go downhill and have an effective one.
The Taurus recuperating brake has an effectiveness of more than 90%, so 90% of the braking power goes out as juice into the overhead wires and only 10% are heat.
Imagine that for a car.....
Meanwhile at the Toyota Prius factory...
Why is the old top gear episode is sooo goood
electric cars are great for the environment , but hell just yesterday a tesla rolled up right beside me while i was cycling i and i didnt even notice it, scared the hell outta me
sometimes too quiet is dangerous
***** That means we should be looking at different ways to produce mass energy. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear... There's plenty of potential for improvement in those resources.
*****
Not to mention that the efficiency of burning even fossil fuels at a power plant to create electricity is waaay higher than of petrol combustion happening locally in your engine. So still, a fraction of the pollution is produced by the electric car, even if its measured at the powerstations chimneys.
Electric cars save gas, that's it. They're not 'better for the environment' at all. The process of fabricating those batteries -- and then disposing of them when they're done in a few years -- is just as damaging to the environment as driving a car, just in a less visible way.
***** We absolutely will have oil for another 200 years. Maybe even more.
Environmentalists have been predicting '10 more years of oil' for the last fifty years, and they're just as wrong now as they've ever been. It's a big planet, and there's plenty of oil out there.
TJP77 Your lies are tedious.
It is as quiet as a library for church mice! LMAO!
Lmao*
Me Or You Thanks ;)
+rvmvadati *quiet
+ZeHoSmusician Thanks
+rvmvadati a*
Driving an electric car would be interesting, but just the thought of flooring on the accelerator and hearing nothing will screw with my mind D:
You can always add a engine sound box. Just think everyday you could get inside of your car and have the sound of a different cars engine.
There would be a lot of screeching.
One solution can be found in some ICE vehicles: a sound tunnel connecting the engine/motor to the cabin.
@@dbclass4075 Damn I posted that 9 years ago. I've driven many EVs since then and contrary to my previous belief, the whole no noise thing doesn't bother me at all
03:48 "And it's electric like a food blender or a torch" 😂
1:42 "this is the first car ever to come with its own high visibility jacket."
So Mercedes-Benz knows how to prevent it from getting hit by a train?
Can serve as a compensation for being practically soundless.
Never thought Undertale fans were car enthusiasts as well
Just wait until they perfect the production of graphene as a superconductor. 90% less weight than those conventional batteries, holds a charge 5 times longer and charges in minutes, not hours.
We are truly seeing the supercar of the future here.
Wish I could afford it.
Harbinger Reaper Get a Job then! :D
How times have changed eh? Now we have cars like the Lucid Air & Porsche Taycan
I like how they don't put a link to buy this car because they know the viewers have no money.
people who buy such cars dont watch youtube video at 3 am. they buy them even before they are well advertised and popular
Am I offeneded?
Yes
Do I agree?
Absolutely.
@@user-ru1eq7tw4y yes because rich people do research before they buy cars
No, they know sane people shouldn't bother
You can't buy this car even if you had the money. What a stupid comment.
Who else had the SLS Electric Drive in Asphalt 8?
That car is trash lol
I had
Yes
Me
I got it for free way back when they launched the event
Watching this in 2019 feels sooo strange 😂
Luca De Righetti this was the first top gear episode I ever watched, so yeah it brings back memories
I hope the studies of graphene batteries are succesful, because if so, you could charge your car in 7 seconds
That´s all good and well and a thing that a lot off other things would benefit from. But why not also study how one can make a car make it´s own electricity? So that: "One day, you´ll buy a car to avoid power bills." -Mathias T.W.P
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen study how one can make a car make it's own electricity? you mean like a range extender? It's been done and it burn fuel, soo.. I'd prefer good batteries.
If you mean making a car that produces it's own own electricity without you putting something in you're basically talking about a perpetuum mobile?
only thing that might work in the future is highly efficient solar cells on the roof that charge your car when you're parking
Matthias Schmitt Yea. But I do beleve that: Air-intake-turbine-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and breaks. Might some time in the future be able to power a car to the extent that you´ll actually be ending up with more. SO. Then, when you come home with power in your extra batteries, you can plug it into the power grid of your house.
You know, we have the problem now-a-days, that power transported in cables across vast distances decay awfully quickly. So the best would be having the thing that is gonna be using that power, to make it itself with turbine-air-intake-tubes, solar panels, thermostatic and brakes.
Mathias Tang Wa Pedersen There's no possible way for a car to drive and get more eletricity as it goes, as all the laws of physics goes, however ;do you mean ike when you break you get eletricity? but literally i don'tlike the idea of buying a car for eletricity, it doesnt make any sense. just, go for graphene batteries!
NorwegianVikingArt Keep my word in mind. Within 2080 it´ll be possible. Believe what you want. But I believe it´s possible.
03:48 "and it's electric, like a food blender" xD Jeremy man I miss you
this is definitely one of my top favorite top gear films - it's so serious and shot in a way that evokes a bleak and timeless feeling. great television.
its 2019 now and you just need an hour to charge it
My electric car takes a minute to charge, 200 miles cost £5 and the fuel station is open 24/7 365 days a year with no queues no dirt no smells ....
@@teslatrev5764 which car it is?
@@FaisalKhan76 Tesla model 3
@@teslatrev5764 There aren't very many super chargers in England though. Especially in the north so it is still impractical
*an hour
The old Top Gear had an amazing editing.
44% in 7 minutes. huge battery drain.
And if he even fly with it, its to much.
+Dato Alavidze My phone is better than that, and it's crap! xD
+Luca Munro this car is for sport and race, not for drive like a prius!
And i not say prius is bad! ^^
+SupraStunting u make a mistake bro,. Yes, Prius actually is very very ugly
+ganymedeIV4 one lap at the nurburgring is 20km long
This really is an example of an automotive company pioneering innovation for the industry.
Vegan vs Non-Vegan
When doing physical exercise, the vegan will run out of energy in 15 minutes.
Henri Zwols Lewis Hamilton is a vegan and i guarantee he has a better physical condition than you.
I know you were joking but still
Henri Zwols lmao dude 😂😂😂
Henri Zwols yeah haha, and the meateater isn’t even able to compete cause he’s too weak
>triggered, malnourished vegans respond
lmao
This might be my favorite Top Gear review. If even stubborn old Clarkson is impressed by an electric car, you know they're doing something right.
1:56 totally fell for it. gotta love Mercedes
one of my absolute favorite episodes ever, jeremys commentary is second to none. an absolute blast listening to him
From today onward, I will never accept a drag race challenge from someone who claims he will race me with an electric car.
7 minutes 44 percent of the battery 😂 oh boy
Just like my old IPhone
For the Porsche Taycan some serious canyon carving eat most of the battery in just over 35 minutes. You still need to leave some range to get to a charger. Ehh i guess that's some progress.
@Marvi Wilson Good Point atleast the Tech is improving. Once 45 Minute Track Session is doable you have a usable track weapon.
Jeremy is perhaps the best presenter in the world imop..
Steven McMiert im going to have to say Jeremy is better for sure but Chris Carris is a close second, with Matt Farah being a distant third.
They are both the greatest presenters we have and probably will ever have, however, they are very different in character. Jeremy is a comedian and an award winning writer who knows a lot about cars. Chris is an auto journalist who knows a lot about cars and has witty and entertaining way of telling the facts. To put them head-to-head would be unfair as each brings something special to the table. Personally I think Jeremy appeals to a wider demographic of non-pistonheads which means he sells more. On the other hand Chris will keep any pistonhead like myself glued to the telly watching him describe details that we will barely remember or need.
TopGear - lots of laughs & a few facts
Drive/EVO - lots of facts & a few laughs
Motor Trend - a bit of both
Brian Cooley - a class of his own :)
This level of editing is just beyond everything from these days.
Casually playing some Deadmau5 at 6:45
Canadican I swear it's not deadmau5😂
ImSeRiX it is, deadmau5 - Superliminal
I was shocked when I first heard it. Never thought I'd hear deadmau5 song in Top Gear
Top Gear has always used trendy songs in their films, they once playes Belly Dancer by Akon in the background while reviewing a Ford Focus
You’ve got to love they included “superliminal” from Deadmau5 at the end of the video.
And the video itself too, of course
I was just about to comment on that, I couldn't help noticing it.
WCburnsie 0 I wish people made more cars videos with this kind of music...
Does anyone know the music at 0:38??
I know this video for 6 years and no one could tell me, which music it is.. 😌
In 2014 electric supercars were thought of as mythical. Now we get one every Sunday.
"This is a serious car I bet it doesn't know any jokes"😂😂
God I miss Jeremy clarkson
me too i miss top gear uk i find it better than top gear usa and even better than the new top gear
Old Top Gear UK > The Grand Tour.
ArdaBlock true
@@rdablock I love both, Old Top Gear has the slight edge though
Why does the electric sls have paddle shifters?
Probably to control Regen.
to change between reverse, drive and park maybe. I've seen other Mercedes have them for that purpose.
Gravemind its for the regen braking, the SLSs have a stubby little gear selector in the middle of the interior
Electric Motor shifting duuh
*only Mercedes knows*
electric sls vs Tesla p90d?
It's pretty much the same car, only the SLS has 4 motors rather than 1 and was made by Tesla to show Mercedes how awesome they are. Its batteries are also different, they are set up in such a way that they provide a stupendous amount of current for a short amount of time. Not a lot of people seem to know this but the electric SLS is not really a mercedes at all.
Nope surprisingly Tesla Motors had next to no involvement with the SLS Electric project. Even though Daimler is a minor share holder in Tesla at the time. The battery pack and 4x motors are just very very different to what Tesla does and comes from Tesla's competitors. E.g. The battery back is from Korea guessing LG Chem, I believe the 4x motors are based on Axial Flux flat plate motors. What Tesla Motors did provide is the industry knowledge base on how to build a modern electric sports car.
Are you sure? The popular book "Elon Musk" by Ashlee Vance claims the exact opposite.
Because electric car, did not exist before Tesla ...yeah right.
Avi Oberoi the SLS will win for sure
The moment he said "the world's first electric super car..." I sfrolled straight to the comments
2:51 What happened to that 747 in the background? It looks like they strapped two engines onto each inner pylon!
It’s so weird to imagine that in 2013 the electric SLS was an oddity, the general idea of an electric super car in general felt so foreign and odd. Yet that was basically the writing on the wall.
Now every upcoming super car and car in general seems to be heading towards electrification and it has become the norm rather than the exception. Interesting how quick things change
get ready to drive again petrol engines, because electric cars just go fast but will never bring those goosebumps hearing it roaring at high RPMs
@@raulbila46 as a guy who grew up listening to V12s going full power on a drag strip, and went to bed listening to V8s being worked on. I still have to say I like electric better.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s like old steam engines, there is a character and charm to gas power, but once we crack the power problem, it’s game over gas. And you would have to be mental to want a gas car by then anyway.
Go ahead, charge your electric car off the coal plant down the street. Yeah not joking, with russian oil being cut countries like Germany are opening up coal plants again. By the way, to make hundreds of electric cars it takes 500,000 gallons of water in dry regions that have the lithium and cobalt. Yeah it takes fossil fuels to divert and export water supplies. Lets also not forget the hydrochloric acid and other toxic compounds that are used, and the sheer destruction to the environment from mining down to get the raw materials. There is no free lunch. If you want to save the environment live close to work and use less energy. Any energy consumption hurts the environment and no amount of special interest investments into hiding how the forms we use it in will change that.
I will personally never prefer the feeling of stored power to combustion power for driving either- regardless it annoys me how the media keeps acting like all these more expensive green energy options will save the environment. They wont. Individual decisions will. While we’re on that subject earth had about ten times more carbon in the atmosphere during the Cretaceous and its during this period mammals began to thrive and most of our ancestors began to evolve supposedly. Climate change will happen on its own with or without us through natural processes like procession of the equinox and plate tectonics. Ice is currently building in Antarctica faster than it is being lost in the arctic according to nasa from a 2016 study- due to how the earth is positioned to the sun. The position of the earth to the sun will cause climate change and nothing humans will do will stop it.
@@littleclairesboyfriend8392 amazing, more than 80 percent of what you just said, is wrong. Like wow good on you.
Anyhow I’m fully carbon zero, produce all my own power, have my own water spring and as such an electric car is much better for my needs, I don’t pay for anything but the car itself, and the one time negative emission is just that, one negative. Honestly you morons who act like gas powered cars are going extinct should just shut it, news flash they are not, they will be around for ages.
Now go play with your tinker toys and let those of us who want to stop paying utilities to do as we please
@@josecolon2717 Even still wanting a gas vehicle for fun, it will also be mental to use it as a daily driver when electric is more efficient in that regard.
Its a fast car but only for 15 minutes.
+Emre Karaman At max power driving year 15 min on the race track
Like Sex
To be fair at full throttle doing racing stuff the average petrol supercar is little better. Top Gear even did a film about it. Audi R8, Ferrari, Lambo etc all ran dry within 10 minutes of crazy stuff.
Emre Karaman and as the technology progresses it will be a faster car for longer and longer periods of time.
HD Campbell there is no way you can drain a full tank within 15 min, drive it as hard as you can it won’t be possible.
classic top gear
ssd vs hdd...LOL
Ssds pull ahead more than that though
Axecution its called rimac :D
Yeah, but an SSD does not have any downsides besides its cost. An electric car still has its range as a downside, which is a pretty significant one as well.
1313e ssd have downsides too.They have limited write cycles whereas hdds have unlimited number of writes as long as it’s functioning
Sascomer Random by the time your ssd runs out of write cycles you've already upgraded to a newer model. And that newer model would last even longer
The time when all cars become electric is the time I stop being interested in cars
So nearly a decade later... still think that?
Just watching one member of the legendary trio is more exciting than the new entire cast
"And many buttons that do things" i love Jeremy's comprehensive reviews 😂
4:14 when the future hit you hard
love the colour for the electric car
Yuup me too
+jonavuka It's okay to have bad taste.
+nilsvids its OK to be insane
+danrg26 You gotta agree it's a bit violent on the eyes. I think it's ok, except the grille.
3:53 The answer you're looking for is instant torque
Drag racing an electric car with a gas car is so pointless. Good entertainment for non car people though.
One of my all time favorite top gear reviews.
Electric cars are really cool but when I'm driving a car I need to hear the engine sound for example the screaming sound of a Lamborghini V12 or the rumble of a Ford GT V8 or the turbo spool of the Toyota Supra's 2JZ. The sound is something that makes a car fun to drive. But I have to say that this SLS is really freaking impressive.
Agreed. Half of the reason I bought my Mustang was the ungodly sound it produces through the long tube headers and no catalytic converters. Yes, the AMG SLS ED is faster. Yes it's more expensive. But I wouldn't be caught dead in a car that uses the same power source as a dildo. Maybe that's what "ED" stands for...the SLS "Electric Dildo".
Plus, who wants a car that you can't work on? One of those 864 batteries goes out guess what....time to hit the shop and drop a billion dollars. If my alternator goes out, I visit a parts store and fix it for next to nothing. Electric cars are like Segway scooters: they're functional, they fill a purpose but they lack life. Basically, they're cars for people that don't like having to own a car.
Remember...no sound, no soul, no fun.
I couldn't say that any better myself!
@@swagisghey Sadly, the majority who own cars do not want to drive.
If battery life in cars is anything like computer memory in computers. In 25 years this will be economical AND lightweight.
+EqualsThreeable
^This
200 mile range EVs in the 30k price range are coming next year. Wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the decade we can get one for 20k and with a 300 mile range.
+EqualsThreeable; but they are not comparable like that. We will see improvement in battery capacity per mass ratio and we will see prices coming down in the coming years, but your comparison is fundamentally flawed. You see inside the computer we move representation of information around, we can scale that representation (signals indicating bits and bytes) down year after year. However with the car we cannot scale down the people driving, year after year they are the same size, sometimes they even put on more weight, so it difficult to make the car take up less space, use less materials and use less energy. Batteries will get better, but much slower than computers did.
+rif42 what about scaling down the size of each battery cell and getting more energy storage and use out of smaller batteries, increased efficiency and holding capacities?
+EqualsThreeable; Yes batteries will get smaller and lighter but at a rate of a few percent per year due to things like more precise manufacturing, material purification, better packing of battery and better electronics for battery-management-system in car. Big change will require a tech break-through like change from Li-ion to Li-air, these exist in the labs but does not last many cycles, practical use maybe in 2025, maybe later. The main change we will see in coming year is that as Li-ion market scale up there will be bigger and more automated factories and that will lead to lower prices. You can compare batteries to solar PV not to computer chips.
rif42 Good to know, can't wait til the future!
The iPhone of electric cars. You look at it, half of the battery is gone^^
Time flies so fast...
It's not yelllow.. It is GREEN!
Wind Mill its lime green
Green... Lime Green... its somewhere in the green spectrum. But definitely not yellow.
Soham Chak maybe...If you're a bat! :)
Oops.. I just play car games and comment about it's colors. Good reference though.
Neon green?
Noise is ineffeciency, it's an energy loss.
Noise doesn't make the wheels spin (because it's the main purpose of any kind of motor in a car, electric or not).
We like the roar of an engine because since 100 years or so we are used to associate "engine=noise".
But noise is a small part of the inefficiency of a motor, vibrations and heat are much more of a loss.
+pxidr I mean, your last statement is in no way correct tbh, but other than that sure
The more energy an engine produces, the more wastage (noise) occurs.
+teenwilliam1000
Waste through noise, heat and vibrations...
Yeah but the noise of sportvcars is gorg
+pxidr Yes, so motorcycles are very INEFFICIENT, you hypocrite nerd. How dare you look down on petrolheads. You'll never understand their ways. We love it because it tells us the car has SOULL and isnt a mere machine.
7:39 - one of my favourite Geramy Clarkson quotes!
Yes!
It's really cool to see that Mercedes was thinking this far ahead about electric performance masheens back then and now to see what Ford is doing with it now with the electric Cobra Jet today. That will always be the fascinating thing about cars, everyone has a different idea of "what's best" and how they implement it for the end consumer to experience.
Its depressing to think that all cars will be electric someday
For real boring to drive those
@@Norcal1990
You have probably never driven a Tesla before
@@Fastwalker27 still won't changed my mind. They're still quick but boring. The only fun electric car i've ever driven is a Honda E. It's basically everything you have in the old classic Mini, except electric.
@@nobedz6688 yeah but like 99% of evs are suvs
there have passed 7 years my friend and it didn't happen and will never happen, energetical world is not ready for that consumption of electricity by the whole EV
No sound = no fun
You're not gonna need that kind of performance unless you're on a race track anyway.
I like to hear something when you floor it, not silence....
They built this to prove that Electric cars have the potential to be better than gas cars. Still far to come but its a hell of a start.
Add8adam MC™ Synthetic fossil fuel is a thing you know.
Would it make you feel better if they added fake engine sounds grandpa?
You've got to be kidding!!!! It is as if a demon flying on the air soundless to get its prey!!!
WITH THAT HORSEPOWER, THIS IS SOUNDLESS DEATH ITSELF!!!!
Nikko Read That is actually really stupid. Come on, I payed for a $105,000 iPhone?
"You'd have to be soft in the head" my favourite expression of all time from now on
It's a very old and very common British saying.
@@54356776 yeah i've never heard it before
I literally turned up the volume and thought my speakers were fried🤣
Clarkson: Well, turn up the volume on your TV and listen to this
The sound of the car: .......😂
😁😁😁😁😁😁 I just waited
Clarkson is king in doing reviews! this one I enjoyed so much!
This will never get old 💯
Literally 🤣 I just find myself here at times
Literally!!!🤣🤣
So quality video thank you @topgear I Be Love to SLS 😍