Tesla Model 3 Vs. Amtrak’s Acela Express: The Electric Future Acid Test

The basic idea was simple: Race a car against a train. It’s a story as old as the automobile, dating back to those Fitzgeraldian days when wealthy white men would race their newfangled Rovers and Bentleys against the likes of France’s Blue Train simply for kicks. But our version at The Drive came with a distinctly 21st Century twist: Run one of the latest and greatest electric cars against the nation’s top-of-the-line electric train from New York City to Boston, in a battle for no less than the future of American transportation supremacy. (Or, at the very least, bragging rights.)

To represent the United States’s mass transit system, there could be only one choice: the Amtrak Acela Express.
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