Engineering Explained: No, Model S Plaid Can't Hit 60 MPH In Under 2 Seconds
May 05, 2021 at 10:22pm ET
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And he's got a whiteboard full of figures to prove it!
The popular YouTube channel Engineering Explained has a problem with Tesla's claim that the Model S Plaid and Plaid Plus can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under 2 seconds.
And that means Tesla has a problem because the host of the channel, Jason Fenske, doesn't make claims he cannot back up with science, facts, a whiteboard and a bunch of multi-colored dry erase markers.
The issue at the heart of the problem is the fact that Tesla uses "rollout" to achieve the claimed sub-2-second 0 to 60 times for the New Model S Plaid and Plaid+. In other words, it's not 0 to 60 mph, it's more like 6 to 60 mph since the Plaid and Plaid Plus will likely have accelerated to 6 mph by the time they have traveled the one-foot rollout and Tesla's stopwatch starts.