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Engineering Explained: No, Model S Plaid Can t Hit 60 MPH In Under 2 Seconds
May 05, 2021 at 10:22pm ET ++ 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.
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The all-new part isn’t an understatement, partly because this variant of the Model S employs three motors instead of a dual-motor arrangement. Priced at $119,990 including destination and documentation fees, the Plaid is described as “the quickest-accelerating car in production today.” 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) takes only 1.99 seconds, the quarter-mile run is over in 9.23 seconds, and peak output is estimated at 1,020 ponies.
In addition to straight-line performance, the Model S Plaid also handles like nobody’s business thanks to something called torque vectoring. One motor for each rear wheel means that software can overdrive the outside wheel to pull the car around a corner, which is a serious improvement over the open differential of the former Model S Performance and Model S Long Range.
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