With Tesla’s spectacular Model S Plaid event and Ford’s Maverick reveal, it can be hard to remember that we’ve been suffering a shortage of both new and used vehicles. Today, we got sightings of both a Spy-shot Clad Rivian R1S, and a show-room floor Ford Mustang Mach E in the wild. I’d like to think that at least some of the waiting for deliveries on ordered vehicles may finally be coming to an end.
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.