Plaid Data

Plaid Data

Interesting to see the Motortrend test of the Tesla Model S Plaid:

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-s/2021/2022-tesla-model-s-plaid-first-test-review/

On a prepped surface:
0-60: 1.98 seconds (with rollout of course)
1/4: 9.25 @152mph

On a non prepped surface:
0-60: 2.07 second (with rollout of course)
0-60: 2.28 second (without rollout)
1/4: 9.34@152mph

60-130: 4.7 s

Some interesting quotes:

“The Plaid covers distance so quickly, it’s difficult to even register what’s happening. The yoke gets light in your hands, your neck muscles strain as your helmeted head digs into the headrest, and your surroundings blur into mere shapes and colors as a quarter mile of pavement vanishes underneath you.”

“Even more impressive and true to Tesla’s word, the Plaid is capable of posting those times consistently, never varying by more than a fraction of a second or so each time we rocketed down the strip. We’ve never tested a car so robotic in its consistency.”

“Amusingly, the Plaid launches so ferociously hard, it generates more than 1.00 g from 0.2 second to 2.6 seconds after launch, peaking at 1.227 g at 32 mph. That’s more g than the car generated in its best 60-0-mph stop, which required 104 feet and peaked at 1.221 g.”

“Not content with shattering our 0-60 and quarter-mile records, the Model S Plaid claimed yet another one: Its blistering 0-100-0-mph result was 8.2 seconds, besting the previous record holder, the McLaren Senna, by 0.3 second.”

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