Tesla Mannequin S Plaid units a brand new report in a quarter-mile drag racing try which places it among the many record of prime world information.
The Tesla Mannequin S Plaid luxurious electrical sedan accomplished the 1/4-mile run in simply 8.59 seconds at a velocity of 162.33 mph (261 km/h).
The automobile didn’t simply make a brand new quarter-mile report, it additionally accelerated from 0-60 seconds in simply 1.88 seconds. That is 0.11 seconds sooner than the very best 0-60 mph report of 1.99 seconds by a Mannequin S Plaid.
1 / 4-mile is the same as 402.336 meters or four hundred and forty yards subsequently the stretch is also called the 440-yard sprint. The 1/4-mile drag racing is a yardstick used to measure a automobile’s acceleration and velocity efficiency on a dragstrip straight-line observe. With the introduction of electrical vehicles, the drag racing scene is shortly favoring the brand new expertise.
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As we will see within the above X (Twitter) submit, the record-breaking Tesla Mannequin S Plaid on this quarter-mile run was stripped out of the additional weight. Its seats and something contained in the cabin counted as pointless in the course of the race have been eliminated. The automobile was geared up with particular drag radial tires on the rear wheels for elevated efficiency.
Nevertheless, no adjustments have been made to the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid’s inventory OEM battery pack, motors, wiring system, and digital programs to additional cut back weight.
Tesla launched the Mannequin S Plaid in 2021 — the corporate’s flagship efficiency and luxurious electrical automobile. Since its deliveries started in mid-2021, the automobile began making waves on the dragstrip. How good wouldn’t it be with out flexing its 1,020 hp of energy?
Tesla has fine-tuned the battery pack of the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid in a means that even after 40 quarter-mile runs and solely 20% battery remaining, the automobile nonetheless gave an underneath 10-second 1/4-mile run in excessive testing.
In a earlier drag racing problem, the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid misplaced to the Rimac Nevera electrical hypercar. One of the best time of Mannequin S Plaid out of three makes an attempt was 9.272 s @152.68 mph and Rimac Nevera did its finest in 8.655 s @166.66 mph.
Curiously, the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid competing in opposition to the 1,914 hp Rimac Nevera was totally in inventory situation and no weights have been eliminated. Within the newest check, the Plaid Mannequin S did even higher than the Rimac Nevera with 8.59 s @162.33 mph (0.065 seconds faster than the Nevera).
Rimac Nevera’s finest 1/4-mile time is 8.58s which is simply 0.01s higher than what the Mannequin S Plaid has finished within the newest try (watch beneath). Pininfarina Battista nonetheless holds the world report for manufacturing vehicles at 8.55s in a quarter-mile (0.04s sooner than the Mannequin S Plaid).
This places Mannequin S Plaid within the third place within the record of quarter-mile world information for manufacturing vehicles. However with very restricted manufacturing vehicles just like the Pininfarina Battista and Rimac Nevera aren’t true manufacturing vehicles, whereas the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid is a real mass manufacturing automobile simply out there worldwide.
Video: Tesla Mannequin S Plaid units new quarter-mile and 0-60 mph information on the Sonoma Raceway, California.
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Featured picture: Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.
Observe: This text was printed earlier at Tesla Oracle. Writer: Iqtidar Ali.
