Tesla Mannequin S Plaid units a brand new file in a quarter-mile drag racing try which places it among the many listing of high world data.
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 car didn’t simply make a brand new quarter-mile file, it additionally accelerated from 0-60 seconds in simply 1.88 seconds. That is 0.11 seconds sooner than one of the best 0-60 mph file 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 automotive’s acceleration and velocity efficiency on a dragstrip straight-line observe. With the introduction of electrical automobiles, the drag racing scene is rapidly 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 automotive was geared up with particular drag radial tires on the rear wheels for elevated efficiency.
Nonetheless, no modifications have been made to the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid’s inventory OEM battery pack, motors, wiring system, and digital techniques to additional scale back weight.
Tesla launched the Mannequin S Plaid in 2021 — the corporate’s flagship efficiency and luxurious electrical car. Since its deliveries started in mid-2021, the automotive 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 manner that even after 40 quarter-mile runs and solely 20% battery remaining, the automotive 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. The very best time of Mannequin S Plaid out of three makes an attempt was 9.272 s @152.68 mph and Rimac Nevera did its greatest in 8.655 s @166.66 mph.
Apparently, the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid competing in opposition to the 1,914 hp Rimac Nevera was solely 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 greatest 1/4-mile time is 8.58s which is simply 0.01s higher than what the Mannequin S Plaid has carried out within the newest try (watch beneath). Pininfarina Battista nonetheless holds the world file for manufacturing automobiles 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 listing of quarter-mile world data for manufacturing automobiles. However with very restricted manufacturing automobiles just like the Pininfarina Battista and Rimac Nevera aren’t true manufacturing automobiles, whereas the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid is a real mass manufacturing automotive simply accessible worldwide.
Video: Tesla Mannequin S Plaid units new quarter-mile and 0-60 mph data on the Sonoma Raceway, California.
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Featured picture: Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.
Be aware: This text was revealed earlier at Tesla Oracle. Creator: Iqtidar Ali.
