Recognized as the pioneer company of the electric car industry, Tesla not only proves to drivers that electric cars can perform as well (or even higher) than fossil fuel vehicles, but also show that it can be offered at an affordable price.
Model S Plaid, which will be Tesla’s new supercar, takes a slightly different line in this regard. Model S Plaid, which is a real performance monster, does not have an accessible price tag in addition. Still, the vehicle will manage to be ‘cheap’ than its fossil fuel competitors with similar performance when it is officially launched.
According to Tesla’s statements, the Model S Plaid will accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in 1.99 seconds and will complete the 400 meters in 9.2 seconds and will be recorded as the fastest car to enter mass production. So, how right is Tesla in the data he presented? The first independent tests of the Tesla Model S Plaid by MotorTrend show that the Model S Plaid is even faster than Tesla announced; if you have your own private track…
According to the statements made by MotorTrend, Tesla only allowed the Model S Plaid to be tested on the Famoso Racetrack, on a ground specially prepared for the take-off test with VHT. Although MotorTrend didn’t like these limitations at first, it did the test later and managed to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 1.98 seconds and cover the distance of 400 meters in 9.25 seconds.
However, the fact that the said test took place under special conditions did not appeal to MotorTrend, and the test was carried out once on a track that was not specially prepared. The good news is that; Although the Model S Plaid could not reach the takeoff time of 1.99 seconds announced by Tesla on a normal surface, it proved its performance by accelerating from 0-100 km / h in 2.07 seconds. The 400 meters time of the vehicle on the ‘normal’ track was 9.34 seconds.
Although Tesla Model S Plaid lags behind the data announced by Tesla on the normal track, it manages to break the world’s fastest mass production car records one by one with its results. The closest competitor of the Model S Plaid, which threatens these records, will be the Rimac Nevera, but since the car in question will be a limited production car of $ 2 million, the ‘series production car’ records will remain with the Model S Plaid, which has a price of 130,000 dollars.
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