Model S Plaid just hit 216mph.

[WilliamG]

Of course this was some software hack or uncork but even so… Wow.

 

[gracarter]

Wow, and it wasn’t limited to that either they just ran out of room. Interested to hear more about this

 

[xEvoLveDx]

Tesla Model S Plaid breaks 200 mph top speed for the first time

A Tesla Model S Plaid that has been hacked to remove software limitations has reached a top speed of over 200 mph (and then some).

electrek.co

 

[WilliamG]

Wow, and it wasn’t limited to that either they just ran out of room. Interested to hear more about this

Yeah, I wonder what the “true” top speed is. Incredible for these single-gear motors.

 

[DOOLMTR]

Holy smokes it's time to mount a parachute for these types of tests.

 

[Olle]

Very impressive! 200 looked like a stretch given how long it took for the unlock and the seemingly lame tire excuse on the order page.

Watching the vid we see that they miss the aero covers, and they ran out if road. so the car is probably even faster than 216 mph.

 

[Olle]

Very impressive! 200 looked like a stretch given how long it took for the unlock and the seemingly lame tire excuse on the order page.

Watching the vid we see that they miss the aero covers, and they ran out if road. so the car is probably even faster than 216 mph.

Edit. 216 mph in 1st. Lol. Makes Porsche’s 2 speed gearbox look even more like a joke than when Taycan came out.

 

[unlock]

Seriously impressive. As some have mentioned, had there been more road....

Now I wonder what the top speed would be for the M3P and MYP without a limiter...

 

[Mash]

Seriously impressive. As some have mentioned, had there been more road....

Now I wonder what the top speed would be for the M3P and MYP without a limiter...

M3P legitimately runs out of breath at the top.

 

[WilliamG]

M3P legitimately runs out of breath at the top.

Does it ever. It’s an absolute dog above 70mph. I mean heck, it takes nearly 30 seconds to go from 0-150…!

 

[unlock]

M3P legitimately runs out of breath at the top.

Do you think that's more of a mechanical limitation or the way that it's programmed to gradually fade off before hitting the limit?

 

[Mash]

Do you think that's more of a mechanical limitation or the way that it's programmed to gradually fade off before hitting the limit?

It's an older motor design where back EMF is much higher and so it loses more than half of power at the top speed.

 

[Olle]

Do you think that's more of a mechanical limitation or the way that it's programmed to gradually fade off before hitting the limit?

Both. Mechanical in the sense that it only has two motors and thus needs lower gearing to get enough low speed torque. Electro magnetic in the sense that Model 3 has staggered rotor magnets to smoothen the start, which makes it harder for high speed torque. Plaid, having the luxury of three motors to smoothen the ride, has axially straight rows of magnets. Munro has a nice teardown video of it.

 

[mulot30th]

Very inpressive especially accounting for the fact they have not had to modify the batteriy nor the motors nor the gearing not even aero

Just WOW what a car!

Congrats to them they must have spent a ton of hours finding their way around the speed limiter

 

[Olle]

Now that the S is not only one of the best cars overall but also one of the fastest, another argument against EVs has been knocked of the table.

I wonder how many more utility, safety and performance categories it has to destroy before people stop calling it a one trick pony?

 

[Mash]

Now that the S is not only one of the best cars overall but also one of the fastest, another argument against EVs has been knocked of the table.

I wonder how many more utility, safety and performance categories it has to destroy before people stop calling it a one trick pony?

Range, charging speed, number of chargers and price are still not there and for many those things really impact usage more than safety, power, speed and size of fan base. Objectively EV is not mainstream at all just yet.

 

[Olle]

Range, charging speed, number of chargers and price are still not there and for many those things really impact usage more than safety, power, speed and size of fan base. Objectively EV is not mainstream at all just yet.

Price is the only one of those arguments that still makes sense. Norway is an example of this. Financial incentives are biased toward EVs and as a result EVs have 90% market share there.

 

[unlock]

Range, charging speed, number of chargers and price are still not there and for many those things really impact usage more than safety, power, speed and size of fan base. Objectively EV is not mainstream at all just yet.

The EV haters also forget to check the Nurburging time that the Plaid can dial in.

 

[buckets0fun]

The EV haters also forget to check the Nurburging time that the Plaid can dial in.

Plaid+

 

[WilliamG]

Plaid+

The official time of 7:35 was a regular Plaid.