MarcG
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1/4-mile on public roads with only one hand on the yoke?!Standard Plaid mode [ no drag strip mode , no cheetah launch control]
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1/4-mile on public roads with only one hand on the yoke?!Standard Plaid mode [ no drag strip mode , no cheetah launch control]
Its private road , I'm a crazy mofo LOL . I've been over 200mph with 1 hand on the steering in my previous car LOL1/4-mile on public roads with only one hand on the yoke?!
Here you go! This is with 21" Twin Turbine wheels though.My apologies, I tried doing a search on this thread, but failed. Can someone point me to some LR times? I saw one in the first page or two, and those were just ok. I’m looking for some bragging rights
Yep waiting on my brake upgrade before I can track the beast!Also don’t track the car until you have upgraded brakes. Anyone doing high speed runs be careful out there.
RIP plaid
@speedy_jeff on Instagram: "The 2021 Tesla Plaid is fast as f**k. It can lap a track respectfully … for two to three laps. After that be prepared for massive brake failure. Granted it’s a heavy car and not intended to be a track car. But three and q
8,417 likes, 610 comments - speedy_jeff on October 1, 2021: "The 2021 Tesla Plaid is fast as f**k. It can lap a track respectfully … for two to three laps. After that be prepared for massive brake..."www.instagram.com
I did a [email protected] MPHMy apologies, I tried doing a search on this thread, but failed. Can someone point me to some LR times? I saw one in the first page or two, and those were just ok. I’m looking for some bragging rights
Thats not a Hurracan its a SV. YouTube celebrities should now that no?ALRIGHT so another video from this thread's favorite YTers! Plaid demolition as you'd expect:
Yup. It pulls a horrific 60ft of like 1.9, but then goes on to do a 130 trap. Most owners have commented that it feels limited up to around 30 mph. This was likely done by Tesla so they can: 1) Sell an acceleration boost later, and 2) have less issues selling the Plaid to people who don't look past the 0-60 time, and who wouldn't know the difference beyond that point.Is Tesla deliberately sandbagging the Model S Long Range? It seems to be very strong up top (130mph trap speeds) but weaker down low (can only manage high 10's from all I've seen).
Another good video from Engineering Perspective that looks at the performance difference between the 19s and 21s:
Spoiler:The difference is negligible
Well, to be fair, he was looking at efficiency, but one takeaway there is so much crazy stupid torque, the differences are minimal. That is certainly in line with what I have seen with my Dragy testing. It would be good to figure out the polar moment of inertia differences between the two wheels, as I think that ends up being more relevant to our discussion here.Interesting. He treats the main topic discussed in this thread: rotational mass of the wheels, as a different topic, and seems to assume that the EPA data he finds is the result of (I guess, he doesn’t say explicitly) rolling resistance of the tires and aero affects of the wheels.
I would think that the EPA data is partly influenced by the rotational mass as well. Although perhaps he means the rotational mass has an additional effect on performance, especially on acceleration, and isn’t fully captured by the EPA road load data (which is just steady state power requirements) .