It looks to be about the same, at least up to 140 mph. Pretty impressive also. Agreed on the carbon-wrapped rotors, as most people don't know what they are looking at, or what they do, so this may be done to avoid confusion.
Ha ha! How you think I got dat Q2 delivery?
You know, it could be actually like that irl. The main purpose of the carbon-wrapped rotors are to maintain really high efficiency at high rpm, and deliver said rpm. It could be that after maybe 150 or so, it would start to taper off. Even so, it's damn impressive for a PM motor to be doing this.
Lol I know just want to spice up the chat we all love each other impressive nevertheless.
There are signs of the flat curve, as the only way an EV with 670 hp is doing 130 mph in the trap speed is with such a curve. Additionally, if you look on the bottom of the gauge cluster in that LR 1/4 mile video, you can see that the power bar doesn't move at all. It just goes to max output and stays there.
That’s likely because people are comparing 1/4 mile times of cars based on their peak HP and peak torque values not understanding you integrate all the area under the curve where Tesla has more of.
Well not necessarily. With really high efficiency (@TorqueMonster, @omarsultan, and myself calculated around 93%), it's actually putting down almost all 1,020 motor shaft hp at the wheels. There are a lot less losses between motor and wheel than in a traditional ICE. This is why you see many people thinking it's underrated, and that it has to have 1,200 hp. It actually is putting down exactly what Tesla says it does(maybe like a tad more), just in an Earth-shatteringly efficient manner.
I'm going to preface this next comment acknowledging that the Plaid is amazing, and the LR is not close to its performance. Hopefully that will shut up the Plaid defenders, because this is aimed at Tesla's marketing department, and what I suspect is deceptive manipulation of true physical limitations between the two.
As I've said, the real value of the carbon sleeves are the minute interference with the EM field, and super high rpms, along with very low rotational mass due to the lightweight carbon. Regarding marketing, I think it would be cool to see the power curve of the LR as well, but they don't even have the Plaid power curve on the website. It was shown at the Plaid delivery event, which was for the Model S Plaid, not the Model S refresh in general. If it was, I'm sure they would've talked about it.
Is that Jester dude STILL whining and complaining and arguing that possibly (likely not), maybe (maybe not), somehow (definitely not), someway (no way), probably (probably not)…that the dual motor MS LR is just as powerful, quick and just as good or could be made to be just as powerful, quick and just as good as the tri-motor (carbon sleeved) MS Plaid?
. Ugh, that guy should give it up already!!!
And these are the people who get MY car, my exact build before me?!?!?! LOL!!A neighbor of ours, a couple in their 50's, bought a Plaid today. White on white with CF interior. Normally, I am not very chatty with them but I went up to their driveway to inquire. I said Congrats, you have the fastest production car in the world. To which, the lady (shocked) replied "really??? i had no idea about that. Sure, it feels fast and had no clue in the damn world its the fastest". Then she turned to her husband and said "did you hear what he just said?". The husband was equally shocked. Both of them had no clue. Apparently, they wanted a Tesla for the "dog mode" and really like how the Model S looks from outside.
I thought about asking them "how about we trade since you don't care about the performance" but then I quickly realized that that was futile since I had just revealed what their vehicle was capable of. In my mind, I did a massive double facepalm and left the scene.
sorry. but you can't use your eyes? at least has blind spot detection now though. but I feel like if you're in reverse you should be paying attention.
This is just a guess, but the cabin overheat protection may have something to do with all of the screens that have gone bad. I have a 2013 with only 23k miles, and both screens have been replaced. Or maybe it was just a age issue since my car hasn't been parked in the sun that often.
