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Validation Prototypes (VPs)

Chillout

Member
Jun 30, 2014
307
7
the Netherlands
Interesting...

It felt like VP31 was quicker than it should have been as well.

I heard rumors that some Roadsters are known as "mutants" because they make more power than advertised.

The previous owner of EU VIN 0447 (non sport!) did an official 0-100km/h measurement once, and he did it in 3.2s. So I guess that statement is true.
Note: according to the dutch car registry, the car was registered as having 50hp... rrrrright
 

dpeilow

Moderator
May 23, 2008
9,151
888
Winchester, UK
Down at the local SC today and I bumped into an old flame ;)

So pleased to see VP12 still around and waiting to be restored.

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Feb 5, 2015
204
288
Neusatdt/W., Germany
In my opinion a different motor (stronger) motor would not directly lead to more power on the wheels. Actually it has - if I remember right - a steady performance of 47kW and a asynchronous electrical motor can be overloaded a lot when the heat is transferred away.
Going from 3.9 down to 3.2 seconds in acceleration is a lot and I was once told that for a "sport" conversion the two circuit boards in the front had to be changed (also there is a sport only PEM as a "universal" PEM for the 2.X). It comes down to the inverter technic and how it is "driven" by the software side; also the 400V input of the PEM and the max of the IGBTs could be a bottle neck.
Getting "more" can be validated quite well with the Boost Upgrade via software update for some of the Model 3...
 

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