Another factor not mentioned is that manufacturers are required to install tires that have speed ratings that are compatible with the top speed potential of the vehicle, even if you never drive that fast. The Tesla Plaid comes with tires rated for 186+ MPH. You can expect to pay $500 or more per tire.
“The Tesla Plaid comes with tires rated for 186+ MPH. You can expect to pay $500 or more per tire.”
True, and tire shops won’t mount lower-rated tires on the vehicle. But if you carry the rims in you can generally get any reasonable speed category mounted. For example, on my ICE vehicle, down from V to T I think it was.
My 2002 “sports car” had a speed limiter set at 113 mph so they could sell it with lower speed rated tires. Wound it up once on a flat stretch of desert highway and thought I may have blown it up the first time it cut out.