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Posted on 12/18/2020 7:59:33 PM PST by xp38
Call up Lord Helmet and Colonel Sanders, because Tesla's gone Plaid. Not one to go down without a fight, the new 2022 Tesla Model S Plaid aims to take on the 2021 Lucid Air Dream Edition and its 1,080 hp electric powertrain.
With more than 1,100 horses produced from three electric motors (two at one axle and one more at the other), Tesla promises the most powerful iteration of its flagship sedan will hit 60 mph in less than two seconds and top out at 200 mph. The Air Dream Edition, meanwhile, sprints to 60 mph in less than 2.5 seconds, per Lucid.
2022 Tesla Model S Plaid: Liquid Schwartz Or Big Battery Pack?
Going Plaid also nets a notable increase in driving range for the Model S. While the entry-level Model S Long Range Plus currently manages 402 miles on a full charge, per the Environmental Protection Agency, the Plaid will reportedly top 520 miles. How? Likely from a battery with notably more energy capacity than the 100-kWh pack employed by lesser variants of the electric luxury sedan.We'd guess the Plaid's pack will match or exceed the energy capacity of the Air's 113-kWh unit, which Lucid estimates will afford its sedan 517 miles of range (we saw 490 miles during a demonstration ride along). Then again, there's always the chance Elon Musk got his hands on some Liquid Schwartz, too.
2022 Tesla Model S Plaid: The Price Of Going Plaid
The extra grunt of the Model S Plaid comes at a cost; Tesla will charge $142,690 for the tri-motor model. While that's more than $25,000 less than what Lucid plans to price the Air Dream Edition at, it's still a whopping $65,000 more than the entry-level Model S Long Range Plus.
What visually separates the Plaid from other Model S trims remains a bit of a mystery. Tesla's configurator makes it appear as though the Plaid will look almost identical to its inferior kin. That said, a video of a prototype Model S Plaid that Tesla posted on its social media channels shows wider fenders, a sizable rear spoiler, and a steering wheel cribbed from the Model 3 and Model Y. We hope the production model more or less mirrors the vehicle in the video as opposed to the one on the configurator.
Regardless, we expect to know more about the Plaid's specifics closer to its arrival in late 2021.
0 to 60 in under two seconds. WOW!
So we are supposed to kill off all internal combustion engines and go ultra-green all-electric cars, but put 1,000 horsepower under the hood?
F=MA has not been repealed — those 2 second sprints to 60 still suck up a lot of energy.
If the greens were really green, EVs would have 15 hp motors which is about what it takes to push a streamlined car down the road at 60.
Instead they, like all libs, are huge hypocrites.
It’s not mentioned in this article but the Tesla website claims it will do 9 second quarter miles. That’s Dodge Demon territory. Sub 2 second 0 to 60 is also in the realm of F1 cars.
Imagine the ozone generation, and the extreme magnetic emf fields created inside
How many rechargeable AA batteries does this model require?
I was just about to say that I can’t even imagine what that feels like, when I suddenly remembered that on one trip I accelerated even faster than that. I just googled up the specs and found out that I was accelerated from 0 to 150 mph in 3 seconds. Try to guess what the heck I was doing!
7104 18650 batteries for model s, more for this
Problem Elon isn’t a lib
Sure we might think he is, and he does say stupid stuff here and there, but honestly, I don’t really know where on the political spectrum he falls, and maybe it isn’t our business. But he certainly is a capitalist that loves to invest in businesses (he started 2 dozen companies already) none of them complete though.....
Last time I will loan you my Subaru Outback!
Taking a run on the 1/8th mile strip in Kennedale (Texas y'all)?
What was your 60' time?
Haha! It was a catapult take off from an aircraft carrier in a Grumman C-2 Greyhound. One website says that it accelerates to 150 mph in 3 seconds. Another says that catapulted fighter jets get to 60 in .79 seconds:
It was one of the most intense feelings of my life. The most memorable part of it was the fact that the acceleration was (or at least felt) perfectly constant. It did not feel like we were suddenly jerked from a standstill. If felt like a giant began to pull us and pulled firmly but oddly gently for a few seconds and then let us go.
Saw a vid of a sedan being catapulted off a carrier.
Post it! That would be awesome.
I saw that one, too! Been awhile, though.
For a golf cart? Give me one of these instead:
Being catapulted off of an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet (F-4, F-14, F-18)?
Being catapulted off the USS Abraham Lincoln in an F-18?
Turn on all the lights, heater
full blast, radio cranked, phone
plugged in, heated seats turned
on with -30F outside air temps @
80 mph and get back to me on a
range....
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