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.
You got it, except it was a Grumman C-2 Greyhound cargo turboprop, which is not quite as exciting but still a pretty unbelievable experience.
Accelerating to 60 mph in 2 seconds does NOT "suck up" more energy than accelerating to 60 mph in 2 HOURS.
Regards,
A quarter horse can do it in 20 seconds for a whole lot less.
I have some of his stock....no way I can afford his car!!!!
It looks like a corolla.....
Imagine car crash at a race track. No fireball but a thousand AA batteries lethally flying at the crowd.
And no one will hear it coming. If you watch the vid embedded in the article of a lap at Laguna Seca it’s remarkably silent except for running over the rumble strips on the edge of corners.
May the Schwartz be with you
falling?
Actually you have to go to the third derivative for this.
Velocity is the first derivative of the change in position over time.
Acceleration is the second derivative, the change in velocity over time.
But if you were to immediately accelerate from zero To maximum velocity (Constant acceleration) It would probably snap your neck.
So the acceleration is actually Changing over time (third derivative) from zero to max acceleration.
I once had to implement a pretty cool math algorithm for changing the acceleration of a large factory cutting table.
If you didn’t ramp-up the acceleration slowly it would jolt the machine back and forth like crazy.
Thus endeth the math lesson for today that you thought you would never use from high school and college.
I did the landing, but not the take off. This article describes both.
https://theaviationist.com/2009/10/27/flying-to-from-an-aircraft-carrier-with-a-c-2-greyhound/
What you say is all correct...until your last statement “the biggest factor in mileage is how much you brake - every time you brake you’re 100% losing all that momentum you spent so much fuel to acquire.” While that is correct for internal combustion engines without energy storage, it isn’t true for EVs.
Tesla (and other EV makers) use regenerative braking where braking converts a lot of the kinetic energy to potential energy stored in the battery. That is the huge advantage of EVs, especially city buses, where it is constant start/stop all day long. It’s not much of an advantage for EVs outside towns and cities where you go long distances without braking.
It was pretty cool watching the math implemented in real life.
We even had to measure and take into consideration the natural frequency of various components.
OK so using that taxonomy, there was hardly any snap. The feeling of pressure due to acceleration was completely constant.
My original statement was based solely on Physics - without any consideration of possible differences between various types of engines, etc.
From the point of view of Physics, the amount of energy needed to accelerate a mass (e.g., a metal slug floating through space) to a given velocity is independent of the amount of time needed to achieve that final velocity.
Regards,
You don’t need a race track.
Happens on the street.
Houses catching on fire from the flying exploding batteries.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/oregon-tesla-crash-battery-cells-flying-homes
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