4 ms·
> Weight in corners hurts you in terms of acceleration out (which is not a problem for Tesla) and by the turning force required to change the momentum direction
by shartacct 5y ago
> Weight in corners hurts you in terms of acceleration out (which is not a problem for Tesla) and by the turning force required to change the momentum direction.
The acceleration is drastically degraded once the battery is hot.
> The result is 5000lb which breaks the four-door nurburgring record.
They broke the record for production EVs, not for all four door cars. In a test that was also officiated by Tesla themselves, so not very credible. In 2017 a Civic type R could do a faster lap time than Plaid does in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSjItQneNM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSjItQneNM&feature=youtu.be
- elif 5y agoCheck the times they got 7:30 bone stock beating the 7:40 of heavily modified and weight reduced Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R You might be confusing 4-door with 4WD? Also yes performance is lower when the battery isn't topped up, but "degraded" is a bit dramatic. It's less significant than, say, tire-wear. In formula E practice sessions they gradually adjust how much charge is available, only enabling 250kW at the end of the session. In NY P1 this year, the best time on "low power" was 1m08.988s, and the best time on full power was 1'08.472 Half of the grid ended below 'the low power' fast lap
- shartacct 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times#Production/street-legal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords... Plaid gets beat by unmodified ICEs that are 1/5th the price.
- elif 5y agoAnd which of these 2 DOOR vehicles are you claiming is cheaper than plaid, let alone 1/5?
- shartacct 5y agoEvery corvette and camaro on that list, for starters. There's several 4 door cars faster than plaid on there too, not sure why you'd bother trying to move that goalpost.
- elif 5y agoCan you please name a faster 4 door time? Still haven't seen one... and i believe you may have misread the times. and my goalposts haven't move... my original comment said fastest 4 door time.
- shartacct 5y agoThere's at least 5 that I can see from a quick glance of the wikipedia list: * Audi RS3 (7:35.522) * Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT (7:33.95, also an SUV) * Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio (7:32) * Porsche Panamera Turbo (7:29.81) * Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé 63 S 4MATIC+ (7:25.41) It's actually hilarious to me that you would rather double down and act like a tantruming toddler instead of taking 1 minute to read the list like I did. You're a loser clamoring to defend Tesla with any excuse possible, to the point of desperately lying. I would also wager that if it was actually tested independently the performance would not hold up to what Tesla claims, and that the M5 below it would probably exceed it's time. We already know Tesla lied egregiously about the 0-60 time as no independent test has managed to get below 2.27s without a glued surface and drag slicks. It's also extremely embarassing that the S Plaid cannot beat the times of the Camaro, C6, C7 and C8 corvettes, and R35 GTR. These cars all were less than $80k USD new, while an S Plaid is $148k USD.
- elif 5y agoI wonder what time the $124,000** tesla.com/models plaid would set if it had an 18 liter battery or what those vehicles would do on a full tank or with the plaid's road tires. I guess we'll find out when the roadster tries later this year. enjoy your troll accounts until then. PS You attributed a time as the Panamera turbo which was actually the Panamera Turbo S, a hybrid :P
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- elif 5y agoYou linked a 7:43 to prove it's faster than 7:30?