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Tesla finally held the long-awaited, and once rescheduled, "delivery event" for its ultra-fast Model S Plaid at its factory in Fremont, California. The electric vehicle company will begin with 25 deliveries on Friday evening, expanding to several hundred cars per week and a thousand cars per week in the next quarter, CEO Elon Musk said at the event. There were no huge surprises with the newest iteration of the Model S, which features a new battery pack design, an improved heat pump, carbon over-wrapped rotors on the motors and a new record for drag coefficient of 0.208, a figure th...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the Model S doesn''''t need more power. Click to know why.

These days it’s all going to be about the brand-new, much more expensive Tesla Model S Plaid. And the range-topper comes at the right moment because the traditional car-making world finally starts to catch up. Including in long-distance races that would see an Audi RS e-tron GT pitted against the Tesla Model S Long Range from the Scottish Highlands to the fashionable and traffic-riddled London, UK, it seems.

Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to the first customers this month. Musk's reason: Plaid is so good that another variant isn't needed. "Model S goes to Plaid speed this week," Musk tweeted on Sunday.

Tesla vehicles use a range of sensors including radar to support its advanced driver assistance systems – Autopilot and Full-Self Driving – as well as certain active safety features.