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The entire Tesla community is currently holding its breath for the arrival of the new tri-motor Model S Plaid, and it'd better have superhuman lung capacity because it will continue to do so until the summer, which is when deliveries are expected to begin.
autoevolution 27 Apr 2021, 16:31 UTC · by 20 photos The all-new part isn’t an understatement, partly because this variant of the Model S employs three motors instead of a dual-motor arrangement. Priced at $119,990 including destination and documentation fees, the Plaid is described as “the quickest-accelerating car in production today.” 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) takes only 1.99 seconds, the quarter-mile run is over in 9.23 seconds, and peak output is estimated at 1,020 ponies. In addition to straight-line performance, the Model S Plaid also handles like nobody...
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autoevolution 13 Apr 2021, 19:50 UTC · by The Tesla Model S is like that very athletic kid you never wanted to be paired with during a gym class competition because you knew exactly how it was going to end, and it wasn't good. Just look at the reaction of the Corvette C8 driver: what can you do, "it's a Tesla". 7 photos There are cars out there, either stock or built, that can beat a Model S Performance consistently over the quarter mile, but there aren't that many. To do it, they would need to have either tremendous amount of power, or excellent all-wheel-drive and traction control sy...
The battle of billionaires Musk and Bezos is so hot it's starting to explode - literally Elon Musk's Starship prototype ended a test flight in flames, but how does he compare to Amazon's Jeff Bezos overall? 4 March 2021 • 12:04pm The world watched on Thursday as a rocket designed by Elon Musk, the 49-year-old CEO of Tesla and founder of space transportation company SpaceX, burst into flames. The South African billionaire has been the talk of the internet since January 6th, when he overtook Jeff Bezos, the 57-year-old founder of Amazon, as the richest man in the world. While the explosion mi...