Tesla Model S Plaid ‘delivery event’ coming next month — what you need to know

Tesla Model South Plaid 'delivery event' coming next month — what you lot need to know

(Image credit: Tesla)

Tesla and Elon Musk have been teasing the Tesla Model S Plaid for a few years, and now we know when we're actually going to come across the car in activeness.

Elon Musk simply confirmed (via Twitter, naturally) that Tesla will host a "delivery event" for the Model S Plaid on June 3. It'due south just in time for the company'southward current August/September delivery estimate.

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Tesla Model Due south Plaid delivery eventJune 3 at our California factoryFastest production car ever0 to 60mph in under 2 secsMay 20, 2021

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The Tesla Model S Plaid is a pretty large bargain, with Tesla promising that the auto is the "quickest accelerating product car today." It'due south supposed to go from 0-60mph in just 1.99 seconds (with first-foot rollout subtracted), and can travel ¼ of a mile in ix.23 seconds. It also has a summit speed of 200mph, which Tesla called "beyond ludicrous".

Unfortunately the 390 mile range is nonetheless less than the Long Range Model Due south, which can exercise upward to 412 miles on a unmarried charge. If you want to do better than that you'll take to wait until mid-2022 for Tesla to beginning delivering the Model South Plaid Plus.

Not only can the car manage over 500 miles on a single charge, the Plaid Plus also promises to have faster acceleration than any other production auto ever. That means 0-60mph in less than 1.99 seconds (minus the offset-pes rollout), and ¼ mile in under nine seconds.

Tesla here is beingness slightly deceptive with it'southward 0-60 times. On its website, nether feature details when ordering a Model S, an asterisk is placed next to Plaid and Plaid+ acceleration figures. In drag racing, the initial twelve inches of movement are subtracted from the overall time. So measurement of speed isn't measured at exactly the starting bespeak. It's measured when the car has moved at least a pes. So, if the Model Southward Plaid is able to accelerate to six miles-per-60 minutes in that single pes, then really you're not measuring a 0-lx time, but instead a six-sixty fourth dimension. YouTube channel Engineering Explained also has a detailed video breaking this all downwards.

Screengrab from Tesla website about Model S Plaid and Plaid+ acceleration — (Image credit: Tesla)

No doubt Tesla and Musk will have enough to say about both cars, plus some demonstrations of what people tin can expect from the standard Model S Plaid. Hopefully that will likewise ostend whether or not the machine will have a retractable spoiler, similar the epitome spotted at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

Let's just hope the automobile isn't beingness delayed in one case again. Tesla has struggled to fulfil orders of new cars in the by. Luckily for Tesla, the ongoing global chip shortage hasn't affected it as much as other automakers thanks to some quick thinking.

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