2021 Tesla Model S

Beaver Direct Certified | 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid | 1,020 Horsepower, 0–60 in Under 2 Seconds | $1,395 Platinum Warranty Included 47,563 Miles | Solid Black over Black | Tri-Motor AWD | Stock #PJ440963 1,020 horsepower. Zero to sixty in 1.99 seconds. A quarter mile in 9.23 seconds at 155 mph. Those are the numbers for the Model S Plaid, and they belong to a four-door sedan with a trunk, a frunk, a back seat you can put car seats in, and enough room to take four adults to dinner. When it arrived it was quicker to sixty than essentially any production car you could buy at any price — supercars included, several of them costing three and four times as much. It is still, five years on, one of the quickest vehicles ever sold to the public. And it is sitting on our lot in Cumming. About the name, because people ask. Tesla had already used "Ludicrous" for its previous quickest mode — a joke lifted from Spaceballs. In that film, the only thing faster than ludicrous speed is when the ship goes plaid. So when Tesla built something quicker than Ludicrous, there was exactly one thing it could be called. The name is a punchline. The car absolutely is not. Three motors, and the layout is the clever part. The Plaid uses tri-motor all-wheel drive: one motor at the front, and two independent motors at the rear — one for each rear wheel. Because each rear wheel is driven by its own motor, the car can send different amounts of power to the left and right sides thousands of times a second, which is torque vectoring in its purest form. That is what keeps 1,020 horsepower from simply lighting up the tires, and it is why the thing corners far better than a sedan of this size has any business doing. Top speed reaches 200 mph with the appropriate high-performance tire setup. It also goes a very long way on a charge. Tesla rated the Plaid at up to 390 miles of range on the 19-i