The 30-50 and 50-70 are very useful…if you’ve read up Sakimano, for automatics they mash the gas, which in the S6 would trip the kickdown, so it is in a low gear. The Tesla can outroll ANYTHING in these tests. It’s retarded. When you drive one, the feeling is unlike anything I’ve driven. On the highway, that is priceless. You want to squirt into that spot? You’re there. Passing maneuvers around trucks, silver RS4s on the QEW, whatever, is suddenly trivial.
http://www.dragtimes.com/blog/tesla-model-s-performance-sets-world-record-for-the-quickest-production-electric-car
The Tesla Model S Performance ended up running a best time of 12.371 @ 110.84 MPH with 0-60 MPH coming up in just 3.9 seconds. The National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) was on site running their Winter EV Nationals and verified the Tesla runs to have set a new world record for the quickest production electric vehicle in the 1/4 mile.
We started out with a full charge on the Tesla which indicated a range of 314 miles, after a 78 mile trip to Palm Beach International Raceway at 70 MPH the Tesla showed a range of 205 miles left. We made a few passes in the car shortly after arriving and the car was amazingly consistent running two back to back 12.678 passes @ 108 MPH. We then drove the car over to the RV parking area at the track and plugged into their 240v 40AMP charging station.
After 3 hours the car was fully charged and we made another pass running 12.371 @ 110.84 MPH which was backed up by a few 12.4x passes. We’re not sure if the increase in performance is due a full battery or having the car cooled down, comments from electron buffs on this?
Our test car was equipped with the 21″ wheel and tire package which weigh more than the standard 19″ wheels. We’re going to try and get our hands on some of the 19″ wheels to do some more testing to see what kind of performance gain they might have. We also put the Model S on the scales where it weighed in at 4,690 pounds.
http://www.dragtimes.com/blog/tesla-model-s-drag-racing-energy-usage-and-cost
The state of charge for the Tesla’s battery at the beginning of the test was about 82% full showing 253 miles of ideal range . We reset the trip computer and set regenerative braking to it’s max setting before the run so we could monitor the Tesla’s energy usage as well as the regenerative braking to determine an approximate net energy usage during the 1/4 mile run.
After coming to a complete stop and turning off traction control we launched the Model S and ran the 1/4 mile under full throttle. We held down the power just past the 1/4 mile hitting 114 MPH and then let off the accelerator allowing the regenerative braking to bring the car down to almost a complete stop without touching the actual brakes.
As you can see in the video below the Tesla’s total energy consumption was 1.1 kWh at 114 MPH and after the car slowed down using the regenerative braking .6 kWh was put back into the battery. This results in a net energy usage of .5 kWh for the 1/4 mile pass. Pretty amazing that the car can recover just over half of energy used and put it back into the battery using it’s regenerative braking.
Using the Tesla’s 85 kWh battery specification we divided 85 kWh by .5 kWh and came up with an estimated 170 all out races before needing to charge back up. Using our electricity rates here in South Florida @ ~12 cents per kWh from FPL, each race costs just 6 cents!
