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Modified Model S Plaid reaches 348 km/h

For electric vehicle manufacturers, the 0-100 km/h time of less than two seconds remains an important milestone, but top speed numbers are also important for marketing purposes. Tesla has been constantly improving the dynamic performance of its products, but the recent speed record of 348 km/h was set with the intervention of a third-party company.

Electrek explains that the Canadian company Ingenext, which specializes in unlocking solutions for certain capabilities of Tesla electric vehicles, managed this week to accelerate a modified Model S Plaid to 348 km/h, which is a new speed record for this electric vehicle. In the regular version, due to the use of Track Mode “racing”, Tesla managed to raise the maximum speed of the Model S Plaid to 282 km/h on its own, although at the time of its market debut the car was limited to a speed no higher. at 262 km/h. In fact, in the run-up to the announcement, Tesla promised that the Model S Plaid version would be able to travel at speeds of up to 322 km/h. While on machines in the normal state, these speeds are not achieved as Tesla programmatically limits them.

According to the source, Ingenext experts found a way to remove the existing blockages, after which they rented a 3 km long airfield for a short period of time to update the record, as the team of experiment participants simply I didn't have enough space on the previous routes. Even under the conditions of the new experiment, the car had to reach its top speed at the 2 km mark and then start to decelerate. Having barely serviced the asphalt segment allocated for the experiment, Ingenext representatives managed to accelerate the car to 348 km/h.

On the electric test car, the diameter of the brakes was increased and the tires were replaced with safer ones for the selected driving mode. It is characteristic that, during the experiment, the Tesla plant's cooling system made a serious noise, as both the electric motors and the traction battery heat up at these speeds. By the way, in the future, Ingenext intends to offer a tested modification to all Tesla Model S Plaid owners for a certain amount.

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