If we go to the specifications of the Tesla Model S Plaid, we can see that its official top speed is 281 km/h. But is this limitation real or fictional? The engineering team cleared our doubts.
Guillaume Andre decided to answer the question when he got behind the wheel of a white Tesla Model S Plaid at Trois-Rivières Airport (Canada). To test this, he pressed the accelerator pedal until the Tesla accelerated to a top speed of 348 km/h. Maximum of this car.
André is the CEO of Ingenext, a Quebec-based company that sells auto parts, kits and modules to help unlock software-locked features on Tesla vehicles. There is a lot of history of mechanics and Tesla.
Therefore, they are experts in car hacking to remove speed limits. And it seems that without them the car can really accelerate. The story happened last Thursday and was covered by Electrek.
André and his team closed the Trois-Rivières airport in order to conduct an experiment. On site there was a track about 3 km long, perfect for the test. Has the car been modified in addition to breaking the speed limit? Yes, but only slightly.
Ingenext’s Model S Plaid consisted of a production car fitted with larger Mountainpass Performance brakes and higher performance tires.. These edits were made primarily for safety reasons (at high speed tires can burst).
André had to travel 2 km to reach a top speed of 348 km/h. Braking, on the other hand, was a different story, as it took the executive the entire length of the track to come to a complete stop, even with the help of dedicated brakes.
In the video made by Electrek, we hear the sound of a car accelerating, which can be compared to the sound of a jet aircraft runway. Also, on the dashboard of a car, the color of the speedometer changes from white to red as the speed of the car increases.
Source: Computer Hoy
