{"id":595359,"date":"2023-01-08T05:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/heres-why-the-tesla-model-s-plaid-is-worth-its-over-135000-price-tag\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T05:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:59","slug":"heres-why-the-tesla-model-s-plaid-is-worth-its-over-135000-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/heres-why-the-tesla-model-s-plaid-is-worth-its-over-135000-price-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why The Tesla Model S Plaid Is Worth Its Over $135,000 Price Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EVs don’t sit on the lower end of the price bracket in the car industry. Unless it’s a Chevy Bolt<\/a>, most EVs are more expensive than gasoline-equivalent vehicles by a significant margin. When you start looking at the top end of the spectrum, the prices can seem astronomical: For example, a Rivian R1S<\/a> with all the bells, whistles, and four motors starts at $92,000. A Lucid Air Pure<\/a>, the lowest base trim, “only” has 480 horsepower and starts at $87,400.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tesla’s offerings aren’t exactly bargain basement either. The least-expensive Model 3<\/a> is a not-unreasonable $40,390, but that’s still not a drop in the bucket for the average consumer. The falcon-winged Model X Plaid<\/a> tops out at $130,590. For that price, you get a car that can go from 0-60 miles per hour in a scant 2.5 seconds, and generates 1,020 horsepower from its three motors. Not to be outdone, the Tesla Model S Plaid<\/a> sports a price tag of an eye watering $135,990 to buy it outright, without any incentives or discounts. Despite being well into six-figure territory, the Model S Plaid might be worth the price of admission for those looking for the best performance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Plaid’s speed justifies the price<\/h2>\n
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It’s an understatement to say that Tesla is a controversial company \u2014 a trait that tends to follow its CEO’s business ventures. Elon Musk’s Twitter hijinks<\/a> don’t help matters much, and neither do the seemingly endless delays on the Cybertruck<\/a>. That being said, one thing is for certain: The Tesla Model S Plaid is ridiculously fast. No number of embarrassing headlines or wacky statements from the company or its founder can change the outrageous performance figures of the Plaid model.<\/p>\n

According to Tesla<\/a>, the Model S Plaid will top out at 200 miles per hour, but cars have been breaking 200 mph for decades<\/a>, so that’s not too impressive. Where the Tesla really shines is pure acceleration. From a dead stop, the 1,020 horsepower trimotor Tesla will accelerate to 60 miles per hour in 2.1 seconds, according to real world testing by Hagerty.<\/a> It only loses out to the $249,000 Lucid Air Sapphire<\/a> by a hair. A 0-60 time of 2.1 seconds means that the Plaid officially beats out just about every production car that has ever existed. That includes every Bugatti, Hellcat variation<\/a>, everything Ferrari has ever come up with, and the entirety of Lamborghini’s existence. The $135,000-plus price doesn’t seem too bad in comparison to the multimillion-dollar supercars the Plaid can melt in a drag race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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EVs don’t sit on the lower end of the price bracket in the car industry. Unless it’s a Chevy Bolt, most EVs are more expensive than gasoline-equivalent vehicles by a significant margin. When you start looking at the top end of the spectrum, the prices can seem astronomical: For example, a Rivian R1S with all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,46,2586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-heres","category-technology","category-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}