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prepares itself to accelerate quickly. All part of what Tesla calls Drag Strip Mode, here’s what’s going on under the hood.
To start, the Model S gets the cooling fans running. That, Mayfield explains, is to lower the temperature of the drive units as much as possible because they make the most power when they’re the coolest.Somewhat counterintuitively, at the same time, the batteries are being warmed up. The temperature is only being raised a little bit, says Mayfield, and only in order to get them into their optimal temperature range..
“What this does is it pre-loads the car low, and it improves front axle traction so that when you launch, instead of the front of the car coming up, and you lose traction off the front wheels, it actually holds the front of the car down as you accelerate, and gives you better grip all the way through the 0-60,” says Mayfield.
That, in addition to the enormous amount of power being directed to the ground through the Model S Plaid’s four wheels – three
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