The Tesla P100D: A Breakdown of its Acceleration and Braking Performance

One of the most impressive aspects of the Tesla P100D is its acceleration performance. In the first foot of acceleration, the car was able to reach speeds of 5.9 miles per hour. This may seem like a slow start, but it's actually an incredible feat considering the car's massive size and weight. The fact that it can accelerate all the way up to 5.9 miles per hour in just one foot is a testament to its powerful electric motor.

As we continue to accelerate, the P100D reaches its 0-60 mile per hour mark in an astonishing 2.53 seconds. This number is still really cool and worthy of note. If you include the rollout time, which is essentially the time it takes for the car to get going from a standstill, the 0-60 time drops down to 2.48 seconds. What's even more remarkable is that the P100D can decelerate just as quickly as it accelerates. The stopping distance from 60 to 0 miles per hour is an impressive 2.48 seconds, which is only slightly faster than its acceleration time.

The difference between accelerating and decelerating times is a staggering one-twentieth of a second. This means that the P100D can stop just as quickly as it can accelerate, making it one of the most responsive cars on the market. To put this into perspective, there aren't many other cars out there that can match the P100D's performance.

One of the key factors contributing to the P100D's incredible acceleration and braking performance is its instant torque. As an electric car, it doesn't have a gearshift like a traditional gasoline-powered car. Instead, it gets instant torque from its electric motor, which allows it to accelerate with ease. This also means that the car can deliver all of its power as soon as you put your foot down on the accelerator.

The lack of a gearshift also gives the P100D an advantage when it comes to braking. Without the need for shifting gears, the car can simply release the accelerator and let the regenerative brakes take over. This means that the car can decelerate with ease, making it one of the most responsive cars on the market.

The Tesla P100D also has some impressive performance metrics. It's able to accelerate at an average of 1.0G across the 0-60 range, which is incredibly fast. The braking performance is equally impressive, with an average deceleration rate of 1.1G.

In comparison to its smaller sibling, the P85, the P100D has some notable differences. While both cars are electric vehicles, the P100D is significantly heavier, weighing in at 4891 pounds compared to the P85's 4633 pounds. This difference in weight gives the P85 an advantage when it comes to braking performance.

The P85 also features all-wheel drive, which allows it to deliver power to all four wheels. This system gives the car a slight edge when it comes to traction and stability, particularly on slippery or uneven surfaces. In contrast, the P100D does not have this feature, instead relying on its instant torque and regenerative braking to slow down.

One of the most fascinating things about the Tesla P100D is its theoretical 0-60 time. Based on the grip of a street tire, it's possible to estimate that the car could reach 0-60 in as little as 2.1 seconds. However, this is purely speculative and depends on the specific tires being used.

Theoretical performance estimates are always tricky, but they do give us an idea of just how impressive the Tesla P100D really is. With its instant torque and regenerative braking, it's clear that this car is capable of delivering incredible acceleration and braking performance.

The key to the P100D's performance lies in its tires. Street tire technology has come a long way in recent years, and it's now possible to achieve impressive grip and handling on even the most challenging roads. The Tesla P100D is no exception, with its street-legal tires allowing it to deliver incredible acceleration and braking performance.

The real question then becomes: what would happen if there were more advanced tires available? If there were tires that offered even greater grip and handling, it's possible that the Tesla P100D could see some improvement in its performance. However, at this point, it's hard to say just how much of a difference they would make.

One thing is certain, though: the Tesla P100D is an incredibly impressive car with incredible acceleration and braking performance. Its instant torque and regenerative braking make it one of the most responsive cars on the market, and its street tire technology gives it a unique advantage when it comes to grip and handling.

Overall, the Tesla P100D is a true marvel of modern automotive engineering. Its incredible performance metrics and advanced technology make it one of the most exciting cars to drive on the road today.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome in this videowe're going to be talking about Tesla0 to 60 time of 2.28 seconds asmeasured by motor trend now shortlyafter publishing that video Jason Cammisaand Frank Markus and motor trendreached out to me and they said hey thereason why your theoretical limit of0 to 60 in 2.32 seconds is actually slowerthan are measured time of 2.28seconds is because you are not includingthe amount of time it takes for one footof rollout and so they actually writeall this in an article I should have fullyread it before you know publishing avideo on it but regardless it'ssomething I want to talk about here andtalk about how rollout works why theindustry uses it and how impressive thisP100D actually is regardless ofwhich which number were looking at 2.53vs 2.58 (2.28) so what is rollout well if youtake your car to a dragstripyou may have already known what this isso basically what happens is there'sgoing to be two light beams going acrossthat track you're going to have at thepre-staged beam and then you're going tohave the stage being so as your engineup to that start line of that dragstripyou're going to hit the pre-staged beamand that's going to let you know thatyou're 7 inches away from the stage beamso slow down and check very carefullyuntil you hit that stage beam thenyou're going to continue to roll yourcar up until you hit that stage meanthey'll be a light that lets you knowhey you're staged you're in the rightspotdon't move and wait for the Christmastree to go down so you know when tostart your race so where this one footnumber came fromonce the lights tell you to go what'sgoing to happen is you're going to startmoving and the clock does not startuntil this stage beam is no longerpointing on your tire so once there's aclear path through this stage beamthat's when it starts the clock yourtires going to start to rollyou're going to continue to move and soyou're already moving and this stagebeam is still pointing on your tireuntil you leave it completelyonce you get to this position here andthat's when the clock starts and so thisdistance right here is that rolloutthat's basically free time because thestage beam hasn't started the clock yetand yet you're moving and so typicallythis ends up being about one foot youget up toabout three miles per hour and it givesyou about 2.3 second advantage in yourzero to sixty time now as you canimagine the rollout of a vehicle canvary and so there's two major factorsthat can change this the first being thediameter of the tire so if you have asmaller tire it would roll off of thisstage beam sooner than the overalldistance that traveled would be shorterand smaller tire will give you less of arollout advantage a larger tire willgive you more of a rollout advantagealso the initial position matters so ifyou roll up to the drag strip and youcome just right when you get onto thatstage beam you stop then you're going tohave more of an advantage than if youwere to roll a little bit further andhave left distance to travel before thatclock starts so what the industrydecided to do to normalize all this it'sjust decided that every vehicle will getthe first foot free you don't measurethat first foot of travel distance andso that keeps it consistent amongeveryone so the reason why all of themajor auto journalists are going to usethis whether it's MotorTrend Road & TrackCARandDRIVER whoever they're allgoing to be using this one foot of rolloutand excluding that from their 0 to60 time partly to you know remainconsistent with the NHRA which you knowis basically the top tier of drag racingout there partly because if you takeyour car to a dragstrip that's thenumber that you're going to be able toget so you can measure directly with thecar magazine and then also it's done toremain consistent with historical dataso nowadays we can do all of this withGPS and you can get the truth 0 to 60time very easily and so many of themagazines will include you know bothnumbers for you look at just you knowbut they're going to give you thatsubtraction of 1 foot of rollout simply toremain consistent with all of history soif you go back and look at something inthe 1960s and compared with somethingfrom today you can compare you knoworanges to oranges or apples to applesI don't think many people say oranges tooranges but the point is you can comparethose directly and that will give youyou know something meaningful ratherthan if we switched everything today andthen you went back and looked itwouldn't be a direct comparison so it'skind of silly to include it nowadays butthankfully a lot of the magazines willgive you both numbersas MotorTrend did in their article on thisso the important things that you canlook at either or but when I wascalculating my theoretical limit whichwas 2.32 seconds that was assumingthe full duration from a stop to 60miles per hour so what does the p100actually do in thiswell they were actually able to crossthat one foot and just 0.26 secondsa little bit quicker than 0.3 whichis kind of an average of the cars outthere they were able to accelerate allthe way up to 5.9 miles per hour in thatfirst foot and they were able to achieveif you include that rollout, a 0-60 of 2.53seconds now this number is stillactually really cool and here's whytheir stopping distance for this exactsame car from 60 to 0 was 2.48seconds so if you look at that versus the 0to 60 it's a difference of one twentiethof a second between accelerating anddecelerating so basically the car canstop just as fast or I should say thecar can accelerate just as fast as thecar can stop which basically does nothappen I mean there aren't other carsout there that can do this so it's avery unique thing about this teslaP100D will probably get more of thesevehicles in the future part of its thefact that it's electricthere's no gearshift you get instanttorque honestly this thing's not going tobe using all of its torque until it getsto maybe 30 40 miles per hour becauseotherwise you're just going to sit therespinning the tires so it's got plenty oftorque no gearshifts kind of gives youthe perfect scenario of you knowaccelerating from 0 to 60 just in thatlast bit you know for maybe 50 to 60miles per hour doesn't quite have thepower to fully put down all of the gripthat it has and so it has a slightlybetter braking time then it'saccelerating time but for all intensivepurposes I mean they are basically thesame so very cool it's able toaccelerate an average of 1.0Gacross the 0-60 range and it's able todecelerate an average of 1.1Gs supercool now my other video I compared it tothe P85 not the P85D just a regular P85which was able to stop in just 102feet and there are some certainreasons for that but basically thatgives it a deceleration of 1.18G andthat's where I came up with mytheoretical 0 to 60 limit for the Teslabased on the grip of this P85 at 2.32seconds that it would be able toaccelerate in so if you look at thisvehicle here compared to the P100D thoughthere are some major differences 4633pounds versus 4891 pounds so about a250 pound difference between the P85versus the P100D it doesn't havethat all-wheel-drive system so itdoesn't have the two motors upfront andalso has a better weight distributionfor breaking for 47/53 vs 51/49 so it'sgoing to have a more even load underbraking and be able to deceleratequicker than the P100D so atheoretical 0-60 you know what's the fastesttime we'll ever see a Tesla P100Daccelerate based on today's currentstreet tire technology we're not talkingabout race car tires a lot of peoplelike to jump in the comments and youknow talk about you know Top Fuel atpoint eight seconds 0 to 60 things likethat that's on a completely different tirewe're talking street-legal tires herebased on the grip that it has indeceleration you could expect to see a0-60 of 2.3 seconds including that onefoot of rollout time or if you'reexcluding that one for the rollout timeas low as 2.1 secondsassuming a perfect world now this iskind of strange to say because thisdoesn't have motors up front so it'sgoing to have more weight and going tohave a different weight distribution sojust based on its grip on the grip ofthose tires and assuming that you canhave that grip for acceleration youcould potentially see a 2.1 0-60 timeversus the 2.28 which we saw in the P100Dso very cool we'rebasically just coming down to the limitof grip now which is cool that you knowtechnology has gotten thereit's really everything is dependent ontires these days you know if there aretires there are street legal and comeout that have moregrip than our current tire technologythen we will see these 0 to 60 times improveif they don't then they're kinda gonnayou know taper off here at this limit sothank you guys for watching certainlyrecommend checking out the other videothat i posted on this if you have notyet it goes way into the detail it goesinto way more detail on all the mathbehind all of thisso we're checking out thank you guys 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