Is the Tesla Plaid ACTUALLY that Fast?

The Tesla Model Plaid is probably the fastest accelerating car you can buy today, but that’s under a “very specific” set of conditions. So I got curious. about what those very specific sets of conditions are and why are they so important? So today we’re gonna break them down and figure out how you can stack the chips in your favor to beat it in an actual drag race.

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[jaelthegoat]

“Take the seats out and let skinny bob drive and now we’re cooking” is such an underrated line lol

[TomCei]

Yo Yo Yo, you can't just change up Nolan's glasses reload sound. I almost choked on my lunch with that friggin squeaky toy sound XD XD

[twothreebravo]

"as much as 3 F1 cars, a typical SUV, or 2 long-fin pilot whales or 1 short-fin pilot whale"
Americans will measure in anything instead of the Metric system.

[neeljavia]

Never remove the sounds when Nolan adjusts his glasses.
It reminds me to do my own.

[RZN]

0-60 sub 2 second!!

Forza Game Mechanics: lol

[thomasbarrack]

Love how we learn so many unknown things about the whole car sector in general. Manufacturers, engineering, comedy, you guys do it all and I am here for it! Love your work so much!

[jadeobsessed]

I love when two different Donut shows feature each other

[coreydabrowski]

They did it. The editors found a funnier sound clip for Nolan

[jebemtimamu]

Rimac has also said the Nevera will do 0-60 mph in 1.85 seconds, and reach a 258-mph top speed. DragTimes measured track 0-60-mph acceleration during the record attempt, with a best result of 1.9 seconds

[jw]

Jeremiah: "I can't wait to buy one of these used!"

Too real man, lol.

[DragTimes]

You don't need to wait for the full cheetah stance to finish before launching, we have still run in the 9.2-9.3 range in a heads up race with courtesy staging...

[kidney]

So it went 0 to 60 in 2.1. Well, now I'm impressed.

[mycosys]

Nolan is great fun to watch, his genuine nerd enthusiasm and love for what he's doing is just infectious. I envy you dude, i hope you always love what you do just as much

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[cpt.]

For some reason I liked how Jeremiah mentioned carwow and drag times. It's like my favourite car car youtubers collabing or something.

[MaxwellDarwin]

This really puts Fast & The Furious into perspective. Imagining Brian’s Eclipse pulling a sub-ten second time seems like much more of a stretch than it used to.

[TastedRasted]

Would’ve been funny if the whole video was Jeremiah saying “you can’t” and just staring into the camera for 10 minutes

[shayanishtiaq]

Like doug said "its terrifying anyone can have this amount of power in such a low price now"

[alexisriveraxable]

I remember that Motor Trends intentionally did Suzuki Samurai dirty back in the day and hurt their marketshare in the US. I also remember they faced ZERO accountability so I do not trust any testing data they put out.

[Pinhotube]

I just wanna know the settings for the chroma key, It's literally perfect