{"id":15802,"date":"2022-02-19T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2022-02-19T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:05:27","slug":"plaid-vs-air-vs-taycanturbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15802","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Taycan Turbo S Can’t Hang With 1,000+ HP Tesla And Lucid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides the Rimac Nevera<\/a>, no production EV has managed to give the Tesla Model S Plaid headaches on the drag strip, not even the 1,111-hp Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance.<\/p>\n

Recently, we’ve seen the Model S smoke the Lucid Air<\/a> in a series of drag races, and we also know that the Porsche Taycan Turbo S stands no chance to the might unleashed by the Plaid’s tri-motor powertrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That said, three-car drag races are always fun to watch, and this latest one from DragTimes<\/em> that pits the Tesla Model S Plaid<\/a> against the Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance and Porsche Taycan Turbo S makes no exception. We all know how it will end, but that doesn’t mean we won’t watch it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For added visual effect, the Porsche was placed between the Tesla and the Lucid, helping the viewer better understand the difference between 750 horsepower and 1,000+ horsepower.<\/p>\n

The whole point of this series of races (two drag races and one roll race) is to see it from the perspective of the Taycan Turbo S<\/a> driver. As he says at one point in the video, his 750-hp Porsche just can’t hang with the 1,111-hp Lucid and 1,020-hp Tesla, even though it’s by far the most expensive of the bunch\u2014it costs $218,000, almost twice as much as the Plaid ($124,000) and significantly more than the Air<\/a> ($169,000).<\/p>\n

Of course, peak power is far from the only thing that matters in a drag race, so here’s a short reminder of the key specs of these three performance EVs.<\/p>\n

Starting with the Tesla<\/a>, it’s got 1,020-hp from a tri-motor AWD powertrain with no transmission and it weighs 4,833 pounds.\u00a0The Lucid<\/a> boasts 1,111 horsepower from a two-motor AWD powertrain with no transmission and it tips the scales at 5,236 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for the Porsche<\/a>, it packs up to 750 hp in overboost mode from a two-motor AWD powertrain that features a two-speed transmission. Besides being the most expensive, it’s also the heaviest at 5,300 pounds.<\/p>\n

Time to hit play on the video above and see how badly the Taycan Turbo S got beaten.<\/p>\n

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Besides the Rimac Nevera, no production EV has managed to give the Tesla Model S Plaid headaches on the drag strip, not even the 1,111-hp Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance. Recently, we’ve seen the Model S smoke the Lucid Air in a series of drag races, and we also know that the Porsche Taycan Turbo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}