Video Summary
- The car has a 1,000-horsepower tri-motor platform with a zero to 60 mph time of 2 seconds.- When first produced, it was the fastest accelerating car in the world.
- The Model S platform is on a 10-year-old luxury sedan platform.
- A Tesla Model S Plaid can be bought for nearly $100,000 off its original MSRP.
- A 2021 Taycan Turbo S which had a base MSRP of $190,000 is now worth an average of $92,000 on the wholesale market.
- With battery performance is at its worse during cold temperatures, winter driving a 600-mile trip is not suggested.
- Tesla made it look so easy to go electric.
- Every other automaker is going the electric and hybrid route to match it.
- A normal luxury car like the 2021 S Class (new at $117,000), will depreciate to $62,600 at wholesale market value, but Tesla’s electrical cars are falling quickly and steadily compared.
- Driving a Tesla Model S requires multiple recharge stops that will add 2.5 hours to a 600-mile trip.
- The newer Model S has upgrades to the interior materials.
- The video shows that they had a better look with a little more on.
- Overall, the reviewer likes this car; however, with the full autopilot system it's much worse.
- This test run had a range of about 230 miles compared to the 340 that the EPA estimated.
- The dealership was not adding or buying any more Tesla’s given the huge depreciation.
