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Regarding the question of a 200 lb passenger affecting performance, I conducted that study on Saturday during my drag strip binge! My best times were solo (I'm 180 lbs) at 11.4, and my worst times with a 200+ lb passenger were 11.6. To my surprise the car kept producing 11.6 runs with a...

Very cool vid! Quite educational, thank you. I'll have to try that, but I'm going to die if my car curbs its rims while self-parking! And allow me to second what others have stated regarding your wrap... awesome! Love the blacked-out chrome bits!

Hey, thanks! The car gets all the credit! 5 of the 20 slips that I have from the drag strip on Saturday are posted on page 34 of the Drsgtimes Ludicrous 0-60 and 0-100 mph is the video section of this forum. My car ran 11.4. Quite far off from the 10.9 quoted in the sales literature. My...

Time slips - - - Updated - - - All runs were performed in "Ready!" and never dropped to preparing at any point during the day.

Made 20 passes at the drag strip yesterday in my P90D Ludicrous. The car consistently ran 11.4-11.5 at around 115 mph. Of course, I had the "Max Battery Power" setting selected. With a full-sized passenger the car slowed to 11.6. I showed up at the track with 96% charge. Ater 20 runs it...

Tesla P90D vs Dragster 1/4 mile - YouTube

Tesla P90d ride along - YouTube

CTS-V with lots of mods, E85, drag slicks. His best time is an 11.2. He is a super-cool guy and so we raced over and over! Tesla P90D vs modded CTS-V - YouTube Tesla P90D vs CTS-V - YouTube Tesla P90D vs modded CTS-V - YouTube Tesla P90D vs modded CTS-V - YouTube Tesla P90D vs Modded...

The Z is driven by an experienced drag racer and a super-nice guy. He oriented me to the drag strip as this was my first time. His car was on street tires (no slicks), and he has around 650 whp due to a tune, intake and pulley upgrade. Copy of Tesla P90D vs Z06 with intake, pulley, tune -...

Super-nice guy in the Hellcat. His car was running on all-season tires. That beast just has too much torque for 275mm all-season tires. Tesla P90D vs Hellcat - Quarter Mile - YouTube

A friend has been telling me that I need to figure out a way to make the center display look like a flux capacitor in my Teslas, but this is even better!! He is going to have his mind blown when I show him the display on my car tomorrow! Thanks so much!

MikeBur, that is crazy! Thank goodness for your attentiveness, quick action, and WRC skills! I've had the same thought cross my mind when the car unexpectedly veers onto an exit ramp. As an attentive driver, you rapidly observe what is happening and you immediately take corrective measures...

About two hours ago I completed a 450 mile drive from Denver to Albuquerque. Used AP for 95% of the drive. I would estimate that the car attempted to take the exit off ramp approximately 20-25% of the time, and there happen to be a few exits between Denver and Albuquerque! It was startling...

Tires are reported to be new by the owner, but old rubber was my first thought as well. Maybe they are "new tires" that have been sitting on the shelf for 2 years at the tire shop! I wonder if it will engage it's LC programming in 2nd gear? Seems like a good idea given the absurd wheel spin.

The 911 would not hook up. I made sure the tires were nice and hot, used launch control, and let the pdk do the rest. It spins horribly in first,instantly upshifts to second and spins some more, until it finally shifts into third and bogs slightly. It was stunningly inefficient off the line.

My battery has been preconditioned to "Ready!" for all of my runs.

I'll see about getting a side-by-side run to see how quickly it gets ugly. It'll look great in the 0-60 mph! It should still look ok at 0-100 mph. But much past that it's certainly gonna get really ugly really fast!

Here is my pal's 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S PDK driven by me on the same stretch of road wherein I recently ran my Tesla. 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S. PDK. Quarter Mile - YouTube And here is the 60-130 mph, on the same slightly downhill segment upon which I recently ran my Tesla. 2011...

This is my pal's 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S with PDK driven by me on the exact same stretch of road where I recently ran my Tesla 0-100 mph. 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S. PDK. 0-100 mph - YouTube

You are welcome! And thanks for the great conversation. This road descends at 1.5 to 2.0 %. I am a competitive bicycle racer, and Strava (which is a website for cyclists to load their GPS verified times into a database) reports these grades which they define as "rise over run." Having...

I would think so.

All of my runs were at 6000 feet above sea level, and have been recorded with a Racelogic Performance Box with an external antenna. My track time has all been on road courses (in cars other than the Tesla), so I have no personal experience regarding an expected variation between street times...

Here you go, P85DEE! 60-130 mph:smile: Tesla P90D 60-130 mph - YouTube For those more proficient at sorting the effects of a slight downhill than me, this is same section or road wherein my car ran 0-100mph in 7.3 seconds, having just now run 7.5 seconds on a perfectly flat road. I suspect...

Tesla P90D 60-130 mph - YouTube For those more proficient at sorting the effects of a slight downhill than me, this is same section or road wherein my car ran 0-100mph in 7.3 seconds, having just now run 7.5 seconds on a perfectly flat road. I suspect that with aerodynamic drag being the main...

Just did this run on a perfectly flat road. Tesla Model S P90D 1/4 mile - YouTube The G reading was 1.06.

That totally makes sense. Thanks for being constructive with your valid criticism of the runs that I've posted. I certainly have no intent to "pad" the numbers or skew the data, it's simply that the safest roads in my area happen to have a gradient. I just completed this run on a perfectly...

I'm pretty sure that running the exact same segment of road in the opposite direction represents the control in this study. You will note that it was 3.0 seconds.

Isn't this fun?:smile: I will gather some additional data on Sunday. I can journey a relatively short distance to a stretch of road that is very flat, and for the most part conducive to driving swiftly. I suspect that the launches will be compromised by the thin layer of dust that gathers on...

6000 feet above sea level. Indeed, those cooling fans go wild after a few hard runs in the "Max Battery Power" setting!

Completely agree with Pete90D. The head-to-head racing could be a touch tricky. And in fact, much of my testing with the car this week has been in preparation for races against my pals and their various non-EVs. To get the car "Ready!" you can do everything reported by Pete90D. Another...

- - - Updated - - - - - - Updated - - - - - - Updated - - - Sorry about the absurdly rotated pictures. I'm not quite certain how to rotate them properly, but if you are willing to rotate your head to the left (or your computer to the right) I will explain the Max Battery Power, which...

Looks like v6.2 (2.5.46) I'll look into Powertools software for an iOS. Is that an App? - - - Updated - - - 21 inch wheels. Pano roof. But I removed the back seat and the passenger seat in the interest of weight savings for these runs. OK, not really! But it does have the 21 inch...

In the midst of the second of the two 0-100 mph runs today, which were separated by the amount of time necessary to complete a U-turn, the display beneath the "Ludicrous" setting went from "Ready" to "Preparing," and the car precipitously felt discernibly less robust. This occurred on the...

The downhill gradient on this segment of road is 1.5-2.0% (I'm a competitive bicycle racer, and thanks to the Garmin GPS that is on my bicycle, and Strava, I know the gradients of the roads in my area uncomfortably well). I'm certain that the uphill time and velocity will suffer significantly...

Battery at 90%. Slightly downhill. A smidgen of wheel spin on launch. Car in Ludicrous mode with "Max Battery Power" indicating "Ready!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO_4NLkWZ7I

Here is an uphill run and a downhill run on the exact same stretch of road. Still having some trouble with contrast on the video. My apologies. The beep toward the end of each video is the alarm on my Racelogic Performance Box letting me know I was going over 100 mph...

All runs performed in Ludicrous mode at Max Battery setting. Battery at 90% for the first run. Due to evening traffic considerations, these runs were all performed in the same direction and were slightly downhill. Uphill runs will be performed tomorrow. Racelogic performance box with...