Here’s How the Fresh Teslas Stack Up Against Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Ferrari
Tesla Unveils Better Battery Range
On Tuesday, Tesla announced fresh versions of its luxury cars that break major barriers for electrified vehicles. But are the upgrades, as Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk claims, enough to forearm Tesla the title of fastest car in the world? 
The P100D Model S with Ludicrous mode will propel the car to sixty miles per hour in just Two.Five seconds. Tesla's Model X sport utility vehicle will get there in Two.9 seconds. The fatter, 100-kilowatt-hour batteries also provide the very first official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency range of more than three hundred miles on a charge. 
These speeds are crazy rapid, matched only by sold-out supercars with lil’ production runs: Ferrari’s $1.Four million LaFerrari, Porsche’s $845,000 nine hundred eighteen Spyder, and Bugatti’s $Two.Trio million Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse. Tesla’s fresh Model S, at $134,500, is just as quick as any vehicle on the road. Even its seven-seat SUV strikes the McLaren 675LT.
Speeds like this suggest more Gs than Earth, so the rate of acceleration is swifter than falling. It can feel difficult to support your head and shoulders if you very first don't lean back on the headrest. And perhaps the strangest feeling of punching it on a Tesla is that, with two all-electric motors, the wheels don’t slip and acceleration is practically silent.
Here’s a chart that shows how Tesla ranks in speed and price among the world’s elite. The latest Model S is in a category of its own, especially when you consider it’s a spacious four-door sedan with two trunks. The Model X is the only SUV to make the list.
For the very first time, Musk said, “the fastest car in the world, of any kind, is electrified. In the future, people are truly going to look at gasoline cars in the same way we look at steam engines today: They’re quaint, but it’s not indeed how you get around.”
Squeezing another ten kilowatt hours out of what was already the world’s largest car battery posed a difficult challenge, Musk said. The improved battery packs use the same Panasonic cells as previous Teslas, but they require fresh wiring and switches to the seats to ensure safety, given the extra weight. Musk said the packs are reaching spectacle and capacity boundaries for the current generation of cells. The company will be shifting to a larger cell with the launch of the Model three next year, enabling extra gains for the entire Tesla lineup. 
Here’s a table of the world’s quickest cars. The acceleration times are provided by the manufacturers, tho’ some cars have been clocked a bit quicker on the track. (Previous versions of Teslas have, too.) 
The fresh Model S will get an EPA range of three hundred fifteen miles per charge (that’s six hundred thirteen kilometers, using the more forgiving European rating model), while the Model X SUV will have a range of two hundred eighty nine miles (542 kilometers on the EU scale). Production of the fresh cars will originally be limited to about two hundred a week, at least for the very first few months, Musk said.
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As the fresh batteries roll out to cheaper versions of the car that aren't optimized for spectacle, we could see EPA ranges treatment three hundred fifty miles per charge, if previous models are any indication. For now, here are Tesla’s latest top specs: