Model 3 RWD is Faster?

What's wrong with everyone? I'm Brian from i1 Tesla and today we're going to try to debunk something that came up a while ago when the P 3ds four first hit the market and in July I think it was somewhere out there a lot of people. said: I think Tesla slowed down the rear drive

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three because they didn't want it to be so close to the p3d. Well, I didn't notice anything and it disappeared. I didn't see much evidence in it. or I didn't see anyone actually testing it because they were actually testing the performance

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three, so it disappeared, but recently it came back up again and someone messaged me on Twitter and asked if I could redo the test I did before.

I used to have one of those draggies whose GPS tracking devices I sent it to the company, but I can still do the same test in the exact same place by setting up a camera using the video so that the wait time is from zero to sixty because that's how you'll be. I will be able to see the screen and when I start moving and also when I reach 60 miles per hour and we can put that in parentheses and see exactly the speed from zero to 60 or very close to it. I'm hot enough that your battery is hot. enough for the engine and everything, so fair enough, it's the same thing, but before I did zero to 60 and 44.7 in one second from a standstill with slide start on, so let's do the same thing, do a couple of tests and see how close we are.

Okay, so I set up the camera here and just did a round trip, but not an actual tour. I just drove by the Industrial Complex here, this is really a NASCAR facility area so there's not much to do. on a Saturday, so let's switch to this camera right now, this was the place we started from last time, it's on Hill, wait and go. I'll do it one more time here and then we'll go through the footage until it's complete. stop and continue so I have no idea at this point. I'm going to review the footage and cut it right now.

Okay, this is the final cut or edit the videos in front of Cut Pro and this is it. how I did the first race I was recording and was able to throw a timer up here. I started the stopwatch as soon as I started moving and I went frame by frame and you can see there's zero and well I'm starting to move you can see the front of the car lifts up a little bit so once I got to 60 miles per hour, it was four point five two seconds in the first race, in the second race I did exactly the same.

What you can see is it stays on a hill and then it goes to zero and then the car starts to lift its two frames, it starts to move here and then one frame, the next frame is actually when the car starts to move, you see that he jumps pretty well and that. It was the second run at four point five three seconds the first was four point five two seconds so good results very similar these were at 95% state of charge you can't really see very well right there this is a movie that 60 frames per second and that's what it is, so I was able to get out of there.

I thought it might not be correct. I got back on the road and I ended up putting my iPad on the bottom here with a counter running, so what I would do is start the counter before I start moving, like here I start the counter and then right at the Hill Hold position and then here I stepped on the accelerator and if you go frame by frame you can see. that the card jumps pretty much like before and then at three point eight zero I recorded that number and then once I got to 60 miles per hour I recorded that number was 64 a couple, this was the first time I hit 60 miles per hour and I was at eight point seven, this puts this race at four point nine zero to sixty, but this was at a lower load rate here this load rate was at 78 percent, which slows down a little bit, it's That's why this was 4.9, even better than what Tesla advertises.

Okay, second run. I do the same starting from the same place where I put it. I'll hold down Home on the iPad and then I'll start moving. This second round was four points. nine three seconds zero to sixty so looking at these numbers obviously Tesla hasn't slowed down the rear drive model three in fact I think it's gotten a little

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because if you look at the first run I did with a 95 % battery and the same. Same road, same place and all that, but the first run was four point five two seconds and the second run was pretty much the same.

Now I was timing it as soon as the hood started to move up the car a little bit, I think that's when the car starts moving I was getting off when the car said 64 when I could see it was 60 the first frame it said 60 I was shooting at 60 frames per second 1080p at 60 frames per second I did that second or I guess the third run, the third and the fourth run with the stopwatch on the iPad and obviously they got a little bit higher numbers, slower numbers I should say because the indicated load was much lower if you watch Sasha's video of the previous Mountain performance she did.

I saw a little video a while ago where he took the same type of car, the same model three, put it on a dyno with 30 percent battery, did a dyno test and did it up to 95 percent and he actually found that between 90 and 95 percent there really is no loss of power, there is no change in power, in fact he saw that the initial torque is the same at all times, it really depends on the state of charge that you have the battery for when the power arrives. off, then the difference between the 95 percent and the 75 percent she tested will be: I think 95 percent will have full power up to 60 miles per hour and 75 percent will have full power all the time. up to 50 miles per hour, that's the point difference I got between those two runs, so I think Tesla hasn't slowed this car down at all, they've actually made it a little

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, but the first test I did a long time ago time when I first bought this car, I charged it to one hundred percent, we know from Sasha's video that it doesn't make any difference, but I got four point seven point one and now at 95% I got 4.5.2 and it's exactly the same car as No I have done nothing different except changes from brake pads to some track pads.

I haven't done anything else on this card. No suspension, no wheels, no tires, nothing else has changed since then, just fifteen thousand miles, so to answer your question, they haven't slowed down. not down I think this car has I think this car could have a lot more I think it has limited software and I think they can open this car in the future maybe what do they call that before they uncork it like maybe they can uncork this car So we can reduce this at 4.0. I think it's possible, maybe without traction control, this car can go a little faster if you have a Rubel Drive model 3.

Don't worry, it's not getting slower, you're just getting used to it. to the power that's what it is, I think that's the problem, it's like when you're going 100 miles an hour on the highway and then you slow down to 70, you feel like you're going slow, you're just getting used to it. and it's not bad, stay awesome, stay positive, subscribe to the channel and I want to say happy birthday to my beautiful wife Karen, today is her birthday, I think she's 29 again. I hope you have a great day. See you tomorrow.