What’s coming from Elon Musk and Tesla could be much bigger (faster) than we thought
Elon Musk tweeted and the Internet exploded with speculation. But Musk said it didn't explode enough.
SpaceX billionaire founder and chief executive, and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, poses beside a Tesla New York in September.
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Is Tesla about to unleash a car that can go from 0 to 60 mph in less than three seconds? If the Internet has its way, yes.
When CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter Wednesday to tease an Oct. 9 announcement, speculation about what “D” might be ran wild.
But maybe not wild enough. Electrek claims it got word that the marquee feature of today’s Tesla event at 6 p.m. Pacific time will be the P85D – a “supersport” version of the Tesla Model S – will have all-wheel drive. That part is widely expected.
“What’s perhaps not expected is what Tesla has been able to squeeze out of this battery and Dual-motor beast. My understanding is that the vehicle has been testing (unofficially) under three seconds on the 0 to 60,” Electrek reported. “This is incredibly fast.”
Interestingly, this bit of speculation falls nicely into what Mr. Musk shared in a typically vague interview with Vanity Fair where he danced around questions but said this: “The internet is very good at guessing these things. They are directionally correct but the magnitude is not well appreciated yet.”
Could that 0 to 60 be that missing magnitude?
We’ll find out tonight.