Since around 15 years, Tesla Motors and Lucid Motors has been engaged in an aggressive campaign to increase the number of electric vehicles. exciting battleFor supremacy in the electric vehicle market hundreds of billions of dollarsAt stake

Watch their cars race at incredible speeds across a quarter-mile stretch of asphalt.

DragTimesPopular YouTube channel, YouTube, held a similar race recently between Tesla’s Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Dream Edition. They are both high-performance sedans from their respective companies, which means they offer extraordinary horsepower.

According to Lucid Air’s website, the Lucid Air Dream Edition starts at $169,000 and can have up to 1,111 horsepower. website. With 1,020 horsepower, the Tesla Model S Plaid is nearly $125,000. The average sedan is capable of producing between 1.020 and 1.020 horsepower. 200 and 300 horsepowerAccording to Autolist.

What happened to these two powerful EVs? In three of the four attempts, Tesla’s sedan was faster than Lucid.

Lucid won the race after Brooks Weisblat disabled Tesla’s “autopilot” feature.Launch Mode“, which increases the Model S Plaid’s acceleration and makes it accelerate in just 1.99 seconds. It can go from 0 to 60 mph in a matter of seconds. This does not happen at the cost of battery life and acceleration. Motor Trend notesIt takes several minutes for the feature to be prepared.

Comparatively, it takes the Air Dream Edition about 2.5 seconds for 60 MPH to move from its standing position. As you can see, HypeBeast noted on Wednesday, Tesla’s car weighs about 400 pounds less than Lucid’s car – which could also help explain why the Model S Plaid reigned supreme on the drag strip.

CNBC Make It reached out to both Tesla Motors and Lucid Motors for comment but they did not immediately respond. Weisblat did note in the video, however that Lucid Motors’ spokesperson told Weisblat the company is focused more on luxury and efficiency than speed.

Do you want to know how efficient a 1,100 horsepower car is? Weisblat seemed to be asking viewers rhetorically. Weisblat asked viewers, seemingly rhetorically: “Or how fast it’s?”

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