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Watch a Tesla-Powered Electric Kit Car Run a 10-Second Quarter-Mile

From Road & Track

Back in August, we told you about a wild project car that combines a Factory Five 818 kit car, two Chevrolet Volt batteries, and a Tesla Model S motor. Back then, the car was in its early stages, making 420 rear-wheel horsepower and frying its tires. Now, it's back, with an even more powerful electric motor and some fat drag radials.

Tapp Auto, the folks behind the build, didn't go the traditional route with the mid-engine Factory Five 818, a kit engineered to use a Subaru WRX drivetrain. With some engineering and programing magic, they were able to mate everything to a drive unit from a Tesla Model S. As the team got farther along in the build, they decided they could extract more performance by swapping in the motor from the P85 version of Tesla's executive sedan.

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The result, on some sticky drag tires, is a very impressive 10.1-second quarter-mile. For comparison, the fastest drag strip run so far for Tesla's newest P100D with Insane Mode is somewhere around the 10.7 second range.

And it's not all about performance either. The uploader, Eurodyne Chris, claims he's seeing around 200 miles of range from the dual Volt battery setup-when it's not doing it's not doing full drag launches, presumably.

via Electrek

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