The vehicle was hacked to remove its speed limitations.
fficial top speed of 175 miles per hour . But what if it could go faster?
That's a question a man called Guillaume André asked as he proceeded to get behind the wheel of a white Tesla Model S Plaid at the Trois-Rivières airport in Québec, Canada.He then stepped on the accelerator pedal until the Tesla reached a top speed of 216 miles per hour ,André is not just any regular guy. He is the CEO of Ingenext, a Quebec-based company that sells car parts, kits, and modules that help unlock software-locked features in Tesla vehicles.
He, therefore, was particularly adept at hacking the vehicle to remove its speed limitations. And it seems that without these in place, the car can really speed up.. It saw André and his team shut down the Trois-Rivières airport to conduct their experiment. The location had a ~3 km long runway that was perfect for the test.
Was the car modified besides hacking its speed limitations? Yes, but only slightly. Ingenext's Model S Plaid consisted of a stock production vehicle equipped with bigger brakes from Mountainpass Performance and higher performance tires . These tweaks were made mostly for safety reasons, as reaching such high speeds could cause a regular car to burn up its tires and also be unable to perform a halt.
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