tested the the Plaid on regular pavement it required 2.1-seconds to reach that yardstick and 9.4 seconds for the quarter mile, again omitting 1 ft of rollout, which was calculated to be worth 0.2 seconds.
And there are even more Plaid caveats: achieving those times requires the car to be in Drag Strip mode, which involves heating the battery to the optimum temperature and can take several minutes. By the time you’ve gone through that malarkey at the stoplights on main street the minivan that was in the next lane will have disappeared over the horizon.still monstrously fast
, and let’s not forget that the Dodge’s numbers come with an asterisk too, because they were also recorded on a sticky surface, minus the rollout and with the engine running on E85 fuel. Fill the tank with E10 instead and the power output falls from 1,025 hp to 900 hp and torque drops from 945 lb-ft to 810 lb-ft .
Whether the Demon can still go sub-2 to 60 mph in that configuration, Dodge isn’t saying, but as the only combustion car here we’re pretty confident that a wheelstanding, V8-bellowing zero to 60 mph run in the 170 is a heap more exciting than doing the same in an EV, whatever the stopwatch says.
Incorrect, there are 4 cars. The Lucid Sapphire is actually faster than the plaid. Don't know if it's faster than any of those other cars but here's the proof.