The Ferrari left Ferrari SF 90 at 2.1 seconds, the Porsche 911 turbo s lightweight 2.24 seconds. The real number would be about 0.2 to 0.3 seconds longer than what those numbers say. So for example, when this Tesla got the record and they said it was like 1.99 second, the actual time was like 2.3 seconds. That's kind of like an a whole Elon Musk joke.
What's the maximum a car can accelerate? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn how fast cars can really go, how tires work, and the differences between combustion and electric cars with host of Engineering Explained, Jason Fenske.
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