A Dodge Challenger R/T drag raced Tesla Model S Plaid and there was room for several buses between the winner and loser
- These guys drag raced a Tesla Model S Plaid and a Dodge Challenger R/T
- The Dodge Challenger has a meaty V8, but the Plaid has a lot more power
- The result left only one clear winner
Published on Mar 07, 2025 at 11:44 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Mar 07, 2025 at 12:01 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
A Dodge Challenger R/T took on a Tesla Model S Plaid in a drag race.
It didn’t go well for the loser.
One of these two cars sprinted off the line and finished the race whole seconds ahead.
You could fit buses between the winner and the loser.
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There was one clear winner
When two similar cars drag race, there’s always the feeling that anything could happen
But the result of this particular race, filmed by the Wheels Plus YouTube channel, could have been predicted just by looking at the stats, to be fair.
The Dodge Challenger R/T uses a meaty V8, but it ‘only’ produces around 375HP.
By contrast, the electric motors in the Tesla Model S Plaid puts out over 1,000HP.
The race result reflected that, as the Model S Plaid absolutely left the Challenger for dead.
This is hardly surprising, considering the Model S Plaid is perfectly capable of doing something similar against the much more powerful Challenger Demon.
Why Tesla vehicles are often faster in a drag race
All things being equal, electric cars accelerate faster than gas cars, although internal combustion cars almost always win if there’s enough road ahead to catch up.
If there’s one thing that EVs can do it’s generate an enormous amount of torque off the line.
And some of these vehicles have enough torque to cancel out all the extra weight they carry in the form of the battery.
The Cybertruck Cyberbeast, for example, can beat nearly anything in a quarter-mile drag race, despite weighing about a million tons.
The record-breaking Cyberbeast has so far managed to beat a Porsche 911, a Lamborghini Aventador, and even other EVs, such as the GMC Hummer EV.
Gas cars are capable of higher top speeds but, when it comes to a drag race, top speed really doesn’t matter.
Torque is the only thing that matters. And EVs have plenty of that.
Just another one of the reason EVs are so popular.
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