Tesla Plaid, Rimac Nevera, and Lucid Sapphire face off in three-way EV drag race, with one ultimately outpacing the others
- Rimac Nevera goes up against a Lucid and a Tesla in a drag race
- All three cars can accelerate from 0-60mph in less than 2 seconds
- The result was nowhere near as clear-cut as people expected
Published on Nov 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Nov 14, 2024 at 10:01 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
The Rimac Nevera has just gone up against a Lucid Air Sapphire and a Tesla Model S Plaid in a drag race, and the results are surprising.
On paper, the Nevera, a hypercar, should be a lot faster than both the Lucid Air and the Model S, which are both sedans.
In practice, it was a bit different.
The fastest car on paper was nowhere near as dominant as everyone thought.
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Rimac Nevera vs Lucid Air Sapphire vs Tesla Model S Plaid
All three cars are electric, but that’s the only thing they have in common.
While the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Air are both sedans, the Rimac Nevera is a seven-figure hypercar, built by the same company that also gave us the Bugatti Tourbillon.
The thing is, both the Lucid Air Sapphire and the Tesla Model S Plaid are extremely powerful and surprisingly fast.
The Model S Plaid puts out 1,020 horsepower and is capable of reaching 0 to 60mph in 1.99 seconds.
The Air Sapphire is even more powerful, with 1,234 horsepower, and Lucid says it can do 60mph from standstill in 1.89 seconds.
The Nevera delivers 1,914 horsepower (or 2,107 hp with the R variant), and it has a top speed of 412mph (256mph).
Its 0-60mph time is impressive, 1.74 seconds, but the way it accelerates to 249mph and then slows back down to 0 is truly mind-blowing.
This is just one of 23 performance world records that the Nevera holds.
How did the drag race go?
The guys from the DragTimes YouTube channel decided to find out which car of out the three would be the fastest in a quarter-mile race.
While the Rimac Nevera did win in the end, the result was nowhere near as clear-cut as people might have assumed it would be.
Both the Lucid and the Tesla were faster off the mark, and it took a few hundred yards for the Nevera to catch up before it eventually won.
But we shouldn’t be surprised at how quick the Lucid and Tesla were off the mark.
Cars like the Model S are capable of beating nearly anything in a drag race.
We’ve seen it beat a Lamborghini Revuelto, a Ford Police car, and even a Bugatti Divo.
It takes an F1 car to beat the Model S or, as we’ve now learned, a Rimac Nevera.
