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It may have a sliver of Chevrolet muscle car heritage, but the plug-in hybrid Volt didn’t stand a chance of beating the Tesla Model S in a recent quarter-mile race.
As you can see in the video below, shown recently on *That Racing Channel, *the Model S took the lead in the race right away, hitting the finish line in 12.562 seconds at 108.34 miles per hour. The Volt took a leisurely 17.201 seconds and only reached 80.36 mph. “Hey, that one on the left was so quiet!” a member of the audience remarks about the Model S right after the race finishes. Yes, that’s part of its all-electric beauty.
About a week earlier, the same Model S set a quarter-mile speed record for a production vehicle, hitting a time of 12.371 seconds at 110.84 mph. Motor Trend has done better than 80.36 mph with a Volt - netting 16.8 seconds at 81.5 mph - but in a race against the much more powerful and much costlier Tesla, it’s just an unfair fight. Check out the video below.Continue reading Tesla Model S vs Chevy Volt drag race ends exactly how you think it will
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