Since the introduction of a Tesla update with an improved race start mode for Tesla’s top models Model S and Model X Performance, there have been several tests with it. But they focused on the sportier Model S and comparing the Tesla with the electric rival Porsche Taycan. Only now has a YouTuber in a Model X dealt with the new software and checked whether it really ensures that the electric car can start quickly many times in succession. That was confirmed – however, a hardware part of the Model X did not last long.
Model X from the woman, stretch from friend
The test is shown by the YouTuber i1Tesla with a Model X Performance in the new Raven version, which belongs to his wife. It is already equipped with the new launch mode, for which Tesla promises more horsepower, a crouched cheetah attitude at the start and more temperature resistance. A GPS measuring box is connected to his smartphone on board the Tesla and shows the all-important time in the USA that he needs to sprint over a quarter mile (around 400 meters). According to the moderator, the battery is 80 percent charged at the beginning of the test and preheated for maximum power output.
Then it starts on a friend’s flat race track. At the first brute acceleration, the Model X Performance takes 11.1 seconds for the quarter mile. This is actually less than was previously known from this Tesla model – according to the moderator, at least 11.3 seconds. The first attempt remains the fastest in the test, but the times don’t get much worse in the subsequent runs either. They are shown in each case and do not seem to rise over almost 11.6 seconds. And the Performance Tesla shows high battery temperatures and lets the fans run loudly, but it doesn’t give up.
“We could probably do it all day,” the moderator comments on the new endurance of the Tesla Model X when accelerating. However, he carefully stops the test after about ten tries because too much is probably not good for the battery – he would prefer not to show the video to his wife anyway.
However, there was a second reason why the YouTuber canceled the “torture test”, as the title of the video says: The front axle began to vibrate with increasing fear. Many owners would be familiar with this problem, says the moderator, and in fact it is often mentioned in forums that the drive shafts are damaged relatively quickly with the heavy Tesla with the high power. With the tested Model X, the vibration is said to have occurred before, but then got worse so that “at 80 or 90 miles I thought the wheels would fall off,” the video says.
Tesla had to replace “axes”
However, the YouTuber is already back in his garage, and his wife’s Tesla Model X has not only passed the test torture for a long time, but has already guaranteed new drive shafts or bearings for it (although he himself speaks of new “axles” ). The problem already affected performance models from Tesla before the latest Raven generation (and to a lesser extent also less powerful Model S and Model X), and with this, too, it is obviously not cleared up. Not everything can be controlled with software, as it turns out.
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