Leawood911:
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 Carbon brakes for the Plaid, $20K

Cooling actually is the key. The existing steel brakes have enough heat capacity to do one or two stops without being overheated.

Carbon brakes have a a higher capacity for heat but if it's saturated, it still won't work. 

If there are proper functional cooling ducts, those standard steel brakes could be more functional. But of course opening up holes for cooling means sacrificing aero efficiency.

 

One or two stops. Lol. 

 

Plaid will top 152mph on a 1/4 mile run. It weights over 4800lb. on 14" steel rotors that's not well cooled, if at all. Yeah, one to two stops max. It won't be able to do a 3rd one in a row. 

And why do you feel the need to have big twisted reactions to everything Tesla. You either go hyper defensive, sarcastic, ticked off, basically nothing normal. Can you not for once calm down and write some intelligent replies?

At the timing lights, a Plaid will be carrying over 5 million joules of kinetic energy. All of that will need to be converted to heat by Tesla's physical brakes as they do not do blended braking and no one is going to use Tesla's lift off throttle regen to gently bleed them off, they will ended up in the next county and still be going somewhere.

Every other EVs or hybrids have blended braking, that means when one press on the brake to stop, the car itself will use up all the regen capacity first, and after maxing that out, apply the physical brakes for the rest of the braking events. Everyone else also have better designed cooling ducts for the brakes to keep them from overheating. 


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