{"id":124367,"date":"2021-06-28T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/tesla-model-s-plaid-defeats-cars-built-to-win-pikes-peak-nobody-would-expect-us-to-be-faster-than-that"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:22:32","slug":"tesla-model-s-plaid-defeats-cars-built-to-win-pikes-peak-nobody-would-expect-us-to-be-faster-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/tesla-model-s-plaid-defeats-cars-built-to-win-pikes-peak-nobody-would-expect-us-to-be-faster-than-that","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model S Plaid Defeats Cars Built To Win Pikes Peak \u2014 \u201cNobody would expect us to be faster than that.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsfXeAJxymg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Electric motors have a lot of power and it is instant on-demand.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When Tesla unveiled its new Plaid Model S earlier this month, it took the world by storm, fueling dreams of speed, racing, and fun. In the sense of a grand finale to Tesla\u2019s event, another event was talked about in the weeks following. That event was the annual race to the summit of Pikes Peak. Also known as \u201cThe Race to the Clouds,\u201d the entire track winds through 156 turns over 12.42 miles as it reaches the summit of Pikes Peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric motors have a lot of power and it is instant on-demand. When Tesla unveiled its new Plaid Model S earlier this month, it took the world by storm, fueling dreams of speed, racing, and fun. In the sense of a grand finale to Tesla\u2019s event, another event was talked about in the weeks following. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}