In what may be the most unusual, but most Canadian drag race ever, a Tesla Model S goes head-to-head against an electric Taiga snowmobile.
Taiga Motors is a Quebec-based manufacturer that opened in 2015 and specializes in electric personal watercraft and snowmobiles. Earlier this year on World EV Day the Canadian company showed off their whisper-quiet electric Orca personal watercraft paired with a Tesla Model Y.
Celebrating #WorldEVDay with a fully electric adventure ⚡⚡
@World_EV_Day / #taigamotors #taigaorca / #teslamodely #modely pic.twitter.com/UToE2uVrHY— Taiga Motors (@Taiga_Motors) September 9, 2020
Now that we’re days away from winter, Taiga is showing off how their electric snowmobile fairs against a Tesla Model S in a 1/4 mile sprint.
Filmed at the Napierville Dragway in Quebec earlier this summer, the Tesla Club Quebec brought out a Model S 85D for a friendly race, and the result may surprise you.
Before you say it was only a 85D, the 180hp Taiga Atlas can reach 100km/h in 2.9 seconds. That’s nearly a second faster than the Long Range Plus at 3.8 seconds, and within spitting distance of the Performance Model S time of 2.5 seconds.
Taiga offers three variants of their electric snowmobile with ‘Standard’ or ‘Performance’ options – the Ekko, Atlas, and Nomad. The longest range Atlas can travel 140km on a fully charged 27kWh battery that can recharge to 80% in just 20 minutes using a DC fast charging station
