The upgraded brakes slow everything down in a hurry. It starts off unbelievably strong but falls off a bit when you're beyond 70 mph. Acceleration is smooth and absolutely linear. When we get into the San Gabriel Mountains and transition onto the challenging, windy roads writhing through them, I take back the steering wheel. A lift of the throttle lets braking regeneration ease us back down to the speed limit as we scoot into the left lane, activate Tesla's Autopilot system, and zone out as we crawl through thick L.A. We are tossed back into our cushy, curvy black leather seats as we merge onto the highway. With the car in Ludicrous mode, I push the accelerator flat. A press of the brake pedal closes the driver's door and starts the Model X. The driver's door opens automatically as we approach it, and a tap of the key fob opens Schaffer's door for him. When we ask him why Unplugged didn't replace glass with Lexan for the windows, the big panoramic windshield that continues well above the driver's head, or the big panels on top of the falcon doors, he pauses, smiles, and says he's not sure why as he hands us the Model X's gloss-black key fob. "Weight is important." We ask him why Unplugged didn't further reduce weight with carbon-fiber body panels, and Schaffer says the stock aluminum pieces are so thin and so light that Unplugged couldn't do much better with composites. "We're trying to pick up all the little percentage points of improvement we can," Schaffer says.
"Our wheels are 27 pounds, knocking out 40 pounds of unsprung weight." The Model X didn't need bigger brakes, but the carbon-ceramic brake package with six-piston calipers weighs less than stock.
"On this Model X, the stock wheels are 37 pounds each," Schaffer says. Unplugged focused its efforts on weight reduction, which would benefit both kinds of EV tuners. And power isn't the only goal in the emerging EV tuning world, which also celebrates modifying a car to achieve maximum range.
TESLA MODEL X UNPLUGGED PERFORMANCE UPDATE
Unplugged didn't add power to this Model X mainly because Tesla owns the firmware on its cars and can update them and make them more powerful via a wireless signal.
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