Jay Leno has a serious need for speed. Over the summer, the former “Tonight Show” host got behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S Plaid to break the world production car quarter-mile speed record. READ MORE: Jay Leno Hangs Off The Front Of A Plane In Incredible Stunt Now, car fans are getting to see the amazing feat in an episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. “This is tri-motor – two in the back, one in the front,” Tesla chief designer Franz Von Holzhausen explains in the episode. “So all three motors are carbon-sleeve motors.
It’s new, never been done before, invented by Tesla. And that just allows you to have constant power until you run out of room or you run out of speed.
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