Fourteen years of one nameplate, never formally split into generations the way most manufacturers would: Tesla’s own documentation and Wikipedia’s article both treat the Model S as a single car that was updated twice, in 2016 and 2021, rather than replaced.[1] The three trims recorded here are snapshots of that evolution rather than a fixed range: the entry-level 85 of the 2012 launch car, the dual-motor P90D of 2015 that made all-wheel drive standard on performance models, and the current tri-motor Plaid, whose 1,020 hp combined output and 1.98-second 0–60 mph time made it briefly the quickest-accelerating production car sold anywhere.
That 1.98-second figure is deliberately not converted into a 0–100 km/h time here: a 0–60 mph run and a 0–100 km/h run are different quantities measured over different distances, not the same number in two units, and no directly-measured 0–100 km/h figure is published for the Plaid. Its 200 mph top speed, by contrast, is a straightforward speed conversion and is stored as 322 km/h.
