DYNO TEST: 2024 Model 3 Performance 

Nobody said it was over 600 wheel HP. It makes almost 615 HP at the battery and that is a true measured value we read directly from the battery. The issue with your dyno numbers is that Dynos are not meant to measure power or torque at very low speeds. That is why cars are typically dyno’d in 4th or 5th gear at much higher speeds. 500+ HP at low speeds is an extreme amount of torque and dynos can’t typically handle it. Plus they lose accuracy because the torque and accelerations are so severe at low speeds. There is no way a car with only 500 WHP is running 10.75 @ 127 mph in the 1/4 mile. Just plug that time and speed into any HP calculator and you will see that those specs require at least 600+ Wheel HP. The car absolutely makes 610+ HP at the battery and something like 550+ WHP when the battery is fully optimized. I know everyone wants to get dyno numbers for this car but it won’t be accurate because the single speed transmission in an EV makes typical dynos useless for measuring an EV. The Kia EV6 GT that is said to have 576 HP has that value at the battery. If you read the exact same metric for the new Model 3 Performance it will read 613 HP. Why does everyone believe the 576 HP value for the EV6 GT and not the 613 HP value for the Tesla?

Thanks man. I've been waiting to see this.

The dude who ran many 10s already inc multiple 10.7s in NC shared his teslafi data at max output so far of 457kws. The U.S. spec new 24 m3p is a fkn monster! Best per dollar value American made sports sedan available. 👍🏻😎 Makes me wonder if the new m3 lr rwd trim at $42,490 with 363 miles of range has the 4du in it? Since it does 0-60mph in 4.9s with a single motor stock. Imagine a boost upgrade to run low 4s in a rwd trim m3 for under 38k!

Many ppl overlook what Elon talks about in this model, that it’s not just higher HP, but more importantly the PEAK power & torque is MAINTAINED LONGER for a better full 1/4 mile for example. Another great vid Michael.

Great vid with awesome data thanks for doin this stuff with your M3P so we don’t have to lol have a good one and good luck growing your channel

Awesome commentary at the beginning! Thank you for being informed and informing us!

Good video Michael ! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for that! The thing with the new Performance model is that it continue to pull hard att higher speeds where the old model fell off. So maybe the peak HP-numbers are similar, but if we would put the charts from the new and old car ontop of each other, we would se bigger and bigger difference as the rpm/speed goes up. That is a good thing :) Thanks again!

Love it !!

Lots of good info. Thanks

Thanks for that, very interesting and your explanation at the beginning was excellent. Many a young man and their money has been parted with dyno tweaks.

Sweet!!!

Great breakdown discussion on inertia vs brake dyno. With a 15% difference as mentioned in the video, then your best run would be 514 HP --> 591 HP on a DynoJet. Nice!

Very cool, good to learn about HP

tbh the torque is probably the most interesting thing to see, we need those numbers!!

yet more great content. Thanks much for doing this. Seems the big power difference between the 2024 Performance and earlier versions is not the absolute power, but the "area under the curve". As Tesla stated, the new motor is able to produce higher power far further up the rev range than the earlier motor. The performance testing definitely shows this to be the case, with substantially higher 1/4 mile trap speeds and substantially faster high speed acceleration. When comparing my former 2019 LRDM car to the Performance version of that car it was pretty clear that the Performance variant was only faster up to 60, and after that they were the same. My new 2024 Performance is not like that, and has substantially more high speed power than the 2019 car.

Finally, one other person on RU-vid who understands dynos and how you can’t compare between dynos on different days, and what the purpose of dynoing is. If I had a dollar for every moron who compares what someone got on some other dyno on some other day to what I got, lol.

Got our 2024 M3 Ludicrous on June 26 and the driving just feels way better than my Model X Plaid hahah

Can you try the Highland LR version too?

Thank you for posting this. To me it really felt like more hp. Maybe someday we will get a ludicrous unlock for more power the motors are capable of!

Impressive!

Will be cool to log the KW draw with something like the S3XY Commander when it becomes available in next month. My late 2023 MYP will pull 455 KW peak when I am @ 90%+ SOC and my batteries are close to 120 degrees. Battery pack temp can play a big roll in output as well.

Everybody focus on dyno numbers I don’t care about dyno numbers. I don’t know the power of my 9’s Mustang. The most important figure to determine power/weight is trap speed. That doesn’t lie A 500whp narrow power band car will be slower than a 500 whp wide power band on the same weight. New model 3 has a wider powerband than the previous and that’s where the quicker acceleration comes from.

Great vid with useful background information, thank you! LearningFast was reporting low 600's for battery horsepower reading with a conditioned battery. That's about 100HP difference vs. this dyno run. With much fewer moving parts vs. ICE, there should not be many mechanical losses. Maybe a difference in battery temp? (Did you happen to note battery temp during the dyno?)

Inertial dynos usually estimate the transmision looses, and provide engine power figures. If you can try to do that with an EV, as they have regenerative braking and no clutch, you will overestimate the looses and you will read at least 100 extra hp.

even if peak power is only incrementally improved, clearly the power is spread out to the top end because people notice how powerful the car pulls at higher speeds over the old one. that wouldnt be just a incremental power increase, thats a factor of the improved motor that can output more power for longer, at higher speeds while the old one peaks and drops off way sooner.

In the registration paper of the HL LR it says 498. I highly doubt that after this video. By any chance can u get a Long Range version too?

OH SHHHIII

There's gotta be a software performance upgrade coming down the line, the motors and battery should be able to do more according to their specs??

Why have track mode if it's going to overheat and fall apart etc ??

The EU version only has 460 hp, while the Long range has 490 hp

FYI: Ref Italian Dyno, if it's the European M3P version, it has less power then the US version.

and NM?

10.9 sec quarter mile all day long ❤

Do a top speed run

seems like you didnt heat up the battery. the difference in hp with a battery at 25celcius and one at 50+ celcius in an m3p is 50hp.

AC was on? Seems like that would certainly affect power.

I saw the old one dyno at 550hp. Can you actually do a fair race against a stock 21/23 M3P with same state of charge see what the results are

We know the new M3P is quite a bit quicker than the pre-refresh so no one really knows the actual HP of either one. Mishas buddy and yours show close to the same HP, but the new one easily out runs the last gen so using a dyno on these is a crapshoot.

What is lr dyno of highland

The best would be using an SI unit - Watt. There is no different HP/PS conversion problem.

Yes there are differences in dyno's. But didn't the gen1 M3P receive a 5% boost on two separate occasions? You cited one, and this could account for some difference in the older dyno number in the high 400's you were citing vs what some others have measured at a little over 500 peak HP. Also, an important distinction between the old and new is not just the peak power, but the spread over which it makes consistently higher power. The newer gen motors are more efficient and holder higher hp over a broader wheel speed. So the old M3P might measure as high as 523hp on one dyno up to a certain speed, but then it trails off until it settles around 400hp, whereas the newer model has a higher peak HP and then settles to a lower hp as speed increases, but the lower rating is obviously higher than the old gen motors. I don't know if that makes sense, but I'm guessing on a like for like dyno, where the old M3P was measuring over 500HP at the peak and closer to 400HP at higher speeds, the new one would measure somewhere north of 600HP and settle in the high 400's at higher speeds.

how do you go into dyno mode ?

Whats Torque please?

USA or EU version?

Whatever the Dyno says isn't telling the whole story. You don't get 2.9 seconds like that

Too bad that power will never be used bc every Tesla owner has *range* *anxiety* all that hp is *useless*

so it's faster than a sports car for the price of a camery ?? got it.

Tesla itself is full of misconceptions

Brakes still suck

This guy has no idea what he is talking about.