Aside from serving as Tesla’s first breakthrough moment in the automotive industry, the Model S also represented a significant chapter for the all-electric vehicle segment, showing customers and the media alike that EVs were no longer experimental platforms held back from being on par with internal combustion-powered or gasoline hybrid vehicles due to their limited range and performance. The long-distance range per recharge, along with sports-car-equivalent power and acceleration figures, combined with smartphone-era levels of technology and features onboard via the central ‘Media Control Unit,’ are just some of the many qualities that have gone on to define other EVs in the present era, all of which began with the Tesla Model S.
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