Green vs. Mean: Tesla Model S Drags the M5

Ezra Dyer pits the Tesla Model S against the BMW M5 in a drag race during Automobile Magazine’s 2013 Automobile of the Year testing at Gingerman Raceway. On paper the new BMW M5 should take the electric sedan to school, but that certainty isn’t the case as seen in the video below. The M5 sprints to 60 miles per hour in 4.2 seconds when mated with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission according to manufacturer data, and the gang from Tesla note the “Signature Performance edition” of the new Model S will hit 60 in 4.4 seconds. So what’s going on here?