There must have been one helluva marketing meeting to come up with this PR stunt.
“No one believes electric vehicles have pulling power!”
“Let’s prove they do!”
“With a 287,000 pound plane!”
Silence.
Six months later…
On a remote taxiway at Melbourne Airport, a Tesla Model X P100D with the greatest pulling power of any electric passenger vehicle came face to face against the newest star of the Qantas fleet, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
The stunt earned a new Guinness World Record for “heaviest tow by an electric production passenger vehicle,” according to CNN Money.