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by saagarjha 1997 days ago
Assuming your Tesla is around 2000 kg and traveling at 30 meters/s, it's got about 900,000 J of kinetic energy. Stopping in 10s is some serious power that you'd need to throw off.
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All of yhe 90 kW doesn't need to be radiated in real time though as it's ok for the brake elements to heat up.