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You might not have heard of Unplugged Performance, but they're a big deal. They're run by Ben Schaffer, the man behind Bulletproof Automotive. His Tesla-tuning venture came about by circumstance, when he moved onto the same business park as Elon Musk's Californian HQ and got chatting with the neighbours. Unplugged is now 90 per cent of Schaffer's business. Tuning an electric car is different than tuning a traditional petrol car, and so the Unplugged Model 3 has no powertrain modifications, the focus instead being on its suspension, brakes, wheels and tyres. When 0-60mph takes as little as 3.3secs, you could easily argue additional power is pretty low on the priority list. The cars we've tried here have coilover suspension ($1,995, or around £1,600), carbon-ceramic brakes (£7,000) and lightweight forged wheels (another £7,000 or so).