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Yeah. If you actually want to pull something heavy - or just want to accelerate fast - that flat torque curve you get from an electric motor will leave ICE truc
by cure 8y ago
Yeah. If you actually want to pull something heavy - or just want to accelerate fast - that flat torque curve you get from an electric motor will leave ICE trucks in the dust.
- kazinator 8y agoElectric motors should deliver more torque at lower RPMs, not simply flat torque, because power is torque x angular velocity. If we hold power constant, lower angular velocity means more torque.
- geggam 8y agoAgreed. However your battery will die very quickly and leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. I had to take a couple home who were on the side of the mountain coming home from half moon bay to the pennisula. The gauge told them they had 40 miles left on the battery but that mountain climb killed it. If they had a gas car I could have poured them a bit from a can. As it was they had to get a tow and I drove the extra folks home
- greglindahl 8y agoOr, you could use the nav system of your car to get an accurate estimate of battery usage. I've driven that exact route repeatedly, the nav estimate was spot on.
- geggam 8y agoPoint being there is no quick fix to running out of juice.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y agoYea that could happen but I would also expect a pickup truck to have significantly more juice in it than a sedan. This might also be one of the selling points for Ford( "we have the longest range"). Range anxiety is mostly a solved problem at least for Teslas but it still looms in some peoples' heads.