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In California, where this targeted, the maximum legal speed even on a freeway is 70mph.
by jhbadger 6y ago
In California, where this targeted, the maximum legal speed even on a freeway is 70mph.
- strawberrypuree 6y agoGoing that slow on, say, 101 south of San Jose w/no traffic would get you honked at, flipped the bird, or worse.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIf the road is wide open, and I'm in the right lane minding the speed limit, anyone that gets mad at my speed clearly deserves it.
- abawany 6y agoSometimes they end up passing the pain on to the law abiding driver: https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1326755485610020864 https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1326755485610020864 .
- Dylan16807 6y agoI feel like that example could have hit someone going 90 just as easily.
- harikb 6y agoThat may be true, but the minimum speed before you are honked at from the car behind is about 60. That also matters.
- yellowapple 6y agoOnly if you're in the left lane, which you shouldn't be unless you're, you know, actually passing someone. Basically, just pretend you're driving a really tiny semi and you're good to go.
- shard 6y agoJust for fun I've driven at 55 for a few weeks when I was trying to see how high I can get my mpg number. Every car was passing me, including semis. Even when driving purely in the right lane.
- kleinsch 6y agoAnd yet at 70mph on California highways, most traffic will be zooming past you...
- vermontdevil 6y agoOnly a few hours a day. The rest everyone is snarled in bumper to bumper traffic.
- strawberrypuree 6y agoIt hasn't been that way for the past 8 months.
- jrumbut 6y agoI know nothing about this car but my intuition is to try to avoid consistently operating something at the extreme end of its capabilities.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoFor all we know there is a software limiter meaning its top speed is well within the safe range. It would be pretty poor to sell a car that would fail quickly under normal usage.
- kube-system 6y agoTop speed might not be a relevant concern here. How long does it take to get to 60mph with 27 horsepower, and/or is it even possible on a grade? This power is on par with a riding mower at Home Depot.
- baybal2 6y agoMust be quite fast, as for any electric motor.
- semi-extrinsic 6y agoFrom the manufacturer website the car is listed as 45 kW, which is 60 horsepower, not 27. Looking at the power-to-weight ratio, it's on par with the cheapest version of the Renault Zoe, so it should actually be fairly useable on highways. The Zoe does 0-60 in 13 seconds, which is definitely not fast, but it's not unusably slow either. Probably the collision safety would be what stopped me from taking this thing on the highway.
- kube-system 6y agoHmm. They list that as the motors “rated” power which seems to beg the question of why that qualification is merited. Is the battery and motor controller capable of delivering the 45kw the motor is rated for? Motortrend says “less than 30hp” and CNN says 27. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2021-kandi-model-k27-k23-ev-details-price-photos/ https://www.motortrend.com/news/2021-kandi-model-k27-k23-ev-... https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/success/kandi-10000-electric-car-china/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/success/kandi-10000-electric-... I couldn’t find any other citations of output power.
- baq 6y agodata point: i've been in a zoe on a highway and it didn't have any issue getting to 140km/h (~86mph).
- foxyv 6y agoElectric horsepower curves are different from ICE horsepower. [1] ICE engines typically only put out peak horsepower at higher RPMs. A Honda Fit has a peak horsepower of 128. However at 2000 RPM the Fit only has 27HP, like this Kandi K27. [2] At similar gross weights the Kandi with the pedal to the metal will accelerate like a Honda Fit driven casually or a truck with a trailer. Enough for 55 mph highways, city streets, or the slow lane of a 65 mph Freeway. [1] https://auto.howstuffworks.com/how-does-horsepower-figure-into-electric-cars.htm#:~:text=Just%20like%20a%20gasoline%2Dpowered,to%20put%20things%20in%20motion.&text=The%20main%20difference%20is%20immediate,but%20that's%20actually%20peak%20horsepower https://auto.howstuffworks.com/how-does-horsepower-figure-in.... [2] https://www.automobile-catalog.com/curve/2018/2566010/honda_fit_ex_6-speed.html https://www.automobile-catalog.com/curve/2018/2566010/honda_...
- shard 6y agoEven though the max speed is 70, I feel like 75 is the average traffic flow speed.