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This is a weird car guy myth that gets tossed around. The thinking is that, electric motors make uniform power output at any RPM, and torque = some_constant *
by mywittyname 4y ago
This is a weird car guy myth that gets tossed around. The thinking is that, electric motors make uniform power output at any RPM, and torque = some_constant * power_output / RPM. Thus, as RPM goes to zero, torque goes to infinity.
Obviously, this is wrong in the real world for so many reasons, but that doesn't stop this from getting repeated.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoRepeating it is a great way to paint yourself as one of those dolts that likes to act like they care about EVs for the virtue points. Everyone who's ever used a drill knows that while speed and torque are inversely related in most of a motors normal operating range you don't get insane torque at low speed. Of course you can wind a motor differently to mitigate this somewhat but still, not a huge improvement. You wouldn't see reduction gears on all sorts of things if this were the case.