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You know, I really like the idea of getting the real numbers for what I'd be paying for. kWh of the battery is a clearly definable number that makes it easy to

You know, I really like the idea of getting the real numbers for what I'd be paying for. kWh of the battery is a clearly definable number that makes it easy to compare between the different options. "How far the damn thing drives" is incredibly fuzzy and dependent on things like speed and driving habits - for a start, their estimate is at 55mph which seems slow to me to cover 300 miles at (is that the limit in the States or something?). The 0-60 time is used widely across the automotive industry, as you probably know. I've not seen anyone use "a graph" before, but frankly I prefer this; those numbers tell me that they're all pretty quick (and the 4.4s one extremely so) and I can easily compare that to petrol alternatives.

smacktoward 15y ago
> is that the limit in the States or something? It depends.[1] Speed limits in the US are set by states rather than the Federal government, so they vary depending on where you happen to be driving. Larger/less-dense states tend to have higher limits than smaller/denser states do. There was a national speed limit of 55mph put in place on highways in 1974, but it was repealed in 1995.[2] My guess is that they go with 55mph because memories of the national highway speed cap mean that figure is still fixed in lots of peoples' minds here as "highway speed." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Stat... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law