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Are you sure that's not due to better sound proofing of the cabin? I'm referring to the noise outside the vehicle. As for handling: The hummer EV has a 0 - 65
by el_nahual 4y ago
Are you sure that's not due to better sound proofing of the cabin? I'm referring to the noise outside the vehicle.
As for handling:
The hummer EV has a 0 - 65mph time of 1.4 seconds...and a stopping distance from 70mph of 200 feet.
That means if a person were to step on the gas for a second and a half, and a pedestrian happened to be crossing the street 80 yards away, that person would be dead.
- wizee 4y agoOutside the vehicle, the engine and tires are pretty quiet too, not much different from any other car. As for hummer level acceleration, I agree that’s unnecessary and would be dangerous to use in an urban area. 0-65 mph in 1.4 seconds sounds wrong though, it’s more like 4 seconds. Car and Driver measured 3.3 seconds for 0-60 excluding rollout time. Accelerating full blast in such a fast car in an urban area would be reckless on the driver’s part, but that doesn’t mean you can’t drive it safely and reasonably in urban areas. The Hummer’s bad stopping distance is from a combination of heavy weight an off-road focused tires not optimized for dry pavement grip. With that said, its stopping distance is only around 15% worse than the average car. As an example of stopping distances and cornering grip of a more typical pickup like my RAM 1500, on stock tires, it’s 187 ft from 70 mph, and cornering grip is 0.78 G. For comparison, a Toyota Corolla has a 174 ft stopping distance and 0.82 G grip on stock tires, so around 5% better but not drastically better than the RAM truck.