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EVs don't use brakes as much as ICE vehicles because of automatic regenerative braking. This converts your forward momentum back into electricity. ICE vehicle

EVs don't use brakes as much as ICE vehicles because of automatic regenerative braking. This converts your forward momentum back into electricity. ICE vehicles use engine braking or brake pads. Both of those are much worse in more ways than one. You might want to cross that off your list of things to complain about when talking about EVs.

hunter2_ 3y ago
The instant torque does blow through tires though. Maybe twice as fast as a typical ICE vehicle? The acceleration on a Tesla is like very, very premium ICE cars that few people have (>300HP). This could easily be tuned out, but that would cripple the thrill, i.e., bad for sales.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
  Why set your Tesla in Drag strip mode for commuting? It makes zero sense not to set it to Chill https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-43B58CAD-3DB7-4421-BFCA-0E921B6F731D.html https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-43B58CA...
  - hunter2_ 3y ago
    This is about driving in city centers, and I think a majority of that is not commuting but recreation.
- mywittyname 3y ago
  Powerful ICE cars have this same problem. One of my cars is turbocharged and has a torque spike at 2500 RPMs that with shred the tires even in higher gears if the throttle pedal is to the floor when the engine crosses over that rev band. And my other one has a V8 that will squeal the tires anytime I am remotely aggressive with the throttle. Car companies can tune the EVs to damp torque spikes, but there's no way around the fundamental fact that hard acceleration uses up tires. EVs accelerate hard, but they don't have to. That just happens to be a major selling point for most of them. AWD works in their favor here though, since it's distributing the torque across four wheels, and traction control on EVs can be incredibly effective. I'd be surprised if people in Model 3 Performances went through tires at nearly the rate that I do in similarly powerful ICE cars (~8-10k for driven wheels).

hunter2_ 3y ago

The instant torque does blow through tires though. Maybe twice as fast as a typical ICE vehicle? The acceleration on a Tesla is like very, very premium ICE cars that few people have (>300HP). This could easily be tuned out, but that would cripple the thrill, i.e., bad for sales.

rcMgD2BwE72F 3y ago
Why set your Tesla in Drag strip mode for commuting? It makes zero sense not to set it to Chill https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-43B58CAD-3DB7-4421-BFCA-0E921B6F731D.html https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-43B58CA...
- hunter2_ 3y ago
  This is about driving in city centers, and I think a majority of that is not commuting but recreation.
mywittyname 3y ago
Powerful ICE cars have this same problem. One of my cars is turbocharged and has a torque spike at 2500 RPMs that with shred the tires even in higher gears if the throttle pedal is to the floor when the engine crosses over that rev band. And my other one has a V8 that will squeal the tires anytime I am remotely aggressive with the throttle. Car companies can tune the EVs to damp torque spikes, but there's no way around the fundamental fact that hard acceleration uses up tires. EVs accelerate hard, but they don't have to. That just happens to be a major selling point for most of them. AWD works in their favor here though, since it's distributing the torque across four wheels, and traction control on EVs can be incredibly effective. I'd be surprised if people in Model 3 Performances went through tires at nearly the rate that I do in similarly powerful ICE cars (~8-10k for driven wheels).