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Moved from the Model 3 Performance speculation thread
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Just to be clear, ICE cars don’t at all maintain a constant motive force just because they can shift “back to peak HP.”
You’ll see in both scenarios the vehicles’ available wheel torque dramatically falls off with speed.
Almost all of the descriptions of M3Ps “falling on their face” or whatever, because they happen to trap a few MPH slower (which would equate to maybe 2-3 car lengths on a highway pull), are nothing but hyperbolic. In fact, it’s less about having disproportionally lower wheel torque at high speeds as it is about having disproportionally more wheel torque at low speeds.
Moved from the Model 3 Performance speculation thread
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Just to be clear, ICE cars don’t at all maintain a constant motive force just because they can shift “back to peak HP.”
You’ll see in both scenarios the vehicles’ available wheel torque dramatically falls off with speed.
Almost all of the descriptions of M3Ps “falling on their face” or whatever, because they happen to trap a few MPH slower (which would equate to maybe 2-3 car lengths on a highway pull), are nothing but hyperbolic. In fact, it’s less about having disproportionally lower wheel torque at high speeds as it is about having disproportionally more wheel torque at low speeds.
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