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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
Not the ultimate answer either for a sports car:
When the motor torque is no longer limited to save the drivetrain (after 40mph for this dyno), the torque curve drops catastrophically. EVs are stupid fast starting at 0 RPM, but the torque output of an electric motor pretty much drops linearly with RPM, so an EV will never ‘pull to redline’ like a great ICE does.
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Do you never rev the engine and drop the clutch? The goal is to skip the beginning slow part of the ICE curve and get up into the powerband ASAP.
Electric motor by and large have massively wide torque plateaus. They're efficient across a wide and wonderful RPM range that far exceeds what an ICE does well. For this reason, they tend not to ship EVs with any sort of transmission. The MS Plaid is perfectly serviceable in the quarter mile up to 150mph. Plus, it'd take a damn beefy transmission to handle all that torque. But then Porsche does just that in the Taycan, with the 2-speed. The result? More efficiency and such, but the Plaid still puts it to shame in a straight line. It's better to make a stronger motor and dump more power than to add a transmission. And 150mph in the quarter is pretty much all anybody needs.