Electric Performance
The Battery Temperature Window: Preconditioning Explained
An electric car's full performance exists only inside a temperature band, and outside it the control unit reduces available current for two...
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Electric Performance
Instant torque, then heat. How electric cars win the first run and lose the fifth.
Electric Performance
The Charging Curve: Why a Track Day Ends Early
Peak charging power is a headline that exists for a few minutes at a specific state of charge and a specific temperature. Everything a...
Electric Performance
Electric vs Combustion on a Lap: Where Each Wins
Around a circuit, the electric car and the combustion car are strong in different places and the lap adds them up. The EV wins corner...
Electric Performance
The Battery Weight Penalty: What 500 kg Costs
A performance electric car carries a battery of 500 to 800 kg, and that mass behaves very differently depending on what the car is being...
Electric Performance
Instant Torque: Why an EV Wins the First 30 Metres
An electric motor produces close to maximum torque from zero rpm, so an electric car applies its full available force at the instant the...
Electric Performance
Range at 200 km/h: The Number Nobody Advertises
Electric range collapses with speed faster than combustion range does, because an EV has no idling losses to hide behind and its drivetrain...
Electric Performance
Regenerative Braking: Where the Friction Brakes Take Over
Regeneration handles ordinary braking and almost none of an emergency stop. Decelerating a 2,200 kg car at 1.0 g from 100 km/h demands 600...
Electric Performance
The Fifth Run: How Electric Cars Lose Their Power
Every published electric acceleration figure is a first run number produced from a good state of charge with everything at the right...
Electric Performance
One Gear: Why Electric Top Speeds Stay Low
Most electric cars have one forward ratio, so their maximum speed is a division sum. A motor limited to 18,000 rpm through a 9:1 reduction...
Electric Performance
WLTP vs Reality: Reading an Efficiency Figure
The WLTP figure is not a prediction, it is a comparison instrument, and it does its job well. The cycle averages 46.5 km/h over roughly 23...