I know a well-off ex-surgeon who likes cars. He bought a Tesla after test-driving it on the recommendation of a friend.
So, I asked him, how far can you drive it? He replied, “It gets 200 miles on a charge; but the way I drive it, 85.”
Electric motors have full torque at zero-RPM, which explains the acceleration. Of course, we were talking about a Tesla S, not a Prius. And, the way it came up was that we ran across some poor Tesla owner searching for a high-curent outlet with a bunch of adapters in his hand because his battery was nearly drained.
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Excessive acceleration from a dead stop increases battery drain exponentially.
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