As long as you have a charge, pulling power is not an issue. Electric motors have amazing torque.
Absolutely. It is why diesel locomotives use the diesels to run electric motors instead of the diesel powering the locomotive directly.
I had a Tesla pull up next to me at a light this morning, and when it turned green, that car screwed. Really took off.
Except for the battery/charging part, I see huge advantages in maintenance and performance.
Of course, that is like saying “Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
Look at the advantages of jet engines over reciprocating engines. I think reciprocating engines are just great, and nothing sounds as muscular (Okay, perhaps a Tomcat taking off in full afterburner is pretty cool sounding too) but a jet engine is so much more reliable than a reciprocating engine. Granted, more expensive and more complicated in some ways, but to keep it going, you pretty much just have to keep spitting fuel into the combustion chambers and it will go on and on.
Those advanced radial engines at the peak of their development in the B-29 and B-36 were massive and powerful, but...they sure did have maintenance problems. Lots and lots of moving parts.
> As long as you have a charge
yeah just that little detail. check the range he got.
“As long as you have a charge, pulling power is not an issue. Electric motors have amazing torque.”
range is the issue though ... you can have all the pulling power in the world, but if you have to stop for an hour every 50 miles while driving in the rocky mountains when it’s -23 degrees out, then that’s a total non-starter, esp. for a $70,000 vehicle ...