Re:Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Ye...
by mikeash on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:32PM
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Rolling resistance is roughly constant with speed, so it's unimportant for efficiency. The main driver of changes of efficiency with speed is aerodynamic drag, because that increases with the square of the speed. Trains presumably have very low aerodynamic drag because they're long and thin.
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