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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by Goz3rr on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:35AM (#21605862)
>where an ICE has a pretty fixed resistance.

That's what the gearbox is for

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck by arghwhat on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:18AM (#21606273)
Apart from inertia on initial clutch-in, there are diminishing returns from increasing the gear ratio when it comes to compression losses.
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