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Re:Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more... by toast0 on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:28PM (#22014408)
Most of my vehicles have been able to do more than 100 mph on the highway, but I don't know how useful that actually is. There's just very few times it is reasonable and prudent to drive that fast in California.
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Re:Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more... by ryanlol on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:19PM (#22017621)
At least in Europe we’ve got a plenty of highways where you can reasonably go past 120mph as long as you use the GPS to preemptively slow down for merging traffic.

Of course, this will certainly not be viable during the typical commute hours.

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Re:Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more... by lm28469 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:05AM (#22018814)
Drag is starting to kill fuel consumption past 60mph (aka more pollution and we don't really need that now)
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