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Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach by sgt on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:07PM (#26449016)
It's certainly a new way of thinking about minimum viable cars. Nowadays you sort of expect 200hp from a normal family car, most often closer to 300hp. My car has a 4L that produces 286hp, and it's guzzling fuel. Most of the time is spent in towns and cities going slowly. I could easily move to electric, but sometimes I also need range and cruising speeds of 70-90 mph.
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach by sitkack on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:17PM (#26449097)
You are arguing past each other, hp has little bearing on the performance of a vehicle in the regimes we are talking about. Torque is what should be measured for in town performance and that is relative to weight. It only takes 10-30hp to maintain a vehicle at highway speeds.
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach by sgt on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:22PM (#26449155)
That's true. And how much hp/torque did the Model T have? Probably not much, and I am sure it could do a respectable 30 mph.
Re:China’s $4k electric cars tap huge market Tesla can’t reach by Retric on Saturday March 13, 2021 @05:24PM (#26450654)
The Model T had 20 hp and did 45mph on level ground.