Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin...
by soperj on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:04PM
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you're not silent by the time you hit 60 even if it feels that way in the car. It makes a significant amount of noise at 30mph
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin...
by pengaru on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:13PM
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> you're not silent by the time you hit 60 even if it feels that way in the car. It makes a significant amount of noise at 30mph
Everything's relative, and relative to an ICE automobile executing a 3-second 0-60 time, an EV doing the same is silent.
Silent enough to make the driver far more likely to do it and convince themselves they're doing it without being antisocial.
But at this point you're just willfully ignoring the correctness of that statement and I'm basically talking to a piece of sheetrock.
This is about the acceleration from 0-60 in 3 seconds.
Because of how quietly a fast EV can perform this feat, the argument is that it's encouraging bad/antisocial driving behavior in general.
When an ICE does that sort of 0-60 time the whole neighborhood hears about it. That alone has a moderating effect on most drivers behavior even if their ICE vehicle is capable of it.