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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
60 to zero is more likely to matter long term.
If you want better range from an EV drive it gently. Putting a smaller motor on will not make a significant range difference.
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I agree on both counts. The most impressive thing on a new Porsche GT car, by far, is the braking ability. And the handling and acceleration are damn impressive as well. The better your brakes are, the faster you can drive.
And I recently took a short skiing trip in a new Tesla Model S, up to Mammoth from L.A. My friend who drove also has a couple of gasoline cars that we could have taken but he really wanted to test the range with superchargers along the way, sort of a test flight for future road trips.
The car did pretty well and there are plenty of fast charging stations along the way but he could never seem to get what the display said in terms of range after charging. The reason, of course, is that he has a lead foot and was doing 90mph+ most of the time.
I drove the car back to L.A. and along with the obvious advantage of it being downhill all the way, I managed to beat the display by sort of "hypermiling" it...a light foot even while going plenty fast. It's actually no different from an ICE car in that way, energy is energy.
