The typical vehicle we choose for towing is either a ute or an SUV – preferably diesel for the extra torque – but if we’re talking about torque, that’s something battery electric vehicles have right from standstill. They don’t need to build engine revs to build torque, so does that...
The weight of the thing is the thing that requires the EV to have larger/heavier and more expensive motors – in order to move all that weight. And the heavier the EV is, the faster it burns through the power it has – just the same as a heavy truck burns more gas than a lightwei...
or more than, ICEVs. It simply isn’t true. There is no shred of truth to it. Fossil fuel vehicles do incredibly heavier damage to the environment that any modern EV does. Feel free to embrace electric vehicles today. You will be doing the world a lot...
2024 Range Rover Sport SV also brakes harder than its predecessor from 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour), stopping in a shorter distance. Considering its carbon-ceramic brakes and stickier tires, it should come as no surprise that the heavierSUVstops that...
This latest fire on the Felicity Ace is the fourth since, in 2019, the Grande America, a roll-on roll-off vessel with more than 2000 new and used vehicles on board, sank in the Bay of Biscay after the cars ignited. The crew of 26 tried to combat the fire bu...
The Range Rover was not going to be roving very far into the wilds because electricity gets a bit sparse in the desert or forests, but those tend to be driven by moms carting their kids around anyway. And then it struck me, I finally understood where electric vehicles fit into the automo...
“Customers want to spend less time charging their vehicles and they want to extend the range of their vehicles. To do that, you could increase the battery capacity, but that only adds more weight to the vehicle.”Not only are heavier vehicles likely to be less efficient wh...
TIP: IIHS changed its side crash-test protocol in 2021, using a heavier ram. Although the results of this new version of the test were shown in some vehicles’ results in the past couple of years, 2023 is the first year the IIHS figured those results into a vehicle’s scoring. Consequen...
Tires and glass emerge as dominant consumables of the EV era Mar 06 2020 by Reilly Brennan at TechCruch ... The other significant growth lever for tires is the secondary effect of the powertrain: EVs consume tires at a much higher rate than internal combustion vehicles. They’re heavier ...
That's because an AWD EV has two or more motors, and the motors can sized differently, with different power/efficiency curves. These curves are much flatter than the curve for an ICE, but are not completely flat. This allows the software to send power to the motors optimally: use both ...