This article has brought out a lot people to comment who don't know anything about sports cars, but feel necessary to insist they do. It's bad enough that I had to login in to dispell this reoccurring canard:
"EVs are faster in a straight line! EVs have a flat/high torque curve!" -- big whoop.
1) 0-60 times are biased against ICEs as their torque curves _aren't_ flat and so the start of range is mostly when the engine is at a disadvantage. In an actual road situation the ICE is already at speed and therefore at or near the peak of their torque curve.
2) Actual roads have these things called "curves". Your bulky heavyweight EV handles like a brick on 3 wheels. And it doesn't have as responsive braking due that weight.
Your second point misses an important fact: the Tesla Model S Plaid set a 7:25 Nurburgring lap time, and the Porsche Taycan did it in 7:07. Both of these lap times are faster than many high-performance ICE cars, and close to GT2/3 times which are just below 7:00.
As you might expect, the technology will continue to evolve, too.
This person is explicitly ignoring that EVs use tire and braking configurations that maximize efficiency over performance in order to make their point. It's like saying ICE cars are inherently bad at performance because of Ferdinand Porsche's VW Beetle design choices or because my 3000lb vehicle (lighter than a modern Porsche) Jeep XJ isn't a sports car ICE vehicles can't be performance vehicles.
True, but you do still feel the weight. Even with good tires, they give up time around the corners and make it back with insane acceleration. That's why you generally see hybrids for the most extreme hypercars, at least over the past decade or two. They have most of the advantage of electric without the weight penalty. (I own and track both ICE and electric cars and find both have advantages and disadvantages.)
To keep the comparisons honest, I honestly couldn't care less about the performances of Taycan. That's not what I drive and that's not what everybody on my roads drive. Yeah maybe I see one hypercar a week but I definitely won't keep that as the bar for driving behaviour. So maybe we should compare between (pick your specific models) Dacia and Toyota?
Lmao, so basically you dislike EVs and are an ice fan.
The truth of the matter is that EVs win out in so many categories already and are improving year on year.
2: batteries are getting lighter and more energy dense. Your point is essentially moot in an era where everyone is buying giant trucks and SUVs anyway, that they drive with a single occupant to the supermarket to pick up a sandwich.
If you go to the pricing page on Stubhub's sales interface (as a seller) and open the developer console, you can see the request as it grabs the last X sales to show as a pricing guide. While the table rows representing each sale only include the date, the actual JSON data includes a full timestamp, and you can see it in that request.
And half his family / cabinet is implicated in relaxing sanctions against the Russian kleptocracy in exchange for information damaging to his political rivals.
Why 3 more? Grandparent already counted one of the border points, so the correct number is either 1 more or 2 more, depending on whether you consider the floating point number -0 to be in the closed interval [0,1] or not.
"EVs are faster in a straight line! EVs have a flat/high torque curve!" -- big whoop.
1) 0-60 times are biased against ICEs as their torque curves _aren't_ flat and so the start of range is mostly when the engine is at a disadvantage. In an actual road situation the ICE is already at speed and therefore at or near the peak of their torque curve.
2) Actual roads have these things called "curves". Your bulky heavyweight EV handles like a brick on 3 wheels. And it doesn't have as responsive braking due that weight.