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Description: Some of you may recall Toyota setting a lap time of 7:47 in August of last year on the infamous 12.9-mile German track with their EV P001, however Audi is saying that the e-tron is the champ due to th...
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I just read that this thing has 4 electric motors, one for each wheel. The torque produced from the 4 is 3320. 830lbs feet at each wheel.
To get that number Audi measured the torque at the wheels instead of the output shaft (as is standard). The E-tron puts out about 252 lb-ft when measured conventionally.
As a comparison, the Tesla Sport has 288hp and 295ft lbs of torque from a electric motor and it hits 0-60 in 3.7 secs.
Something must be wrong! That's twice as much torque as a tractor trailer. To only do 120 mph, it's geared so low for that much torque. It should burn the tires right off, if not break all the drive components. Who agrees with me, that's a typo.
Why not just take it a step further than EV and hybrid and hydrogen, take it to the next level of fuel/energy savings... Flints tone power, just no flooring where the pedals would be and we do like Fred flintstone did
The problem is that you need a lot of energy to produce and to keep hydrogen. So as long as we won't be able to produce a lot of electricity from renewable sources, it's just pointless to transform fuel / coal / etc... into hydrogen.
Any body else think we should focus more on hydrogen? We get to keep our current engines and the only byproduct from burning it is water, sound easier to me
@anders, there arent gears in an ev, its just the motors and i already stated why the speed is what it is, higer top speed required a higher rmp, witch creates more heat witch would kill the battery faster in the range area but also in the life of the battery.
No typo. But it's kind of surprising with those numbers. A lot of unused torque which could have been used for higher top speed with another gearing, but the 0-60 time isnt even that good. I think it has something to do with the motors beeing ...
In some places the electricity is generated solely through wind, solar, geothermal, etc. Electric power has the possibility to be fully renewable if they can get the battery technology there.
but on the plus side holy cow 3000+ ft/lbs of torque thats crazy.. but producing that probally wipes out the battery prob why the 0-60 is where its at
cause or tye rpm of electric motors, they would have spin faster and would start killing batterys and over heating, ev cars arent that great only perk is they dont use gas, other then that they took a step back compared to internal combustion engines
why are all electric cars considered green when most electricity is made with coal and oil?
Description: For the record run, Audi gave the e-tron some leeway and boosted top speed to 155mph. For comparison's sake, the e-tron's time of 8:09 was only 5 seconds slower than the 4.2-liter V8-engined...
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Sad that the Z51 and Grand sport Corvette lap the 'ring faster than this R8 that costs twice as much....
"Oh we got the record? What a surprise, we came totally unprepared, let's just take a picture of the car in front of this conveniently placed billboard."
Didn't Megane RS 265 trophy do about the same? Just goes to show how good that car is
The actual word in French is 'étron'..
Is that a recent slang? In France?
Interesting. I bet Audi is really worried right now.
E-tron meens "sh*t" in French... Did you know that Audi before finding a name for your EV R8?