Groover wrote:
With completely different gear ratios between ICE engines and electric motors torque has become an irrelevant number. What we need to know is what the motive effort is at the ground under specific circumstances. Even on ICE engines we need to be clear whether torque multiplication from the torque converter would be factored into that.
This is not a new concept, farm tractors and train engines have been rated that way for over 100 years.
"Electric motors have maximum torque coming off zero rpm. That is why the Tesla is fast in the 1/4 mile."
Tesla acceleration is also due to AWD with very effective torque management that is very difficult to replicate with an ICE engine.
What is crazy is some developing plug in elec hybrids with transmissions. Nothing like going through the effort and not using the most useful aspect of the electric motor.
