• Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip
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    16 hours ago

    30 kWh and 170 miles range?! That’s >5 mi/kWh, I haven’t seen anything run that well (consistently). Big if true for everyone - I’d buy one in an instant if Honda had a little more BEV chops, I’m still a bit skeptical of them.

    My first EV was an eGolf with a 24 kWh battery. At its peak that was 100 mi range (was rated 80-something). Would have killed for this back then.

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      14 hours ago

      Small battery = less mass to carry = less energy required to move

      Combined with modern motors and you get this kind of performance

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        7 hours ago

        Kinda like an analogous concept as the rocket equation, where adding range requires adding enough fuel to carry the weight of the additional fuel.