For emissions focused driving, yes. For incredible but soulless straight line acceleration, yes. For anything involving spirited cornering? Well there's some electrified exceptions to the rule. But I'm not convinced by the relevance of linking vids of £2 million playthings. You planning to buy one?
Unless you're prepared to accept a very short range (ie: a hillclimb/motokhana specific built vehicle) current battery tech is quite heavy.
Your argument to me feels a lot like the 70's "my V8 is bigger than your V8" bravado wrapped with environmental benefits. Doesn't mean a 1970 Dodge Charger is going to beat a Caterham 7 around a racetrack or winding mountain road.
Great you've found your religion - but much like anything there are pros AND cons to everything.
The only factual good thing about petrol is you can drive for hours without stopping for long, and make a lighter vehicle for that scenario. The scenario very few people do regularly. The argument is tired and old.
Nothing else. Glorious noise, soul, spirited, these are subjective terms, I feel I'm not the one being religious here.
Re Caterham 7, see McMurtry video.
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@beeb said. I'd actually quite like a car that comes in at under 1.6 tonnes given the associated reduction of wear and tear to tyres, suspension, basically everything really. Not really an option at the mo unless I want to drop several house deposits on one.
I get that EV is the undisputed ruler of the future but the tech is not there yet to supplant ICE in its entireity. But I've also just watched several family members purchase some pricey new electrical motoring recently, so what do I know.
BMW 3 Series 1470kg, Tesla Model 3 1611kg, Toyota Camry Hybrid 1660kg. Both the heavy ones use a lot less brakes, the BEV uses no oil etc. A study would need to be done to see if this makes your point entirely invalid ut it's not looking like a big deal to me, all cars are heavy these days. Not to mention so many people rocking 2 tonne 4wd cars they just never actually use for their intention.
Here's a video of one that isn't a $2m toy but can keep up with a bunch of half million ones:
Thats all probably true, but they still work for 90% of drivers. Most people dont give two shits about cornering so long as it has apple carplay. So if we can electrify 90% of cars and leave those outliers on old ICE (and paying through the nose for the privilege...) I'd call that a win.
Yep, all the arguments for petrol are for 10% of drivers. The Model 3 corners a lot better than a lot of the sports model ICE cars out there because torque vectoring. Petrol heads will eventually have to pay the cost of twice the waste and pollution for their noise induced boners, definite win.
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