How well do electric cars do in bumper to bumper traffic like we see in the evacuations in Florida?
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Combustion cars are pretty bad at very low speeds, fuel efficiency sucks when you’re using the lowest gears. Electric motors don’t have this problem: they are roughly equally efficient at almost all speeds.
In bumper to bumper traffic this means that electric cars are “more efficient” than combustion cars, although the combustion car may be able to run for longer since fuel is very energy dense as opposed to batteries.
At higher speeds, combustion cars improve their fuel consumption because the motor is built for those kinds of situations. EVs, however, last less because, although their motor doesn’t get worse, aerodynamics and rolling resistance get in the way, extracting energy out of the car.
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