Whenever I hear people talk about acceleration in electric cars, they talk about the instant torque. I think I have an okay understanding of what torque is, but what does it mean for it to be “instant “?
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When you hear about a cars horse power or torque number in a commercials it’s talking about its peak. When you step on the gas, it doesn’t always produce that number advertised. For example, my trucks peak torque is 600 ft pounds but that’s only at around 1600-2000 rpm. Higher or lower than that on the tachometer and it’s making significantly less power than that. You can look up your cars year make and model torque curve on google and you’ll see a graph. A combustion vehicles graph is literally a curved line. If you look at an electric cars torque graph, it will just be a block, or a square because you get full torque everywhere in the rev range.
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