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Originally Posted by raptor5244
In an automatic it would just downshift based on current speed. In a manual, well you know the drill. I think that is one of the biggest advantages of the EV. It always feels like it is in the best gear so to speak.
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My question was about how often you actually use maximum acceleration. Not what that acceleration could theoretically be (trust me, I have a pretty good handling on that part), or even how often you
could use it all.
Maybe because this topic had been on my mind yesterday, I actually timed a roughly 10 to 60 run on a stretch of road that I drive to about the same performance every time no matter what car I'm in at the time. 10 to 60 was somewhere between 8 and 9 seconds, and only that much flat ran away from traffic in the other lane. What I'm getting from that is that 0 to 60 in the two's or even just the three's is so far removed from any sane street driving as to be moot; bragging rights only. Well, almost moot . . . it might be enough more car that I'd occasionally put my 10 to 60 times down in the sevens.
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