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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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    10 days ago

    The torque off the start is so much higher in EVs vs. ICE. I’m not sure from u/blindbunny 's post if they’ve ridden an EV motorcyle. I’m pretty sure they haven’t owned one. They sound like an ICE shill. My bicycle’s torque off the start is pretty low, and dependent on this old school “neuro-musculo-skeletal” system. It’s kinda jankety, but I’m too cheap to upgrade.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Many motorcycles (not bicycles, those are irrelevant to the comparison) already have more torque off the line than the available traction can handle, so that benefit from electric motors is less critical. The wear is a concern because motorcycles are already more sensitive to tire wear than cars, and simply switching to a harder compound to account for the extra weight has other ramifications that are far less severe in electric cars.

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        10 days ago

        Fair. I’ve been comparing ICE vs EV cars wrt tire wear. And some folks, depending on driving style, find that the tires wear faster on EVs. Slow off the line should moderate that.

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      10 days ago

      I wish I was a shill I’d probably have more money to buy more motorcycles. I’ve rode a Surron bee? and a Stark VARG and I kinda like how quite they are especially dual sporting. But it takes almost half a day to charge the Stark VARG and the longest I’ve rode a Surron was about ~20 miles before it needed to charge.