To our resident scientists.
It's clear that the new Electric cars need some new terminology, measurement methodologies, and displaying of available information.
This thread is a gathering place for all those "we need to come up with a term for X because this is all new in an EV" and the "they should have done this cause it's an EV" and "Why didn't they show us X because it's an EV and all that data is there and we want to compare"
This is how an EV does not fit into the "standardized tests" developed for ICEs over the last century.
Examples:
Dan Neil
CapitalistOppressor
loganss
It's clear that the new Electric cars need some new terminology, measurement methodologies, and displaying of available information.
This thread is a gathering place for all those "we need to come up with a term for X because this is all new in an EV" and the "they should have done this cause it's an EV" and "Why didn't they show us X because it's an EV and all that data is there and we want to compare"
This is how an EV does not fit into the "standardized tests" developed for ICEs over the last century.
Examples:
Dan Neil
We currently don't have a good term for EVs' distinctive concentration of mass, with batteries slung low as possible and centroid to the vehicle. While traction batteries are heavy, and mass is bad for acceleration and agility, the lower center-of-gravity often compensates with higher levels of cornering, especially when a car wears rubber like the Signature Performance edition's sticky 21-inch summer tires. How about "corner-levering mass"?
CapitalistOppressor
...Plus, as stated in the test notes there are driving techniques you can use with an ICE vehicle that you can't with an electric which improve the skid pad results. Still though, modulating the engine to help you around turns is a real life technique used in races, so the skid pad results of MSP are applicable.
loganss
Wish they would have put the mileage of the car and a shot of their energy usage graph from the screen. ....