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by Avshalom
3153 days ago
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Force, not power. Basically: for an internal combustion engine the force is the force of the explosion averaged over time, so the higher the RPM the shorter the time between explosions the higher the average force (until you get to a point where your cylinders are moving so fast the start fighting against each other). For an electric car the force is the voltage, there's no impulse to average out, it's just continuous force. Now of course in reality it's not that simple and you actually do have a torque curve, but compared to ICE it's basically a square wave. |
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It's a shame seeing people just downvote comments without doing even the most basic research to try to disprove someone.
For proof, here's the actual torque curve for a Model S. http://mihalache.free.fr/TSLA/ModelS.png And you can see very clearly the torque curve looks nothing like a square wave.
Also your assertion about internal combustion engines is wrong as well. At higher RPMs you get less duration with the valves open and you can't get as much fuel and air into the cylinder. It's not that mechanical losses are taking away that force, it's that those explosions are less powerful as you approach redline. Then once you're right up at max RPM you start having to deal with stuff like valve float where the springs pushing the valves back up can't keep up with the camshaft but that's over complicating it for a basic explanation.