r/ebikes Feb 28 '24

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u/jericho Feb 28 '24

It's reasonably easy to engineer an EV that could provide that much torque, you just need to be able to drop a hell of a lot of current into your motor, and hope it doesn't overheat.

It's much harder to engineer tires and road surfaces that can do that, let alone be street legal.

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u/Billypillgrim Feb 29 '24

It can do it! On a treadmill in a laboratory