Why is an EV's backup power less than it's driving power?

[Commander Kinsey]

They specify the power of the motors so the consumer knows how much acceleration to expect - just as you get HP ratings on petrol cars (I won't write ICE because that means In Car Entertainment, the acronym was already taken), and therefore their battery will provide that much (at least briefly - there are some shit EVs without battery cooling which have a problem going up a long steep hill, like the French Alps.)

I'm confusing nothing. When I say kWh I mean capacity. When I say kW I mean how much you can draw at one time. I do not confuse energy with power, I have a degree in physics.

If you can afford a Ford EV Truck, you can afford a big inverter.

They'd lose me as a customer.

Have you ever used a battery?

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm 47 and drive as fast as the car will go. 1/3rd of the population do. Why would you limit yourself?

[Commander Kinsey]

Jesus. You meant 3 mph per kW. Wrong twice in the same sentence.

Acceleration, safer and more fun overtaking.

[Commander Kinsey]

You were discussing (in the bit you snipped from your own text!) how speed was related to motor/battery power. Yet you wrote how distance travelled was related to battery capacity. Completely a different thing.

[Commander Kinsey]

Funny, those 18650 cells I have specify a maximum output current. Exceed that and they get hot.

[John Larkin]

If I were to switch the governor bit off, my Audi can go 156 MPH. Well, the ski rack might slow it down a tad.

I don't think I've ever driven a car over 120, and that was enough.

[Commander Kinsey]

WTF? Governors are set to 155, that's the EU agreement. So yours limits you by 1mph?

I went 140 in a rental car, it was great fun. And not enough, I was still accelerating but there were slow French drivers ahead doing about 95.

I've never owned a car that will go over 120.

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm not stupid enough to pay the daft prices. Sell them at the same price as petrol cars, then I'll buy one. They need more people like you paying through the nose to recover the design costs first.

[Commander Kinsey]

Miles per kWh is distance per capacity. Mph per kW is speed per power output. Absolutely not the same thing in any way whatsoever.

You did it again, learn how to post to multiple newsgroups. I've fixed it for you. Now grow up.

You deleted your own statement earlier, then tried to refer to it.

[Commander Kinsey]

Sounds like a crap design. Have they not heard of latching relays?

Wow! You did it again! Up there you said "3 to 4 mi/kwhr", and now you say "60MPH and 20kWhr". Learn the difference between miles and miles per hour.

Newsgroup list repaired. Again.

[Commander Kinsey]

Google groups! ROTFPMSL! Get a newsreader. It's a program you install on your computer. WTF, do you use webmail too? Are you over the age of 6?

Might have to just killfile google groups. It would raise the IQ of the group significantly.

No you're not, you're changing two units. You might aswell write your lightbulb uses two elephants per minute.

[Commander Kinsey]

In the UK we have a genuine 240V 100A 24kW supply in every home. No having to use the right amount on each half of the phase. No extra cables running around the house for the extra live. No choosing which socket has the right power for the device. Plug anything in anywhere. And they all have an earth, and they all have sleeved pins. No wonder you guys are fussy about safety. Put the plug in clumsily and you short live and neutral through your hand. Ouch.

For heavy shop (I assume you meant workshop, a shop is where you sell things) tools, we get three phase. 3 times 240V = 72kW.

ROFL! Extra thick cable for no reason. My AC is 240V 8A.

[John Larkin]

One of the car mags reported 156. There is also a report of someone who made 159 in the 3.2L V6 like mine.

This being the USA, I'm not sure what the governor is set to.

You sure are nasty.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Golly. I used to cruise at 115mph all along the autobahns. That being about as fast as my Opel Manta could manage.

130mph I have done rather too often, on quitet bits of camera free roads. I have been driven at 145mph (indicated) in a race tuned Rover 3500...when hitchiking in the 1970s.

Its fine, provided other road users are used to it. You simply dare not do it (even in Germany) in heavyish traffic because people WILL pull out in front of you. Realistically 30mph faster than what you are overtaking is a limit

[Su Nombre]

Degrees are meaningless.

For example, Tony Fauci has a Doctor of Medicine degree. Look at the f****ng mess he made in the last two years.

[Carlos E.R.]

Please change then to a proper Usenet compliant tool, because you are making hard to follow your posts for those people that happen to be reading at uk.d-i-y or alt.home.repair. It is not about your comfort, but that of other people.

On the other hand, it is true that a fair number of people filter out all posts coming from Google Group posters. You will not know about them, of course.