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An EV is just so goddam smooth and silent to drive compared to an ICE. I feel like I'm driving an absolute luxury car, compared to my old ICE car, that was with leather cabin, and had a 2.2 liter engine. A higher mid range car here.
But the EV is just a so much better experience to drive. We've had it for almost a year now, and I still enjoy that sense of luxury, and also something that is harder to describe, but it's like it drives with confidence, in a way I've never experienced with an ICE car. I guess it has to do with all the power being available in an instant, no matter what speed you drive.
I know now why people say, when you have had an electric, you will never go back.
It's the acceleration for me. It's like having a sports car the size of a truck.
The ID.4 isn't amazing in acceleration it's only 204 hp. But that's still enough to make it faster than our old Ice car that was 160 hp.
In European terms that makes it go 0-100 km/t in 8,5 sec. That's less than half a second faster than the old ICE car.
BUT, the acceleration is always instantly ready, and it's so quit I barely hear it inside the car.
We could have had a car that goes from 0-100 in less than 5 seconds for the same price, but we chose not to, for 2 reasons, number one I've seen neighbors have stupid things happen because they accelerated too quickly, like a small garden trailer turning over for going too fast through a roundabout. And quite frankly, I know myself well enough to know that I would have a very hard time not to give it a bit of pedal occasionally. The 2nd is that insurance on those faster cars is twice the insurance of our more moderate car.
But despite that, I agree that the acceleration is cool, because it's always ready, it's plenty fast IMO, and it quiet.
AND I also noticed that a bit of acceleration doesn't kill the economy nearly as much as it does in an ICE car. The efficiency when accelerating is way better.
I think it's because it reacts to the controls soo much faster.
In an ICE vehicle, especially with sticks shift, you're pushing and pulling all these gears and levers and pedals to control a transmission connected to an engine, or a brake, which will then attempt to produce the revolutions that you requested.
In an EV, it just does it. It's like the pedal is a direct control of the engine, which is connected directly to the wheels, which always has enough torque to carry out your request, even braking. Technically it still has a transmission etc., but it doesn't cause a delay like conventional transmissions.
In everyday driving, this shows most clearly when you're starting from a complete stop. You can find soo many more openings in traffic, when you trust you car to accelerate efficiently to merge into the traffic fluidly without getting in the way or getting into any risk when doing it.
I've been driving an ICE car lately for unrelated reasons, and it's definitely not a backstep you'll want to take. It feels like controlling a steam driven submarine using only pressure valves to steer through a mine field.
The pedal does not directly control the motor, it inputs a TPS to prevent burnouts. Transmissions don't cause a delay, the progressive torque curve of ICE makes multi speed transmissions necessary. The instant power of EVs is one reason Tesla owners have the highest crash rates.
Please, please, please don't do that. Cars are dangerous things and when traffic is so close that you're looking for openings, it is too congested to get in there. Safety should be your first priority and that means you're looking for openings that even a car with a tiny little one liter engine it has more than enough space to get in. If there isn't a big gap, just sit back and wait for one, It's a sign that your city needs more roads. Not a little more roads like the people say one more lane, a lot more lanes. Generally by the time people are asking for one more lane, they need five times as many lanes. Yes, that's expensive, maybe you should look into public transit instead.
Great safely folks. I've lost enough friends to drivers who were in a hurry. Please don't add another one to that list.
More lanes doesn't solve anything. It only increases traffic by induced demand.
What really helps to accommodate increasing traffic is to lower the speed limit, so more cars can fit in the same lane.
If you get induced demand that means your city is way behind in getting people where they want to be. If people didn't want to go places they would live in remote locations. Instead they live in cities because of the options.
Once again, maybe you should build better transit. Don't use induced demand as an excuse to not let people get places.
Yes, I have this exact feeling the most when I'm stopped completely at a bigger road I drive into. It's just so damned easy and smooth compared to an ICE car.