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Originally Posted by L78toLT1
I'm no fan of ev's, but they are certainly capable of mind-blowing straight line performance. The low roof ev sedan that martinjlm speculates may be the next gen Camaro may well be boring and soulless, but it won't be slow.
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On that note, I don't understand how Tesla and Porsche are the only ones with really quick electric cars. Compared to a gas engine, it's a dead simple design, there isn't even a driveline to speak of, it's easy to achieve basically any 0-60 as long as the tires can put the torque down. Other aspects of the vehicle like chassis, suspension, aero can be done using the same honed in process.
Sure, there is the weight and the range problem, plus battery cooling (haha), but not much else and one can easily throw a lot of power at these. Devil in the details like with everything, but still, much-much more difficult problems have been solved with gas propulsion.
Software does not look like an issue, non-Tesla automotive software architectures are decades behind the curve in other fields, another easy target. It's like mobile phones and other earlier technologies all over again, another opportunity to start almost from scratch.