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Goz3rr on Nov 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesla Cybertruck

>where an ICE has a pretty fixed resistance.

That's what the gearbox is for

arghwhat on Nov 22, 2019 [–]

Apart from inertia on initial clutch-in, there are diminishing returns from increasing the gear ratio when it comes to compression losses.

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