So, do we believe in practice it's actually greater than 155?
The torque will be fine. Numbers are different at different rpms and the listed numbers are maximum. Electric motors produce far more torque at very low rpms than ice.
Of course it will be. I've been just as curious about the actual torque # but calculating anything looked like speculation.
Where is the # coming from?
Where are these ICE #s coming from?
Cool find, so for the lazy like me, that link says the 2.5 is contributing "156-hp, 136 lb.-ft. (184 Nm)" and was paired with a "106-hp electric drive motor for a surprisingly satisfying combined peak output of 191 hp. "
I don’t know where you are getting this from. 1kWh is the “contained energy”, also equivalent to 3600 kJ.
Joules and watt hours can both describe capacity, but nobody uses joules to describe electric vehicle batteries (or heck any batteries even my lawn mower), its almost always watt hours.
Yeah. Wh is commonly usually for describing battery capacity’s becuase it is easier to visualize (even though there are redundant units in it). I wasn’t arguing that. But In the post I quoted he was claiming that 60 kW is the battery capacity “contained energy” which doesn’t make sense whatsoever. As he was trying to do a calculation. That’s what I was trying to point out
I freely admit know little to nothing about electricity! The 60kw was 1000w over 60 minutes being 60000 watts. Or does 1kwh mean its only able to release 1kw over one hour? Like I said I know little to nothing about this side of things.
Sounds like the SC has a beautiful torque curve. Too bad it’s $15k more than a hybrid Maverick and $10k more than an XL ecoboost with awd.Cool find, so for the lazy like me, that link says the 2.5 is contributing "156-hp, 136 lb.-ft. (184 Nm)" and was paired with a "106-hp electric drive motor for a surprisingly satisfying combined peak output of 191 hp. "
So only 35hp and 19ftlbs at higher RPMs where the ICE peak is? Here's a typical torque curve of an electric motor:
I think the confusion is that if I remember right, when they say that an electric motor is rated for whatever power, they are just talking about a theoretical possibility of what it could produce before the windings become a giant blob of melted copper, lol!
The actual power would be limited by the current that the battery and rest of the system can handle, along with any smoothing algorithms that also artificially reduce the torque the electric motor is providing so it doesn't damage anything (like on the BMW i3 they had to soften it as the instant torque otherwise was causing bolts to sheer) and since its a itsy bitsy battery they probably tune it for whatever the most efficient load is. Hence the weak contribution.
Easiest would be not to even worry about it that much, and just go drive an Escape hybrid and see how it feels and then compare that to an Ecoboost hybrid. Even though people hype on about how torquey electric motors are, chances are pretty high that the Ecoboost will feel a lot torquier when punching it even at a lowly 2K rpm. For example, I'm not sure what the ecoboost is, but the 2.5T smartstream in the Santa Cruz they were bragging about how it makes 311ftlbs of torque at 1,650rpm which is going to be way more than the combined torque of the Maverick hybrid. And ditto I recently drove around a BMW i3 which is pure electric, and the torque off the line was nothing compared to our Corvette that is a mere naturally aspirated engine. So what is "fine" or not will all just be up to butt-feel and what you are accustomed to.
