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0 pointsRosanaAnaDana2y ago0 comments

Idk what the 0-60 of my leaf is but I beat every one off the line when I want to. It makes me far more comfortable on the freeway to get all the power I want on demand to quickly and safely make a maneuver. I would never have considered it before owning an EV, but now that I have one, I'll definitely be considerate of it in my next EV purchase.

Previously I had only had crappy used ICE vehicles, and the acceleration was so bad it had never occurred to me how much better driving could be with good acceleration. I probably wouldn't include it in my calculus for an ICE vehicle, but I'll probably never purchase another ICE vehicle either.

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ricardobeat2y ago

Depends on the year, it used to be around 11s, latest models brought it down to 8-7 seconds.

Normal ICE cars are in the 12-18s range, sometimes <10s but you’d look like a mad man revving your engine high enough to achieve that.

5s is ridiculously fast and that kind of acceleration should _never_ be used in the middle of traffic or city roads.

fiddlerwoaroof2y ago

My Tesla’s 0-60 makes a huge difference in normal driving, because the acceleration profile at low speeds is a lot more “do the right thing now”. Driving my minivan or other ICE cars feels laggy to me now.

RosanaAnaDanaOP2y ago

This is the sense I was trying to communicate.

I'm not flooring it, but when I make a speed adjustment, it happens 'right away'. There is no delay. Its immediate.

AtlasBarfed2y ago

A lot of that is the automatic transmission in ICE drivetrains. a manual transmission delivers immediate acceleration but still not as good as a Tesla

a_t482y ago

I drive a Jetta GLI, it’s 6.1 (edit - 6.4?) seconds - fairly fast but not a fancy sports car, no obnoxious reviving required. It’s a four cylinder, too!

jtc3312y ago

You might want to check your facts. The 2022 Honda Odyssey minivan (not a small vehicle) has 0-60 of 6.5s.

ricardobeat2y ago

I looked it up and that car has a 3.4 V6 engine with 280HP. Hardly a “normal” car, at least outside the US, this is entering sports car territory.

quicklime2y ago

The Nissan Leaf has an official 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.9 seconds, while the Leaf e+ achieves a sprint time of 6.9 seconds.

This is easily achievable by many ICE cars. You can get a Toyota Corolla that matches this (and I’m not talking about the GR Corolla).

KennyBlanken2y ago

6.5 seconds used to be pretty fast, thirty years ago.

Now nearly every mainstream sedan or minivan with a V6 will do that, often better.

theshrike792y ago

All EVs have crazy fast 0-20mph or 0-30mph speeds because you can just floor it and get instant torque without resorting to launch control modes.

Even my older model Ioniq is fast enough off the lights to trigger people with German ICE cars into thinking I'm trying to "beat" them somehow. Even though I just pressed down the accelerator to get up to speed in a prompt manner.

KennyBlanken2y ago

> I beat every one off the line when I want to.

It's easy to win a race when nobody else is racing.

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ricardobeat2y ago

Depends on the year, it used to be around 11s, latest models brought it down to 8-7 seconds.

Normal ICE cars are in the 12-18s range, sometimes <10s but you’d look like a mad man revving your engine high enough to achieve that.

5s is ridiculously fast and that kind of acceleration should _never_ be used in the middle of traffic or city roads.

fiddlerwoaroof2y ago

RosanaAnaDanaOP2y ago

This is the sense I was trying to communicate.

I'm not flooring it, but when I make a speed adjustment, it happens 'right away'. There is no delay. Its immediate.

AtlasBarfed2y ago

A lot of that is the automatic transmission in ICE drivetrains. a manual transmission delivers immediate acceleration but still not as good as a Tesla

a_t482y ago

I drive a Jetta GLI, it’s 6.1 (edit - 6.4?) seconds - fairly fast but not a fancy sports car, no obnoxious reviving required. It’s a four cylinder, too!

jtc3312y ago

You might want to check your facts. The 2022 Honda Odyssey minivan (not a small vehicle) has 0-60 of 6.5s.

ricardobeat2y ago

I looked it up and that car has a 3.4 V6 engine with 280HP. Hardly a “normal” car, at least outside the US, this is entering sports car territory.

quicklime2y ago

The Nissan Leaf has an official 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.9 seconds, while the Leaf e+ achieves a sprint time of 6.9 seconds.

This is easily achievable by many ICE cars. You can get a Toyota Corolla that matches this (and I’m not talking about the GR Corolla).

KennyBlanken2y ago

6.5 seconds used to be pretty fast, thirty years ago.

Now nearly every mainstream sedan or minivan with a V6 will do that, often better.

theshrike792y ago

All EVs have crazy fast 0-20mph or 0-30mph speeds because you can just floor it and get instant torque without resorting to launch control modes.

KennyBlanken2y ago

> I beat every one off the line when I want to.

It's easy to win a race when nobody else is racing.

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