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Originally Posted by evolutionmovement
Are we arguing the benefits of Elise vs. Corvette or talking about why there's the weight difference? I thought it was the latter.
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Me too. So where is the weight difference - half a ton or so - coming from if not the bigger drivetrain?
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The Corvette's larger, flatter torque curve make it a far faster car in practice. The Toyota engine in the Lotus is known for being torque deficient. on an auto-X track, on the other hand...
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Which is why the handling matters more, IMHO, than sheer power, at least for the majority who'll be driving on roads rather than racetracks. Plenty of twisty roads around here where you can use reasonable sports-car handling, not many where you can really use a top speed over 100 or so - and being that this is Nevada, most of the roads where you could open the throttle a bit without undue risk of traffic cops tend to be occupied by cows :-)
But this is all drifting away from the original question, which was how much of a Corvette's weight could be replaced by batteries for an electric conversion. After all, we know that a similar Lotus conversion works quite well. So how about a Tesla-vette?