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Originally Posted by MadisonMPG
Diesel's weight is outweighed by it's torque and quality.
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Don't know enough to comment on that, but it's beside the point. What we were discussing was replacing an existing IC engine with batteries. Now if you have a car with two IC engine options that give the same power & performance, the diesel will almost certainly weigh as much, probably more, than the equivalent gasoline one, no?
So if Tesla can replace the Lotus gasoline engine with a battery pack that gives X range, etc, then it seems reasonable to suppose that VW could replace the diesel in their 1L car with batteries giving similar range, no?