There is a poster in the Pelican parts forum named
Bill Verburg that often brings up the weight issues of larger wheels expressed as a loss of torque, and the issues of larger diameter wheel/tire combinations lowering acceleration times.
This is one of many examples:
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/pors...l#post10155087
A second example - more charts on page-2
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/pors...l-choices.html
The example shown on the first page of this thread as I read it has wider wheels, this would account for higher rolling resistance and higher drag.
All this is counter intuitive, as marketing directs us to the larger heavier wider wheels as being better performance, when in fact it is often not. At least not from an engineer's viewpoint of maximizing efficiency.
A search on Bill's name and the phrase "torque"
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/sear...rchid=17996103