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Originally Posted by The Toecutter
Considering this thing weighs about 4,000 lbs, the efficiency it gets is damn impressive. If it had half the mass and cut drag another 20%, 100 Wh/mile would be possible. Then they'd be able to strip all the luxury electronics crap and make an affordable sub $25,000 200+ mile range EV sedan that the lower middle class could comfortably afford.
Mercedes could have done something like this during the 1970s fuel crisis and used a 5-cylinder 3L turbodiesel to get 70+ mpg highway, but they kept this knowledge shelved and away from production cars all these decades. The C111-III proves it.
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I see where you are coming from, I'm not sure who takes responsibility for the way things are, western culture?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26278324
https://group-media.mercedes-benz.co...ml?oid=9913283
Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/n...al-626-mile-ev
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Last edited by kach22i; 07-03-2022 at 02:06 PM..
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