Electric Maserati will do 0-62 in two seconds
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https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/maserati...
The MC20 electric variant will be a genuine electric hypercar. It looks absolutely stunning.
The MC20 electric variant will be a genuine electric hypercar. It looks absolutely stunning.
Looks really quick - I didn't think "normal" cars could go much under 2.5-3 seconds because of physics? Most tyre compounds that can be used for at least a bit of road driving, can't produce enough grip given a certain weight of car, to go any faster.
And you're not moving so "normal" aero tactics won't work either?
And you're not moving so "normal" aero tactics won't work either?
Irrotational said:
Looks really quick - I didn't think "normal" cars could go much under 2.5-3 seconds because of physics? Most tyre compounds that can be used for at least a bit of road driving, can't produce enough grip given a certain weight of car, to go any faster.
And you're not moving so "normal" aero tactics won't work either?
It’s called weight transfer. In the same way under heavy braking a modern car on performance tyres can exceed 1g deceleration. Plus modern performance tyres have a coefficient of friction greater than 1. Its how Tesla, Porsche, etc get their astonishing 0-60 acceleration times, all in a speed range where aero isn’t effective.And you're not moving so "normal" aero tactics won't work either?
Its funny, i was so disappointed (serial maserati owner) that it was a V6, it sounded awful vs previous V8 iterations, i loved the looks but wouldnt buy because of the V6.
This I would buy, if i cant have a V8 then i’ll take something completely different and thats what this is, would love to do track days in it if our ipace is anything to go by.
Obviously the marketing muting of ICE is working well..
This I would buy, if i cant have a V8 then i’ll take something completely different and thats what this is, would love to do track days in it if our ipace is anything to go by.
Obviously the marketing muting of ICE is working well..
dvs_dave said:
It’s called weight transfer. In the same way under heavy braking a modern car on performance tyres can exceed 1g deceleration. Plus modern performance tyres have a coefficient of friction greater than 1. Its how Tesla, Porsche, etc get their astonishing 0-60 acceleration times, all in a speed range where aero isn’t effective.
Ah ok - I didn't know the 2.7 secs+ range was already relying on tyre technology.It just seems an odd statistic to quote any more because it's so reliant on tyre tech, not really power level or even power-to-weight ratio.
dvs_dave said:
It’s called weight transfer.
Even with 100% weight transfer, you're still (with no aerodynamic downforce) only going to get a maximum of 1g's worth of the total vehicle weight sitting on the driven wheels.The answer is in the other part of what you said: that tyres can generate a coefficient of friction well over 1.0
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