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I would like to point out that in certain scenarios people are not very smart. For eg. Many car enthusiasts who care about speed and 0-60 will still look down on EVs despite EVs being ridiculously fast and cheap to attain those metrics. 40k EV is faster than 150k Porsche. But these guys will never adopt it.

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that's not mostly what car enthusiasts care about, especially somebody buying a 150k porsche; they care about handling and road feel and a fat pig of an EV will never match a lighter car (well set up) on that; you can't beat physics when you're slinging that much weight; even set up as well as can be, a 5000lb taycan doesn't come close to the handling feel of a 3250lb 911.

A BMW i3 weighs about 3000 lbs. They’re mostly fiberglass and have a small battery. The center of gravity is probably comparable to the 911 even though it’s tall and goofy looking (all the weight is in the battery, under the seats).

The tire geometry causes a bit of oversteering, but they generally corner well, etc.

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