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Old 17th July 2019, 10:49   #7
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Is that 2,000 Horse Power when the Batteries are fully charged? So when it is being used it is losing power all the time ??
As far as I am aware with electric vehicles, you can have that power all the time, until the battery is depleted, at which point it wouldn't be able to supply the current, although the car will detect it's batteries are close to flat and would prevent the vehicle from being driven to prevent damage to them.

So you have 2,000 BHP available all the time, until the battery is flat. Obviously if you were demanding lots of energy from the battery constantly, like flooring it doing top speed up a very long steep hill, they would deplete quite quickly.

When you consider this thing has slightly more power than a Rimac C Two, but weighs 400kg less, it is going to be one hell of a machine.
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