excellent analogy on this car, COMFORT-charging curve-and route planing, this is all that is necessary for normal family road tripping, AND purchasing a used one, WIN WIN WIN
With a nice flat charging curve it really makes no sense to charger hop and try to game it down to rolling into chargers at single digit SOC. It cost all of those teams time gaming the charging hops. Any leg you have to limp you are loosing way more than sitting at a charger for a few more minutes. The only leg you really want to game it is that last leg into Boston. Any gas already in the tank is just that much less charging you have to do at the stop. Flat charging curve would make this kind of travel lazy and fast. The bottom line is most people would be breaking this trip up into single day trips, stop at a hotel, rinse and repeat. All of these cars other than the Old MS could have done that and covered the miles needed in a day. I don't think there was a car in this race that couldn't accomplish that within a reasonable amount of time. I would like to see what the average EV class would do in a similar race to see how much more time than the "supercars" from the Surge.
excellent analogy on this car, COMFORT-charging curve-and route planing, this is all that is necessary for normal family road tripping, AND purchasing a used one, WIN WIN WIN
The race made for an interesting story but I agree with the EQS trip style.
With a nice flat charging curve it really makes no sense to charger hop and try to game it down to rolling into chargers at single digit SOC. It cost all of those teams time gaming the charging hops. Any leg you have to limp you are loosing way more than sitting at a charger for a few more minutes. The only leg you really want to game it is that last leg into Boston. Any gas already in the tank is just that much less charging you have to do at the stop. Flat charging curve would make this kind of travel lazy and fast.
The bottom line is most people would be breaking this trip up into single day trips, stop at a hotel, rinse and repeat. All of these cars other than the Old MS could have done that and covered the miles needed in a day. I don't think there was a car in this race that couldn't accomplish that within a reasonable amount of time.
I would like to see what the average EV class would do in a similar race to see how much more time than the "supercars" from the Surge.
The BMW is a hina Market designed Car , max interior Luxury
The EQ S os Autobahn proof, fit for 100 mph, so they they went for the Blop-Design