With a strangled electrical infrastructure in this country, I am very worried what will happen once millions of these electric cars start getting plugged into the “grid”. Unless more homes go to solar energy or other sources to supplement their increased demand for electricity, we are going to have very frequent rolling black outs. The only other alternative is building more sites to produce energy, but with all the stringent governmental requirements that seems unlikely. With that said, I don’t think that electric cars will be the “silver bullet” when it comes to our energy problems, but with various other forums I think it’s a step in the right direction.
Its not that they have “SOME” TQ, it’s that they have peak TQ at 0-1 rpm, not like an internal combustion engine that makes peak TQ around 4,000-6,000 rpm. So you have full power the second you step on the petal.