On: You don't need an EV to cut your carbon emissions ...

[tenthirtyam]

Hmm. But over a fixed distance, the overall energy expenditure scales as v^2 (for v^3 power regime). Double the speed implies octuple (?) the power but only for half the time implies quadruple the energy spend.

Not invalidating your point, but just a minor adjustment. :)

[tagoregrtst → tenthirtyam]

I love it :)

Never considered that point but, as a rebuttal, consider that trip time vs speed is extremely non linear and stochastic (due to traffic, lights, etc).

In my experience you have drive much faster than x% to increase your average speed x% and it doesn't appear to be a linear scaling at all.

Of course, you shouldn't be doing 80 in urban roads