I think he was trying to admit he doesn't know shit about electric motors.

"EVs lack comparable torque to ICE" - guy in my rearview mirror

My parents had an original Prius and it was a weedy little car that made those two hippies really happy. If that was his only experience with electric cars I can see why he’d think that.

But the new ones are fucking rockets. I just don’t understand why they need all that. Can they make a cheaper one that’s got 300 horsepower?

He was trying to say that he spent too much time in a media bubble disconnected from reality.

Yep, I noticed that, you're right. And that's near-miraculous efficiency. The maker's website sez: "YASA also estimates that its all-important continuous power will be in the region of 350kW-400kW (469bhp-536bhp)." It also sez: "To achieve a 750kW short-term peak rating and a density of 59kW/kg ... " Devi'ls in the details ... The image on the 'superblondie' page shows A LOT of cooling built into whatever metal that is: https://supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/YASA-tiny-electric-motor.webp

This motor weighs 12.7 kilograms and has 1000hp. How much does a comparable motor weigh?

A dog's power output comes from its muscle mass, which for a healthy dog is about 45% of its total body weight. This gives our 28-pound dog roughly 12.57 lbs (or 5.7 kg) of muscle.

Studies of animal muscle show that the peak power output of vertebrate muscle tissue during a short, explosive burst (like a jump or the start of a sprint) is around 100 to 200 watts per kilogram of muscle.

Now we can estimate the dog's peak power:

• Low estimate: 5.7 kg of muscle x 100 W/kg = 570 watts
• High estimate: 5.7 kg of muscle x 200 W/kg = 1140 watts

Converting these figures to horsepower (1 horsepower = 746 watts):

• Low estimate: 570 W / 746 ≈ 0.76 horsepower
• High estimate: 1140 W / 746 ≈ 1.5 horsepower

So, a small 28-pound dog might be able to generate a peak power of around 0.75 to 1.5 horsepower for a very brief moment.

So this YASA motor is somewhere between 670 and 1,340 times more powerful than the dog it's being compared to in weight. That's some jaw-dropping power output.

If it's a Corgi, I would estimate the power output at .1 horsepower max. But if it's a small dog the size of a large dog, then that's something entirely different.

You can talk horsepower and dogpower all day, but I won't really understand until you convert it to bananapower, for scale.

1 dogpower obviously. /s

It's more about the batteries than the motor. You can make a motor that sucks down as much power as you want. The battery can't necessarily provide that without damage.

Having a powerful motor is nice, but you still have to power it.

Well the metric version is about 1014 PS, but honestly the difference between horsepower and pferdestärke is pretty negligible.

Sadly “745 kW” doesn’t sound as cool as “1000 horsepower.”