Quote Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Heat mitigation is a much larger concern with an ICE making lots of power. An ICE will put approximately 30% of it's potential energy into forward momentum with much of the balance being lost to heat as well as other factors. Teslas in particular put more like 90% or more of their energy into forward momentum. This means that next to zero is lost to heat so even if you double a number that is nearly zero... you probably get the point.
True, but ICE vehicles are built with larger cooling systems in place since they so generate much more heat. But at 130mph, there's a metric fuckton of air moving through the radiator on my F150, and around the trans/diffs/etc.
Now I've never actually inspected a tesla or anything, but I would assume that it's a relatively flat bottom, so not much moving around down there, and has a small radiator stuffed somewhere to account for cooling the battery and whatever control systems are in there. I would ASSUME that the discharge rate needed to propel the vehicle would heat the pack up a bit. Same for running back to back launches in Ludacris mode