“Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison, have raised the question of electric vehicles’ capacity for “grunt.”
Now I’m by no means a “grunt” expert, but when it comes to performance, electric cars are far from lacking. In fact, Australian electric car owners have ranked performance as the top reason for their purchase choice.
The V8, fuel-guzzling, rev-heads, who are supposedly worried that electric cars mean they will be left driving around golf buggies, should first check out this drag race between a Tesla and a Holden V8 Supercar.
Spoiler alert: The Tesla wins, and by a fair amount…”
Source:
https://www.ecnmag.com/blog/2019/04/heres-why-electric-cars-have-plenty-grunt-oomph-and-torque