Giving an electric car many hundreds of horsepower does not have the same effect on its consumption and price as in a car with a combustion engine.
Today, it is therefore not unusual for large, heavy family cars that, thanks to the electric drive, complete the 0 to 100 sprint in well under 4 seconds, and many see this as a problem for road safety.
Stellanti’s CEO claims, however, that the nimble acceleration, on the contrary, can be an advantage from a safety point of view.
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Drive often on small roads
It was at the launch of the group’s new STLA Large platform, which supports 0 to 100 times of down to 2.0 seconds, that the company leader said that the rapid acceleration can help the driver to avoid certain dangerous situations.
– I live on a farm far out in the country in Portugal, and I often drive on the small roads around here, Tavares told Top Gear.
Tavares emphasizes that it is above all about having enough power to be able to overtake quickly and safely on a narrow road, and that it is therefore not necessarily about speed.
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Slow overtaking is dangerous
Anyone who has ever tried to overtake a slow car knows that you can easily spend far too long on the wrong side of the road. This is what Tavares believes electric cars can help avoid.
For Top Gear, Tavares brings up the example of swerving into the oncoming lane to overtake, then having to hit the brakes and abort the overtake because the car is too slow.
Tavares must have a point that a fast overtake is a safe overtake. The same argument also used to be used by Swedish Saab to justify their fastest turbo models.
Whether family cars that weigh close to 3 tons and do 0 to 100 in less than 3 seconds is beneficial for road safety is debatable, however.
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