Electric motors don’t have torque curves. It’s all available right away. As a kid I remember reading in Wired about an electric car scene in California where they had to learn things the hard way and one guy’s maiden voyage ended still in his driveway with the backend split in two.

This is essentially the "area under the curve" argument. But it's been polluted to absurdum by Internet fanboys with an agenda so not everyone thinks EVs are some magical thing that don't abide by the laws of physics.

No amount of fanboy screeching is going to change the fact that it's only 200hp. The 500+HP LS crate motor and transmission combo (i.e. what this is being cross shopped against) are going to make more than that from ~2500rpm on up.

If you graph power available at a given output RPM with an electric motor you get a line. With an ICE you get an upward and then tapering off curve. When you add transmission gears to the ICE it's a series of essentially overlapping saw teeth except on the first gear where it goes all the way down to whatever power you make at 1500-2000rpm (so like a little under 100hp for a ~500hp engine, probably like 30hp for an ICE that makes ~200hp stock)

When comparing to cars of about the same horsepower the ICEEVis gonna win every time. Even if the areas are approx. equal you don't have to pull back to shift (even CVTs "shift", it's for longevity reasons) and the ICE is probably not geared deep enough for best initial acceleration (though for "modern" power levels both cars have more than enough to roast the tires).

Compared to a bone stock 70s/80s car that made 200-250hp from the factory this will 200hp EV will be a riot. But that's not what it's being compared against.

And frankly I think it's absolutely moronic that they make you use their 4spd transmission. There are tons and tons and tons of cars out there that either still have the original transmission or someone swapped an SBC into them in 19-whatever. Being able to just replace the engine would make the swap a ton more accessible because you don't have to also add transmission mounting, controls, driveshaft, etc. to the list.

Basically this is cool but I think it's too expensive for the specs it has.