it's called inrush current

any motor draws up to 10x the inrush current to break the inertia of a dead stop

once the motor is spinning, it only needs alittle current

@Grok you cant do that even when driving auto, lol

@ManAnimal There is a sweet spot of efficiency in every electric motor, you are loosing energy before or past that point

read the greentext or whatever on the dude who jacked off at 90mph

yyup

Gears are also a power wasters though

well you are trading torqure for speed

best to run the motor at constant speed

tesla model 3 top speed is 263kmhr

batteries are mainly too heavy to run trucks as well

and change the ratio of rotation delivered to the axel

Fun fact: many huge robotic arms also have "gears"
Or rather two types of motors connected via common differential
One motor is an AC, another is DC
One starts moving an arm, another keeps it moving

yeah, that is one way to do it . another is usingg a capacitor

Called Motor-Generators

im not an electrical engineer but i study materials engineering

@Uksio keel.

almost certain teslas don't have gears that switch

These complicated setups are being replaced by a hybrid AC/DC motors that can do all that by themselves now

So differential coupling is a bit outdated now

did alot of retrofits of those type of units swapping the starter motor for a Variable Freq Drive

@Krisemann the only thing I remember is crystal structure and how the different ones form under different temps and pressures

VFDs are typically even better than MGs

@Jack of Trades yeah like iron FCC and BCC etc

and always 'better' in terms of efficency

https://c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/2018/10/Tesla-Model-3-Motor-Gearbox.png

but i'd take the drop in efficency to be able to 'drive' and EV

yeah it has a reduction gear

> one gear hahaha
> two gear hahaha

but it doesn't like go frmo gear 1 ro gear 2

differential

not a transmission

@Krisemann yeah plus some other stuff. I had the basic materials class, then a lot of stuff related to silicon in specific

Differential transmissions are also a thing

@Uksio so a mechanical part can do 1 million miles, but their argument is that they dont have a lot of mechanical parts so mmuh EV good

so not really a 'gear' in the sense we normally use it

@Jack of Trades yeah

electronics don't have that kind of reliability

you can only cycle a transistor so many times

well, they can