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Do You Really Need EV-Specific Tires? | Tire Rack
Road Trip posted this excellent summary in the iX forum that is a great overview of tire selection for EV’s, and how those choices impact performance and efficiency
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This also got me thinking about our discussions over here about different OEM tire specs.
deutsch100 you seem to be the king of the efficiency heap for m60’s (!) curious what tires/rims you’ve got? I’m running the 20” 940M wheels with Hankook Ventus S1 AS tires. |
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My rims are 20" Bicolor JetBl 940M AS |
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Duly noted! Might need to give those a go when my Hankook’s wear out. Was wondering what else might be behind your stellar range, perhaps they secretly gave you a Neue Klasse battery pack without telling you
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I also got many 400 mile range trips in my iX too. And my i3S...I would get close to 150 miles on that tiny battery. EVs love me |
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Yeah. I am in Calabasas, which is in western L.A. County. Dec, Jan and Feb...we have many cold mornings (30s & 40s F), but our daytime highs are usually quite warm, if not brutally hot (triple digits are common for several months cumulatively each year).
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I'm in the Los Angeles area too and plan to precondition all the time in the summer. It gets to 100 degrees F here sometimes so the preconditioning will probably be important to cool down that battery in the summer.
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