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The Veyron (first petrol production car to crack 400km/h) was famously quoted by Top Gear that its tires would only last 12 minutes at top speed, which was OK, because the 100L fuel tank would be empty in just 9 minutes.

That the Nevera can do 5 minutes with 'only' 120kWh is actually amazing. Petrol has an energy density of 12200Wh/kg. At 0.79kg/l, the Veron had a total capacity of 963kWh. That's 8 Times more energy, yet still less than 2 times the range.

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Maybe the'll meet in the middle considering both Bugatti and Rimac are now part of the same company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Rimac

In the early 2000s my old Citroën XM could reach its book top speed of 147mph, but would not be able to do 147 miles at that speed because its 80-litre fuel tank would run out at 141 miles.

MPG went rapidly south in the second half of the rev counter.

For a while, IIRC back in the '90s, Montana had no speed limit on some roads. Though they did say if you were in the triple digits you were probably likely to get a ticket. I drove it several times during that, and the big limit was "How fast can I go and still make it to the next gas station?" It was a beautiful drive.

They added the speed limit back (again IIRC) because someone got several tickets and sued saying (along the lines of) "there's no way I can tell if I'm going too fast without the speed limit".

Thanks for doing the math. I was wondering exactly this, remembering that the Veyron didn't last that long either.

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