Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2600:1004:B12D:E814:F47E:9FB8:DFAB:8699-20180713202417/@comment-35745775-20180715054847

Bkuave wrote: You’ll get more speed with taller gears no matter the torque from an ICE or an electric motor. This is not true, because the max speed you are interested in is the max speed of the car. Max speed is determined by max power output of the engine compared to the sum of all resistances/losses (e.g. wind resistance, rolling resistance etc.). When max power output equals the sum of all losses/resisances then you have achieved max speed and no other gearing can make the car go faster - that is called physics. A car vehicle engineer (like me) would choose the tallest gear to achieve max speed. An ICE needs lower gears too, an electric motor doesn‘t.