The battery and motor specified will only run 4 minutes on a charge. Maybe that’s the ticket- most power is used during acceleration which only takes a couple of minutes, so keeping the weight down makes sense.
Makes sense. Diesels traditionally have slower acceleration, so a powerful boost from an electric motor will help alleviate that symptom......as well as mitigate the greater fuel consumption required at the standing start...........
200v at 5.5 amp hours (about 160 D cells) is slightly over a kilowatt hour.
Either the 16 or 23 kilowatt power usage would drain it completely in 3 to 4 minutes, however the onboard controller protects the battery life by limiting drain to about 33% of max. Heat generation is intense at those currents (100 amps thru D cells) and the controller measures temp to limit the heat.
Figure ONE minute or less.