"China's regulators have decided that cars might be getting a bit too frisky for public streets. No, they're not limiting how fast a car can go, but they are proposing limiting just how fast the cars get up to highway speeds with each new drive. According to CarNewsChina, the proposed regulation would limit cars, regardless of powertrain, to a default five second zero-to-60-mph sprint."
"After each power on/ignition of a passenger vehicle[...], the vehicle should be in a state where the 100 km/h acceleration time is not less than 5 seconds. A better way to think of this tech might be the auto-start-stop feature of a gas car. Basically, every time you start a new drive, the car would default to the performance-bottlenecked setting. Drivers will then need to toggle on the faster performance in order to break that five-second 0-60 MPH barrier."
Regulators in China propose that passenger vehicles default to a reduced acceleration mode after every power-on, limiting 0–60 mph/100 km/h acceleration to no faster than five seconds. The default restriction would apply to all powertrains, including electric vehicles and internal combustion cars, and would require drivers to manually activate a higher-performance mode for faster acceleration. The measure aims particularly at high-performance EVs with instantaneous torque but would cover legacy vehicles as well. The proposal is paired with broader safety measures such as pedal misapplication detection, torque spike limiting, and automatic power cuts on sudden speed changes.
Read at insideevs.com
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