Traction with low rolling resistance tires?

[stevek]

I've never had LRR tires before, but hear stories of poor traction. In the Bolt specifically, I read Chevy had to limit torque to avoid spinning the wheels. So, how good or bad is traction with these things? What about in wet conditions?

 

[DucRider]

Since 100% torque is available from near 0 rpm, ALL EV's need to limit torque at low RPM's.
LRR A/S tires as a class will have a little less traction than traditional A/S tires. There is always a trade off between wet, dry, snow, road noise, tire life, efficiency, etc.
How much you like or dislike a tire will be greatly influenced by how you value each of the attributes. If wet weather performance is the most important factor, there are tires developed specifically for those conditions, but you will trade off performance in one or more other categories.

Since the Bolt is not yet shipping to the public, not really any information on the specific tire/vehicle combination and how they perform together.

 

[Zoomit]

A traditional all season tire that trades away low rolling resistance for better handling or wet traction might loose 4% range (10 miles down to 228 mi). Using a high performance summer tire might reduce range by 8% (20 miles down 218 miles). These are ballpark numbers, but non-LRR tires could certainly be a reasonable tradeoff if you don't need all the range.

 

[ssspinball]

A FWD car is going to somewhat easily spin the drive wheels no matter what the tire compound is, because weight shifts backwards off the front wheels when you accelerate.

I have not found my LRR tires to have noticeably different traction around curves. I'm driving a i3 so acceleration does not have any wheel slippage because 1) RWD and 2) the throttle curve is programmed by BMW to be slightly gradual instead of 100%.