text: This statement lacks understanding of how electric (and IC engines work). Electric motors usually generate much more torque at 0 speed than an ICE which requires high rpms to produce sufficient power to overcome its own piston compression requirements (remember each piston is only producing power about 25% of the time, and that power stroke needs to power the remaining compression, injection and exhaust strokes) ergo an ICE engine tends to hit its peak torque towards its mid level revs and then needs a gearbox to convert those ~3000rpms into  1 rpm at the wheel. (Diesels tend to have a torque curve that continues to rise with rpms)  Whereas an electric motor generates instant torque at starting thus no need to reduce rpms to wheels, and the rotating magnetic field eventually brakes the amount of current into the stator magnets thus reducing the torque once the rotor is turning. But ultimately the stall torque load of most electric motors is still higher than peak torque in an ICE.