Picture the two most stubborn numbers in the entire electric vehicle industry: range and power. Every automaker on earth is chasing both at once, and almost every engineering decision that improves one quietly punishes the other. A bigger battery buys you range but adds weight, which eats power and handling. A more powerful motor wins a stoplight but drains the pack faster. It is, in plain terms, a tug-of-war that has never been fully won — not by Tesla, not by Mercedes-Benz,