Not every car buyer wants a large sedan. If you’re building compacts, you can’t go much longer than Bolt or ID.3

These cars started out a an Ad depicting available colors and were only launched after many people asked VW if they could purchase one like that.

It’s actually a lot harder than you think it is, because of the batteries. They need a lot of space, and if your car is short you need height to pack them.

On the Nürburgring it only narrowly beat the 1983 1000kms pole time, so your assumption of Group C cars on modern tires beating it seems to be correct.

After Heidfelds run they decided that the cars have gotten too fast and are only allowed exhibition runs, why that isn’t valid for non F1 cars i don’t know.

Hillclimbing is pretty much the perfect discipline to show off electric tech as the small range needed for one run eliminates the weight disadvantage, but the image of electric domination in Hillclimbing is very distorted by the fact that there are no other chassis built with similar concept and design quality to the…

Even more interesting if you consider that the cause is more likely to be in the cars’ design rather than the muffler design. This is a concept car and thermal management of the exhaust was probably not a high priority in design as the car was never intended to run as it does, and if you have a pre-set space for the…

Volvo and Audi a correct, Volvo is latin for “I roll” and Audi means listen.

In theory there should gains similar HCCI/SCCI possible. I assume that 20% is correct, but only in one specific point of the map with the average gain much lower

You can not just add it on and expect an additional benefit. Both approaches try to increase efficiency by increasing compression ratio and combustion speed to previously impossible levels. Both rely on ignition starting simultaneously at several points of the combustion chamber

It’s not a totally new concept, but very few people have actually claimed to have a production ready plasma or laser igniton system, and those that were build were too expensive

2000 people is an astonishingly high figure for a ballsport that is not even a global sport.
That number is on par with known spectator deaths in motorsport, which one would suspect to be much more dangerous due to cars flying into the stands regularly until the 60s and rally fans still having a habit of entering…

Everyone is saying the same thing, researchers, manufacturers and suppliers all say that the ICE has some decades left. They just avoid doing so when journalists/pr department are around.

If you really want to target SUV and Crossovers, you should increase tax based on frontal area and empty weight, because in reality, these are the things that make the car use fuel, but the influences are still easily gamed out on the dyno. I you were to add extra tax to cars above 2.4m² or 1600kg, increased running…

They got a penalty, but that was for completely different incident.

Maxi Götz crashed it with 5:20h remaining

The decision is not too confusing if you take a close look at it:
They tried to use a law that didn’t exist when the original Beetle was designed, and the used a patent to argue a copyright case, which are different things.

The #31 car is a Dragonspeed car, it is red because of a sponsor.

Tunnels or other buildings have also been damaged by fires of combustion vehicles.

The cut loop as it is currently done is completely pointless. There is no standard location for it, so firefighters have to look up where to cut, they need tools, and in the worst case there is mechanical damage to HV wires between the battery and the cutoff(should be taken care of by the IMD, but as that’s not really…