Here in germany, a big advantage of trains is that the stop in the city centre, because the stations have been there since the 19th century, while airports tend to be far outside the city. That combined with securtiy and long boarding times makes trains the better choice over planes on most domestic routes. Lufthansa…

As a high-speed rail user(germany) I’ve also wondered about that, but security checkpoints for trains would basically be the same as placing these checkpoint in malls.

So, will the Duster become an actual off-road car or will the Niva become a lifted last-gen Renault Clio?

It’s no coincidence that Tesla videos about autonomous features always show the car in good weather and in light traffic. They are nowhere near autonomous driving.

I also don’t see the board approving a 50 million deal. After all their cost cuts and lay-offs I can’t imagine them paying one dude 1000 line workers worth of money. If he wants to drive that car, he’s going to take a pay cut.

The original Nazis had a very competent inner circle with a plan. They couldn’t pack courts, and even after banning rival parties and suppressing voters they only reached 43%. But after rural areas carried the NSDAP to relevance, the SA was very effective in (physically) fighting political opponents, much more so than…

Cobalt, Lanthanum and Neodymium come to mind

But the toddler was close to randomly finding the door. Had Trump managed to appoint judges that put loyalty over law, like Erdogan, the country would be in complete chaos now, and if the republicans had had good results for house and senate, he would have kept a very good chance at staying in office illegitimately.

The point of the whole excercise is that the fuel is not fossil, making it carbon-neutral. Converting CO2, Water and electricity into a hydrocarbon fuel is a effective way of storing energy. And the energy density of this storage method is so high that it is the only viable option for some areas. With current battery…

I don’t think Trump has tested any limits, the whole thing could have been organized a lot better on his part. In reality, we have been shown that the US democracy is less robust than the Weimar Republic or post-soviet Russia were, and has survived mostly on luck. Had the Trump administration had someone with even…

Bonus Messerschmitt fact: The Jumo 210G engine used in the Bf109C was the first production gas engine with direct injection. Before the war, Bf109s broke several speed records for airplanes, although those were mostly later Daimler Benz engined versions.

The idea is not to put it on a plane to clean the exhaust gas, like with a common 3-way or SCR catalyst in your car, but to build a stationary plant that is fueled by nuclear or reneweable electricity and produces fuel that is then used like current mineral oil-based fuels. The system described above would essentially…

Bascially everyone has been researching on reclaiming carbon from ambient air CO2, the auto industry included, either with catalysts or refined algae, but nobody is has managed to be cost-competitive with fossil carbon so far. If on e team managed to come out with synthetic diesel for the price of natural diesel(or…

I feel like evryone around here could use some insanity, so may I interest you in a GAZ 21-based “Stainless Steel dragon car”?

For the problems that EV can have, being tech-savvy is probably not enough. Everything related to the HV system requires specialist training to work on. Considering the quality of advice that Google finds for car problems, that could become quite dangerous once EVs get old enough to have electrical breakdowns.

The coffee

I wanted to try, but wtf happened to the Dollar over the last half year?

It was trivial to build such a system 5 years ago, but the robot alone would carry a 4-digit price tag, so it does not have a strong business case beyond being a PR gimmick. The only people you could reasonably expect to buy one are Tesla bros who would install one at home and then upload every charging to Instagram…

On track, Mazepin got really close to a license suspension, he accumulated 11/12 penalty points in F2, but they are not carried over into F1.

With the way contracts are written, I don’t know what anyone was expecting to happen. For Haas to be able to sack Marzipan, they would have probably needed her to throw him under the bus. But she probably likes to drink tea, so she was never going to do that and something between nothing and an undisclosed final…