If you’re so confident in your trucks, why don’t you enter one as a T2 car and easily beat all the T1s to the overall win? You keep the stock suspension and run much larger restrictors than the T1 cars. By your logic those cars should be dominating the race, why aren’t they?

One thing the stock Raptor would do is run out of fuel. It is also hundreds of kgs heavier than the Dakar cars, and I doubt it would be durable enough. There was a heavily modified Raptor in the 2021 field, it came 9th.

Dual-Fuel engines were developed because countries started to regulate emissions. In EU waters, the ships will run on Gas, while on the open sea they run on oil. Modern ships like the Ever Given also have exhaust gas treatment to reduce emissions like filters and cats.

MAN ships complete engines that have been run on the dyno. If the engines were disassembled, they’d have to be tested again between engine reassembly and ship assembly.

No emissions control is not true. Many countries have emissions regulations, that is why dual-fuel engines are increasingly common. And fuel quality only influences pollutants, g CO2 /kWh is the same for refined and residual oils.

They could technically be transported, but it would be unfeasible. The smaller engines from Augsburg are transported by river, as they are too heavy for road transport(although they do transport them on the road for bit until they get to the harbor). The MAN people explained that for the largest engines like the one…

A few years ago, I had the chance to visit the MAN factory in Augsburg, where they make engines for marine and stationary applications, although not as large as this one. The CNC mill they use to finish the crankcase castings was 25m long.

Evergreen is the company that operates the ship. The ship itself is called Ever Given.

W180 Cabriolet. Still the gold standard of automotive elegance, even after 65 years. The car radiates so much class, even Darth Orange could look elegant in one.

They should send him to Egypt, he would spin that ship right around in no time.

Just a reminder that the current incident was not the first time the 2.5-year old Ever Given was directionally challenged, and I have come across some video from the last time it got too close to the shore:

Because the ticket goes to the driver, not the owner, and reflections in the windows make identifying the driver very hard.

With everything I read about Tesla and unions, I increasingly get the impression that I should get popcorn for when the Grünheide plant opens and we get Musk vs IG Metall

The 500, 360 and Trabant all inline engines.

The ship has been in service for only two and a half years. In this time it has not just the current incident, but also one in Hamburg in 2019, where it drifted too close to the shore and collided with a moored passenger ferry. Wind was blamed for that incedent aswell.

You wouldn’t have to do away with states, you just would have to allocate mandates based on population size. In Germany, we also have to chambers of parliament. One consists of representatives sent by the state parliaments, with states having between three and six representatives depending on population size. The…

Because apart from the electrical issues from disconnecting under power, with unlocked plugs you’d get youths going around unplugging people’s cars because it’s funny and idiots uplugging other cars to charge their own.

Other candidates would be a part of Hatzenbach, which consists of six corners, or the corners colloquially known as Niki-Lauda-Kurve or Mutkurve, both are devoid of official names, although the latter is part of Klostertal, and one might argue that the former should get that name officially.

Almost all corner names have not been changed since the track opened. Most corners are named for geographical or anecdotal reasons.

Everything west of the Ural is usually considered part of Europe