For the uninitiated, Staplefahrer Klaus:

My guess, given the voltage, is that they’re using a CCS standard plug. If so, it uses a SAE J1772 plug and signalling alongside a DC plug for fast charging.

I’m saying it’s not inconceivable. The controller already has to handle a wide range of voltages and amperages due to cell degradation over the life of the battery, so I doubt either it or the driver would even recognize that 1 cell out of over 8000 was not receiving or providing a charge as long as the rest of the cel…

I can’t comment on how exactly it happened, but both people involved were elderly. I suspect that it was simple absent-mindedness, such as the Infiniti owner getting out of his car, reaching into his pocket to grab the key and press the lock button (because he’s elderly and doesn’t understand the door touch thingy…

If you throw a bad cell away, you need to pay someone to haul it to the landfill and pay for another good cell to replace it in the battery pack. If you place the bad cell in the pack and disconnect it, the customer pays you to take it away and you keep your good cells to to build another pack. If the company is…

In another article it was mentioned that the original driver had the fob in his hand for some reason, but put it down to search for something that had fallen under the seat and lost track of the key. I could understand pulling the fob out of your pocket to lock the car, but abruptly remembering that you were missing…

The Model 3 battery cells have protruding leads that are soldered to a common bus. It’s not inconceivable that damaged cells could have been placed in the pack and not connected to the bus as a way of disposing damaged cells and retaining more working cells for other battery packs. I believe the Model S and X cells…

I doubt they’ll run a roval in the rain either. I believe the biggest issue with running ovals in the rain is the lack of runoff meaning any loss of control puts a car into the wall at high speeds. I agree with running rovals at any track where it can be accommodated and adding a few more road tracks for all-weather…

Anime has already beaten you to the punch. éX-Driver is a show about a future where all cars are autonomous, but an elite team of drivers employ a stable of classic cars, race cars, and rally cars to stop any autonomous vehicles that go rogue by disabling their sensors.

It’s too bad that drivers will still need to go through downtown Windsor to reach the bridge, but the river is at its narrowest there so there’s not a lot they can do. At least the new bridge will hopefully keep 401 traffic on the highway rather than dumping the highway traffic onto city streets to navigate the…

Don’t forget 100 pieces of random junk you collected because they contain the screws and adhesives you need to expand your settlements.

I believe my comment from a previous thread still holds:

The only rodent in gaming worth talking about is Boo, the Miniature Giant Space Hamster from Baldur’s Gate. Are other gaming rodents encouraged to go for the eyes? I think not.

My guess is that it’d be slower. F1 cars produce a lot of downforce but that in turn creates a lot of drag so, given the design of the Ring, I doubt they could make up enough time in corner speed and acceleration over a prototype than they’d lose on the straights.

My grandpa had a couple of MF135s with poorly counterbalanced flappers. I was hoping to find a video of a flapper going tingtahtingtingtingtah as it flapped open and closed at idle, but it seems that manufacturing tolerances have gone up over the past couple of decades.

The only problem with top exhausts is that they collect rain and snow. To prevent that from happening, supercars should invest in some top-of-the-line agricultural technology.

Microsoft at least had a reasonable explanation in that they didn’t want Microsoft customers to interact with Sony’s unreliable and insecure infrastructure.

God yes, the horrible physics. Disclaimer, I recently picked up the original The Crew on the Steam Sale because I wasn’t ready to drop $80 CDN on The Crew 2 sight-unseen.

In case you’re out of the loop, the meme about millennials and avocado toast comes from an out-of-touch Australian millionaire saying avocado toast was the reason millennials couldn’t afford houses.

And it made for one of the most boring Le Mans races in recent memory. I still see people giving Ford a hard time for the GT’s inaugural performance in 2016, but there was still back and forth racing between the Fords and Ferraris despite the poor BoP settings. This year there was hardly any racing worth watching…