IF the body was straight and the clearcoat was intact, then maybe its a NP.
SuPeRcHaRgER
SuPeRcHaRgER
That’s because there’s a whole micro-camper/ car-camping subculture around the Element! Think of it as the mini-VW Microbus.
Can Confirm. I drive a 2013 Chevy Volt with around 68k miles on it, and I can still read the white lettering on the backing of the pads. No brake dust to speak of. When I got my first oil Change done at 62k miles (The Volt’s 3rd oil change in its life), the service center noted almost no wear on the brake pads.
The First Gen Sportage’s were better than a Rav4 or CRV of the same generation because a) Low Range and 2) a 2.0 Liter Mazda Turbo Diesel!
The 62kWh battery pack on the Leaf Plus is STILL Aircooled! Also,they say that it can DC Charge at a rate of upto 100kW/hr (instead of the 50kW/hr). Question is, have they sorted out the RapidGate issue on these Leaf’s?
Depending on the size of the Battery Pack, the Live Wire could get a smallish Federal Tax Credit of a few grand (upto $7500) and an additional amount from the State as well (depending on state, like California) , to off-set the price, just like the Zero electric motorcycle does, if I’m not mistaken.
October 18 2018?! Great Scotts!!!
October 18 2018?! Great Scotts!!!
All E36 3 Series have that too.; along with a plastic impeller’d water pump and all the coolant flanges to and from the engine block and cylinder head are plastic too. Don’t ask how I know that haha.
So the new Wrangler comes with the “Death-Wobble” STOCK from the factory? Nice.
No actually. It only runs for a max of 10 minutes. And that’s actually for the “Engine Maintenance mode” between every 2-3 months. Each time, the Volt asks you if you want to run the mode or not before it does it, to prevent the car from running the gas engine, unattended in a garage or something. If you decline twice…
On a scale of 1 to “you betcha!”, how sure are we that the van driver wasn’t an undercover vigilante Rennlist member?
The Chevy Volt has the perfect solution for that, going all the way back in 2010. If the car hasn’t been run on Gas for 8 weeks or so, it automatically fires up the gas engine for a few minutes and turns it off. It does it to lubricate the engine, circulate the coolant and stir that E10 gas up a bit.
The right answer is to JUNK the AC compressor and bolt on a Sprintex Supercharger instead!!! The Kit costs $2,499 to boot to :)
This, ladies and gentleman, is how you RUIN a perfectly capable Cummins powered Ram.
So its both, actually. There’s a separate Electric motor for the Turbo (aka the “Electric Compressor” depending on who you ask), that also runs off of the 48 Volt power supply (not mechanically off the hybrid- assist motor sandwiched between the ICE and the Trans), and I think that’s what you’re referring too :)
Yep, you’re right. Coffee hadn’t kicked in, yo. And see later comment, if it ever gets out of the grays
Yep, I’m wrong. See later comment.
Some 48V Mild-hybrids do that, correct, but the EQ-Boost system in the Mercedes Inline-6's is different. The Integrated Starter-Generator (ISG) is actually sandwiched between the engine and the Transmission. So less like a belted supercharger running off the crank pulley (like th e Ram 1500 does) and more like a Honda…
Exactly what @smalleyxb122 said. There are mechanical limits to everything. Probably the electric motor is so integrated into the drivetrain that its not possible to mechanically decouple it completely.