Coincidentally, yes. I’m 6'3", built like a ferret. If you go NB, remove the visors. NC is fine, ND will be tough.. My NB was amazing.. It was white, and my friends said I looked like big bird humping a tic tac driving it. Only car I’ve ever regretted selling...

The whole family has had Covid-19 in the last 2 months, so we’re going to meet up.  I’ve had people express their displeasure with me, but I ask them why?  We’re unable to get or spread COVID-19 for quite a while, calm down..

As a Volt owner who traded in my ‘15 mustang vert for the ‘16 volt (Due to a 35 mile one-way commute with a charger avail at work), I would be first in line for a mustang PHEV.  

Every state needs to require these IDs for everything state related. They also need to make them free to acquire. The only reason this keeps getting pushed back is because “It’ll keep poor people from getting them,” but that excuse can be nixed immediately by making them free. Require them for any government…

Not really. Let’s look: First we have the 2 biggest most expensive bikes from HD and BMW. The CVO Limited vs. the k 1600 GTL.

I’ve ridden modern bikes from Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, BMW, Triumph, and Harley Davidson.  Only one of those brands was supremely disappointing.  It was the one that weighed twice as much as it should have, made my ass and hands numb, felt squirrely over 70, was obnoxiously loud, got terrible fuel mileage, and cost too…

2nd Gen owner here.  Can confirm.  zero regrets, best car i’ve owned (there’ve been dozens).

WBAIS alum too?

That Vega look almost new, maybe 1000 original miles.

Or a clean Cutlass supreme convertible, hrng..

California mode:  Car will berate your eating choices, whine about the drought, confiscate all plastic straws, then take 70% of your money every year. 

It wouldn’t surprise me if R32s came with crack pipes.. LOL

If this was done with a small battery and a microturbine for a range extender, I'd get one in a heartbeat. 

DC motors require brushes or slip rings.  Both are extremely problematic from a longevity perspective when you’re cranking a couple of hundred thousand watts at 1000A through them.  Synchronous AC motors let you use ALL THE POWER without a spark gap or wearable item.

As a fellow ferret, I share this issue. Along with it comes the japanese car issue of: Adjust seat for proper leg placement and have to straight-arm grip the wheel, or adjust the seat for steering wheel comfort and jam knees into dash/column.

I’d like to point out 2 errors in your article (source: fiero nerd).  1)  The engine and transaxle aren’t in “backwards,”  if that were so, they’d turn the wrong way.  They’re the same direction that they normally are, just in the rear of the car.  In the example here, the plastic beauty cover has been rotated 180…

Right, in this case I mean the user-visible full charge, or the real 15%-85%.

Permanent magnet motors also have no brushes on EV’s but they use a rotary encoder to vary the field synchronously to the position of the magnet. PM motors are more efficient on regen and at low speeds, induction motors are better at high RPM. PM motors spinning like mad induce eddy currents in the metal of the stator…

Yes, but those coils are charged (turned into) by externally induced magnetic fields and then get “dragged” along.