Yeah, but that means a FULL Charge/Discharge cycle every day..  probably unlikely for a 300+ mile range car unless used in fleet/delivery use.   In which case, that would still net you 1.2M miles at 300 miles/day for 4000 cycles.

Actually, it’s even more of a delta than that.  The electric motor you show and the starter motor all have brushes/commutators.  The ones in EVs are brushless, and the induction motors don’t even have permanent magnets that can be desaturated.  Even the old style brushed motors last almost forever..  There are…

You can completely change the camera behavior in the settings (always could), the default makes me wanna puke too.

I like Cadillac, but what the hell is their obsession with vertical headlights and taillights?  I know it’s their shtick, but their cars would look 80% better with just normal lights.  The proportions are all good, just genuine wtf on the lights.

“50% off all catfood, please collect from the end of the train.”

That would be a hilarious engineering design exercise: “Design a men’s urinal for the following train..”

You’re correct.  Forgot to update after the speed fix.  still within a minute tho.

At 1G of acceleration, with a pivoting chair, a rider would only see a ~42% increase in actual gravity (vector math, down at 1g + accel at 1g = sqrt(2) at 45 degrees). Bumping accel and decel to 2g changes the time very little, about 90 seconds, but increases the load on the passengers to an apparent 2.23G (sqrt 5).

read it wrong, fixed it. :)

Yeah, but grandma would complain when her hip dislocates from the fancy train. LOL

6500 MPH is ~9533 FPS. 1 G of acceleration would be 32'/s squared, so just to accelerate to 9533 FPS at 1G would take just under 5 minutes at a constant 1g. During accel, you’d have covered 352 miles. Decel is the same time and speed. So, assuming san fran is 2900 miles from NYC (google maps), that leaves 2196 miles…

Username checks out.

Also none of the RWD.

LOL, I’m 6'4", had to take the visors off to see out the top of the windshield.  Miss that damn car every day, even though my friends said I looked like BigBird humping a tic-tac driving it. (white NB).  

LOL, read this as Kartoffelfahren.  Potato-driving. 

Saw the thumbnail on Jalopnik home page, legit said out loud “damn, that’s a cool looking miata..”

I’ve seen a lot of people nay-saying about EV charging infrastructure in the US, but I’ve also seen a great deal of interest from the power companies. Not so much in sales/revenue generation, but in dynamic load adjustment. Here in E. Washington, the local power company, Avista Utilities will pay 50% of the cost to…

Exactly!  And, although it was actually warmer than now in the past, this time it’s definitely our fault, so please hand over 65% of your money to the government, which promises to fix everything by taking all of your money. 

I think the biggest gain from these semis has nothing to do with emissions, but rather driver safety. It’s got to be so much easier to drive, especially in traffic or over hills, I think it'll make it a quick favorite for truck drivers.  Single pedal driving a truck sounds amazing compared to chuffing gears in stop…

Your comment made me think of this: