I’ve seen one on e the marathon ones that said “27.4 (I got lost...)“

Try reading Tesla’s statements again, emphasis mine...

This! I’ve been shopping for a 944 recently, and every time I look at a picture of the interior I cringe at the sight of that monstrosity of a steering wheel. I would have to replace it immediately, before I crashed driving with my eyes closed to avoid looking at it

The fact that I just read “TGT” as Top Gear Two, makes it an excellent name.

I don’t think you’re factoring in the electric-only range to your calculations. If you fully charge your car every night, that would give you 350 miles of electric-only range per week. The remaining 370 miles of gas-powered range would likely be spread spread over 2.5-3 weeks. (That’s assuming you drive the same…

The tire compound may not have been accounted for, but the graph in the article clearly showed no brake wear for the EV.

Ideally, the entire drivetrain would be designed as one cohesive unit, but the ICE could easily be tuned to work better with electric supplementation. AFAIK, the P1 uses this approach. They use oversized turbos to make awesome top-end power, and then allow the electric motor to fill in lower in the RPM range.

At the Toyota Tundra/Tacoma plant in Texas a truck rolls off “the” line every 59 seconds. I worked there for an internship and while some of the slower processes have 2 parallel lines running, I can assure you that every single body is welded together using the same machine. One of my coworkers informed me that for…

Thank you! I was going to make this same comment; the way the survey question is worded doesn’t ask if people would like to own a fully autonomous car, it asked if they think they’ll ever own one. I could ask the Jalopnik commenters if they think they’ll ever own a Ferrari F40 and you’d probably have less than 1%…

That’s a common misconception and has gone down a lot recently. In 2015, coal and petroleum products only accounted for 34% of electricity generation in the U.S.

I’ve seen this exact car on craigslist for the past couple weeks if I hadn’t just bought an engagement ring it would be sitting in my driveway right now

The thing is that your “2-3 second” rule isn’t the law. The law generally states something vague to the effect of a leaving a reasonable distance for the situation and road conditions. If the trailing car was able to stop without hitting the lead car, I’d say that he was following at a reasonable distance for the…

I can agree with that. Essentially, what the MPG and MPGe figures show is the conversion efficiency of potential energy (fuel or stored electricity) into kinetic energy within the vehicle itself. Neither shows the true environmental impact of what it takes to move the vehicle a specified distance.

Wow I just saw this reply, and didn’t notice the coincidence of the 45% efficiency number used as an example. The 45% number that I mentioned was calculated by using a weighted average approach, in which the efficiency of each energy generation method was multiplied by its usage percentage. While that does not take…

I work on diesel engine research and I can tell you that for all engine emissions, the main factor is the “local” temperature/air-fuel ratio/etc. Within a combustion chamber, there will be a fairly wide range of temperatures and air fuel ratios depending on where you look. If you look at the center of the diesel jet,…

Then you’ll only need to use a supercharger station on 5% of your trips. The other 95% of the time you can just charge at home

I’ve been following this interchange because it’s enlightening to hear both sides of an argument, but if you’re going to require your opposition to provide facts and sources you should at least get your own facts straight. While you are correct that the EPA uses a falsely inflated MPGe rating for electric vehicles,…

Sounds like the same shop that said the random misfire on my brother’s 2004 Dodge Ram was due to “stretched valves”. Like they seriously believed that the valve stems had stretched so that they wouldn’t seal anymore. Turned out to be a broken valve spring on cylinder 5. The O2 sensors saw the overly rich exhaust and…

Working on a John Deere riding lawnmower that wouldn’t start. When I was in high school I worked for a mechanic shop for a summer and one of the first things they showed me was how to diagnose a dirty carb. If the engine wouldn’t start on its own, but would fire up for a few seconds after spraying carb cleaner into…

VanDyne makes a unit called a super-turbo that has a CVT between the turbine and the compressor. That is then connected by a belt to the crankshaft pulley. At low engine speeds, the compressor can be driven by the engine like a supercharger, and at higher speeds the turbine can drive the compressor like a normal…