But now you’re just adding a lot of extra weight for an additional system that will barely be used. At least with hybrids, you can expect significant use out of both powertrains to justify the weight penalty, unless it’s a plug-in hybrid. Plus weight matters less in cars since you don’t have to lift it off the ground.

A significant portion of the noise comes from just the prop moving air around. Aside from gliders, aircraft are never going to be quiet and unobtrusive. 

Literally all freighters regardless of size use a direct-drive system from the engine to the prop (some use a gearbox between them, but they’re always physically coupled to the prop. It’s actually much more efficient to physically couple them rather than lose energy converting mechanical energy to electrical and back…

They also literally can’t last 5 minutes of “spirited” driving before their batteries threaten to self-immolate.

The Cybertruck isn’t an EV?

How tf is this a misdemeanor, especially when the word OPPRESSION is in the name of the charge?! One of the many perks of being a cop I guess.

Yeah I just read the spec sheet at the very bottom of the press release that said it had diesel-electric propulsion. But that also doesn’t make sense for a freighter to have the main engine not directly driving the propeller.

A) From what I saw in the press release, they didn’t go into specifics about the ships’ powertrain details, but I’d like to think they’d be working on a way for the ship to burn the hydrogen boil-off in a similar way to how LNG carriers burn some of their cargo for fuel to deal with its inevitable evaporation.

That’s how LNG carriers operate. Rather than try to contain the increased pressure as the LNG inevitably boils, just route the evaporated product into the engine and propel the ship with it.

I would think they’d design the engine to burn some of the “boil-off” gas that occurs when trying to transport a liquefied gas, just like they do with LNG carriers. Of course it’s probably a pain to design a ship engine capable of burning both bunker fuel, which is essentially sludge, and hydrogen. It would be sweet…

So he should just turn over a new Leaf every 100 miles?

No, it’s British Porsche 918.

If the launch control can’t give me a concussion, I’m not interested!

918 and Model S P100D.

But this car is going to be a plug-in hybrid, same as those other hypercars you mentioned (except the LaFerrari). All the halo cars for the forseeable future will be hybrids of some sort for the exact reasons McLaren mentioned. 

You can have a base Corvette for 5 figures that gets to 60 only half a second slower than this future McLaren. And there are plenty of fun cars that drive great and are even less expensive, but of course don’t hit 60 anywhere near as fast (but they’re still quick enough to be fun). 

Yeah I don’t care what’s under the hood of a normal daily driver, but any “fun” car I ever buy is likely gonna have to burn something, because EVs do nothing for me in terms of excitement. 

I don’t know if they could make the CG on these appreciably lower than any other open-wheel car. With the driver practically sitting on the ground, the only place to put the battery is where the engine on a normal car would go anyway.

They prefer to mess with people, then kill them, not the other way around.

Hydrogen could still have a practical use for long-distance travel like ships and over-the-road trucks, as well as for sports cars. In both cases, you’d get the advantages of electric drive without the massive weight penalty of batteries. For an average daily driver, you’re right, the batteries make the most sense.