There are DC brushless motors and they usually have higher energy density than AC motors. You need some kind of position feedback device for the rotor so the DC drive can do the electronic commutation (instead of simple brushes) but the technology has been around for a long time and has lots and lots of advantages.

They mention that the funny looking fluted exhaust is just for cooling the battery. It’s not a blown diffuser like it would be if it used the exhaust from the ICE.

You are kinda right. I work in industrial automation and we use permanent magnet synchronous DC servo motors and 160kW are some big ass motors (like hundreds of kg). We use a DC bus voltage of almost 800V to power them as well and they use expensive rare earth magnets. The rest of the reason the motors in the…

Undamped springs too.

I only have a CPO 335i (meaning only a lowly 3 series and I bought it used) and every time my car has been at the dealership for warranty shit (vanos bolts, electrical issue, windshield washer tank leak, headlight washer nozzles) I always have gotten a 320i or 328i loaner unless they are out they will get me something…

Yeah the 320i xdrive I had as a loaner most recently spent the entire time with either full throttle or braking. Also multiple 4 wheel slides on dry pavement. lol

watch it brake and turn tho body roll like whoa.

I thought it was rounded to the ground

Extra 0.2L not CID

If all 6 of you go to the dealership for warranty work does each person get coffee and a donut? or do you have to split it 6 ways?

Please make an article once you find out some of the answers to these questions. I also have a lot of ???

Yeah you probably shouldn’t be the main guarantor if you can’t afford to buy the whole car yourself. I imagine it will be like cosigning a loan.

Clutches also wear out much faster than a normal open diff or helical LSD.

a burning pee-pee?

I bet you they do.

I’ve got some S2000 floor mats from a car show in 2005. I have never even ridden in an S2000. I don’t know why I took them but I was young and dumb.

Pack expo?

Priuses I don’t care what Toyota says.

That is exactly what the article is saying...