I’ve got my eye on one of these: http://www.skully.com/

Congratulations, Mr. MB and Mr. SleestakJak, on shared COTD today! I have a Tesla for you both which this lovely lady will deliver after she gets some Texas barbecue.

1. “Is Richard Rawlings is the Brian Williams of the Automotive World?”

I’m getting it as a tattoo soon.

People aren’t being conscripted into these races. The great ideal of the Western World is “individual liberty.” We should allow people to make choices for themselves, when the impact of their decision affects only themselves. At the end of the day, why should society value the life of a person more than s/he values…

I dont know how people can tolerate him for more than like 3-4 minutes.

Carey

they will say- yeah but the factory is powered by coal and think of all the coal jobs being lost! I’m still pissed that I can’t run my locomotive on coal anymore!

28 hours 50 minutes set by Ed.

Guinness has rules regarding charging and unfortunately generators are not allowed.

There is several rules from Guinness regarding this record.

It was a typo, 120 - 135 kw. (Also standard lightbulb was 60W). No need to get in a frill over an obvious simple typo. As far as cooling for the wires, it boils down to how much gauge the wire is.

It was a fun little trip and probably a good way for this couple to spend with eachother. I’m guessing they didn’t run the AC and took other steps to minimize power use. I think interesting competition will take place when people start disconnecting other systems (power steering?) To maximize efficiency. I could see…

Thanks Ozzy.

It would also be faster in an F-15.

No, they ended up right where they needed to be to facilitate cross-country driving. Any records are entirely incidental.

They say it is usually people who have done nothing in their lives who tend to hate on the achievements of others.

Wrong. It’d be in surplus.

Suburban is a little better at cargo storage than a tesla