With only 4P and 3P battery packs if you lose 1 cell out of 400 something you are losing 25% to 66% capacity. I wonder if they have some kind of protection for that or do they not expect to ever lose a cell? I always balked at a Tesla with 9000 18650 cells, but at least they have 100P packs so 1 cell only loses 1% and…

From my research all Teslas use induction motors. The only clear advantage of a synchronous PM motor vs induction motor is smaller size per power. Efficiency can favor both designs depending on design requirements. Also PM motors are a bitch to manufacturer as you need clean rooms and special stiff tooling you install…

Coal is 3x more efficient then an Atkinson cycle engine running at peak efficiency because of the CVT? Please show your work. Peak efficiency of ICE is around 40%. Coal is not 120% efficient lol.

Please explain how C02 will affect your health? Do you not have aircon?

By your own admission the drive train is simple and not complex therefore not a major percentage of cost of the car. I mean if you are already replacing the body (which also means the chassis) the battery and interior you are basically at the cost of a brand new car because you would also have to take apart the car…

You mean like all current Toyota axles and the Ford 9 inch?

I have an FJ40 that I swapped a Chevy into, the weak part is the transfer case that sends both front and rear driveshaft torque through the transfer gears. A Jeep cherokee with an AX15 is a much better vehicle in my opinion.

This is absurd, racing in formula E doesn’t save the environment. The carbon footprint of a formula series has little to do with the fuel the race cars burn or not burn. It’s all the factories and trucks, airplanes, boats that it takes to put on the series. In Formula E you have two cars for every driver so it might…

That is the first I’ve heard that opinion. Would you say that is due to the cable shifter or something else? My complaint with the NSG370 is because of the bad vibes shifting at high rpm, and the 1st to 2nd isn’t smooth when rushed. It also has the tendancy to knock the sh*t out of your hand if you hover over the…

Dodge already kind of limits the power on the manual challenger, you can’t get the red eye with a manual, or the demon. I drive a manual JK that I also towed a travel trailer with, I would have to drop it to 4x4 low range and scrub the tires to back the trailer up a steep incline into a tight spot which would have…

The wheel diameter and rear end aren’t 1, the 1:1 is only used because it is usually the strongest and most efficient gearing of a manual transmission, and the 4 speed automatics, (I don’t know about the 6-10 speeds but would assume it would be the same).

From a technical perspective gearing doesn’t change horsepower except for frictional losses. A dyno would only need to measure the wheel force on the roller and the roller speed to get wheel horsepower. Gearing or engine rpm would be needed to correct the torque and graph the HP per engine RPM instead of wheel speed.…

Thanks, if I could actually write I would have been an automotive journalist then be stuck as an engineer.

This isn’t like the old days, you can’t just triple lap the valves and port and polish the heads and intake manifold, because that stuff is already done from the factory. Plus the fact that this is a car that journalists beat up, it needs to be dead nuts reliable as the engineers designed it or you would be flushing…

Assuming it’s an inertial dyno the mid engine will have less intertial losses then a front engine rear wheel drive would.

I think the quicker quarter mile times are more due to the mid engine layout then the engine making more then rated power. Just compare the C8 to the GT3, 11.3 (121 mph) vs 11.2 (127 mph), both have 500 hp NA.

Pretty sure Motortrend also said the Hellcat engine was making more power then the sae number. Their test is obviously flawed due to a range from 478 to 561 hp. Then there was this whole business about the Supra being underrated as well. I would say:

Using this website and 20 mpg for gas and 30 mpg for diesel, I get $3068 savings for US average and $7185 for California.

The price makes sense because it sounds like a finished top trim car is delivered to the coach builder which then has to disassemble, stretch, paint, then re assemble, and only because they are doing at least 80 of them can they get efficient at it. I doubt that they could modify a car mid assembly line which would be…

Just depends on what your version of luxury car is, if you think the Merc S class is the pinnacle luxury car (and no one can argue with you) then nothing else will do, but Cadillac went FWD long ago to get rid of the tunnel in the interior, increase trunk space, and for better ride comfort: read center of percussion…