None of those things have batteries. The street cars, buses (non-battery), and subways all have a direct electrical feed that can be cut. Like the other person said, batteries are electrical and chemical fires combined.

As I said in another comment, firefighters have been fighting gas and diesel fires for 100 years. They’ve been fighting electric car fires for less than 10.

278,000 car fires in 2007. You’re odds aren’t really any worse than an ICE vehicle.

Eh, I doubt the “any other model” argument. There are plenty of combustion vehicle accidents where the occupants were trapped and burned with the car. Or where firefighters may have had a hard time removing passengers due to the fire.

Wasn’t that America’s design philosophy for cars in the 60's and early 70's?

They upload the most of the races to YouTube for free. It doesn’t look like any 2019 races are up yet, but the 2017 and 2018 seasons are. I think they wait until it airs on CBS Sports before uploading.

Huh? Sprinters are RWD. The only FWD big van is the Ram Promaster.

The philosophy I always use when engineering things is if there is any remote chance something can be installed incorrectly, then it most definitely will be installed incorrectly. It’s not a matter of if, just when.

That’s why you pull the engine before that happens, sell it to someone whose engine is already scrap metal, and swap in an LS. Except the guy is in California which means he’s stuck with the Porsche engine until he EV swaps it.

The only other vehicle I’ve seen that doesn’t go into a spin with the small overlap test is the Volvo XC90, so kudos Ford on figuring out how to disperse that energy, and keep from giving the occupants even more whiplash.

To be fair, that tech was still signalling them forward when it was super obvious they weren’t lined up properly. He didn’t tell them to stop until it was way too late.

Miata people can be kind of weird and picky about things, and this is coming from a NA owner. I think there’s a lot of people who don’t want a turbo Miata because it’s “against the slow car fast mentality” and it messes with the 50/50 weight balance (though I doubt most of them could tell the difference), and the…

-You can hand me a battery though, which are only getting better. Yes they aren’t as energy dense, but the reason batteries still suck is because they’re practically the same as they have been for the past 100 years because no one saw a need to make them better.

No but it probably helped someone in Dubai choose to fly Etihad. There’s 7.1 billion other people outside the US, and 1.3 billion people watched the first 15 F1 races last year.

I mean Cleetus Mcfarland bought a NASCAR truck that was street legal in Mississippi, so it’s definitely doable. Though it had an LS engine instead of the race engine.

What do you mean by easy to handle? You don’t have to truck electricity down the interstate, or pump it through pipelines that can leak, or refine it from crude to what you actually end up using. You can’t spill electricity while charging your vehicle and electricity doesn’t evaporate into polluting fumes. The…

I get you are very upset about this, but let me ask a question. If you read an article about Michael Andretti’s successes, and it never once mentioned Mario, would you be as upset about it as you are now?

Ok, but how do you know Susie didn’t maybe provide some insight that Toto used? Which according to your logic means she should be mentioned in articles about him too. My wife and I both provide each other feedback about our jobs, but I don’t take credit for anything she does, nor does she expect credit either, because…

Hey at least that actually fixed an issue, instead of creating an entirely new one.

Is Susie mentioned when an article talks about Toto’s accomplishments? No? Then why should Toto be mentioned when talking about Susie’s accomplishments?