That Turbo 4 with a 300+HP electric motor and a 50+kWh battery would be all you need for a monster that could tow a massive trailer across a country nice and efficiently. Make sure it can run as a plug in hybrid, run the motor like a chevy volt where most of the time it is just a steady state generator, but it can…

Being able to throw that scooter to the ground and dive for cover in seconds actually sounds incredibly useful in the battlefield. Quiet is also super important.

I don’t need engine sounds but I do need innovation. Bring back the looney toons that was Group B rally cars, Pikes Peak hill climb and 1970's Formula 1. Let car makers go nuts with design again.

I’m looking at replacing a full size trades vehicle in Canada. Here’s some numbers for you.

Look at those flat tops to those boxes. Don’t accidentally leave a flower pot full of thermite on top, and certainly don’t accidentally add a magnesium strip to light it off. That would pour molten metal down into the camera housing and destroy the whole thing.

If you want the most survivable seats in the plane, you want to be in the area over the wings. That has the most structure and no matter which way the plane lands you have the most crush structure between you and the bit that stops very fast.

Lifted 4x4 van owner here. A jeep owner once asked me why I didn’t just build a jeep. I asked him if he could fit a queen sized bed in the back of his jeep. 

Only $20,000 if you want to do race car style pit stops with 1 man per corner. 

But I WANT an electric and these new vans are crap. Keep in mind the new silverado can do 640km of range. There is no reason you can’t dump  a van body on that platform and get 500km of range.

Right. AVERAGE. On an average day I don’t do 400km. But some days I DO drive 400km. I don’t need a vehicle for just average days, I need a work vehicle for ALL work days.

Oh man where is my low roof not extended electric van? Trades people go into parking garages and the high roof extended length vans are idiotic for most trades guys unless you are making a mobile shop. Especially me since I park my van in my low roof shop.

Locking down repairs. Making parts hard to get, changing out a part and having locked down software requiring a dealer visit. Near zero aftermarket parts support. No aftermarket scan tool support and making the factory diagnostic software access insanely expensive for shops. Teslsa are a fucking nightmare for…

The megacastings are well within the ‘it’s fucked’ crash zone. If you actually hit the car so hard that you fuck up the casting chances are the whole car is garbage. The castings do not go to the outer edges of the car or within the initial crush zone. 

That’s a hell of a parts car for a hot rod swap.

A lot of it is you are driving this heavy torque monster and you are used to listening to an engine to gauge speed instead of just looking at the speedo. Speed creeps up on you in a quiet fast car. Then you hammer on the brakes in the rain and oh shit this 5000lb monster doesn’t stop on a dime.

Hung like a donkey here. Minivan. However I have owned fast cars because they are fun.

Round your results, mister engineer. 99% of the people here won’t understand that.

Holy crapola, your payback on a solar array would only be a few years.

Canada here, left coast. Prices in CAD. (USD = $1.33CAD today)

EV’s are harder on tires but are drastically easier on brakes as regenerative braking does 95% of the work in most moderate driving situations. Track days? Bring an extra set of brake pads.