If it’s top speed is over 250 mph, it seems like it might have a few gears. IIRC the Model S is limited to 130 because that’s the max RPM its motors will run at. The Porsche 918 disconnects its front drive motors at 150 mph because they hit max RPM, and the i8 has a 2 speed gearbox to enable its front motors to…

Normally yes, but Sue was out of town visiting relatives, so they are down to just 2 this week.

Are you going to earn money with whatever else you would do instead of working on the car? If you would otherwise just be spending your time watching TV or browsing the internet, or any other activity that fails to return $25/hr you are losing money. And if you are billing yourself at $25/hr to work on your car you…

my e46 goes about 1-3 miles on zero. but it will go about 5 miles on 1 before it switches to zero.

usually 0-80% can be done at high speed, but 80-100% requires you to slow down a bit. It’s a limitation of the battery chemistry and I don’t think they’ve figured out a way around that.

Saying you don’t remember the victim is a perfectly valid explanation *if* the events did not occur. And he does specifically state that violating another person is anti-ethical to his personality. He’s skipping the part where he says “didn’t do it and never would,” going straight to “the thought that he would even be…

The ability to reliably store large amounts of info(like your lines) in short term memory does not equate to the ability to reliably store things in long-term memory. I once memorized 75 digits of pi in 3 hours, then wrote it down perfectly, but I can’t get past 3.141 today. I can 100% believe that he can’t recall…

In the absence of evidence, which, since this did happen 30-40 years, there won’t be any, it is difficult to establish that either party is telling the truth. You can’t just blanket believe the accuser, but at the same time you can’t just blanket believe the accused. In the absence of anyone else coming forward(and…

Why not just move TNF to Friday? Teams get an extra day off, you don’t compete with the NCAAF marque games and you still basically get a 1.5 week bye afterwards. And most people have Saturday off so you get more eyes on the game since they don’t have to go to work the next day.

<sarcasm> You’re right, nothing is truly emissions free, not even humans. We should just scrap the EPA and spew pollutants everywhere. Cause if we can’t do it at 100%, why bother with doing anything at all? While we are at it, lets get rid of the police, they don’t solve 100% of crimes, and they never will, regardless…

Only about 30% of US power comes from coal. 34% is natural gas, 20% is nuclear, 15% is renewables. The remaining 1% is petroleum products.

Not all is lost! My Dad was doing a similar job a decade or two later and can still do all the basic stuff(he is edging in on 70 now). He usually just asks me about what software to use for what since he knows that I probably already know the answer. I think alot of it is just about how much you kept on top of…

One of my grandmothers drove up until her last 2 years. I swear to god every time we visited her she had a new ding dent or scuff on her car. And it was always because things “jumped out in front of me.”

I remember the day he threw the perfect game. I was working on my car and keeping tabs on the game through the free version of the MLB app. I realized that something special might happen as the zeros started to pile up. When he finished out the 8th I went back inside to see if I could find the game on TV, but it…

Once your entire trunk is taken up by fire extinguisher, it is large enough. Also you’ll need to roof-mount the nozzle, so that’s going to take some custom work. On the plus side you can hook a keg up to the system and become a spring break God(dess).

The largest car markets are the US, China and the EU.

GM sold cars in the US and China, and virtually nowhere else. US and China sales made up 6.9 million cars in 2016, meaning that they sold less than 1 million in the rest of the world combined. Once Chinese manufactures figure out how to build a decent car, they are going to be in trouble in that market.

My Mom’s ‘92 Camry. The day I got my learners permit when I was 15. She let me drive it down the street to the house. I was doing OK until I had to brake to make the turn to the driveway. I wildly overestimated how hard I needed to hit the brake pedal while also braking with my left foot, causing me to screech to…

Minor quibble, in the first image, that is a windage tray, not a baffle. The windage tray keeps the oil from splashing on the crank, which causes parasitic drag and it also assist in limiting oil frothing. Baffles slow the movement of oil in the pan during cornering.

There is also one unofficial kill attributed to an EF-111 Raven where they got into a maneuvering fight with an Iraqi Mirage and got it to maneuver into the ground. I would probably chalk that up as a dogfighting kill.