Sources? As an engineer in the industry this contradicts everything I’ve seen.

Do you have any sources whatsoever you can cite to support your claim re: lithium and contradict his? Or were you just hoping for stars with zero accountability?

Came here for this. The absolute worst.

Jalopnik is run by 20-somethings (and Tom McParland). None are old enough to remember the Can-Am. That said, Can-Am 2 was pretty much F-5000 with fenders, so maybe the F1 comparison isn’t too far off.

Yea, they’re gonna have to do a lot of work to reduce resonance noise/vibration from flat panels that big.
Will most likely need a lot of structure on the back of the panels to reduce deflection.  

The Jones Act is terrible in so many ways. During the last(?) devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico (I’ve lost count, sadly) the US literally could not ship aid there because we did not have Jones Act compliant ships! Our own hostages people, and we could not even help them thanks to a terrible century old law that…

You’d think that, but Elon also stuck with the Falcon Wing doors on the Model X, even though they are expensive, unreliable, and probably add about 200-300 lbs to the vehicle over traditional doors.

Thanks to aeroelastic flutter, you probably won’t even need to hit a bump to get some horrific noises out of those door panels. If they’re not willing/able to add creases to increase the panel rigidity, I hope they have free space for a ton of hat channel.

Both springback and crumpling problems are the result of faster work hardening in stainless steel relative to carbon steel. The crumple zone thing is just a math problem. You can certainly account for decreased plastic energy dissipation in the structural design. But if boy wonder already had a product launch before…

It’s a travesty that you hadn’t considered ‘Six Pack’ starring Kenny Rodgers *the* greatest racing movie of all time.

I also can’t imagine doing it with sea planes makes their achievement any easier...

Can confirm. Classic cars are fucking dangerous. I own a 1955 Mercury and there is nothing safe about it. Ladder frame with a bolt on body with zero crumple zones. In an accident, the body provides little protection and chunks can easily get torn off. In a head-on collision the frame can easily sheer. The steering…

300, 200. Pacifica, Cirrus, Airflow, Airstream, Alpine, Centura, Concorde, Conquest, Cordoba, Crossfire, Fifth Avenue, Imperial, LeBaron, LHS, Newport, Royal, Saratoga, Sebring, TC, Town and Country, Turbine Car, Windsor, Aspen.....As many do as dont. 

No. What do you think a carb does? It mixes fuel and air, and the intake manifold warms it up on the way in, along with all the various devices manufacturers used during the carburated years to get warm air into the intake during warm up.

There is no way that swapping similarly sized carb will double or triple the…

The 100MPG carburetor too, basically anything that amounts to “we could easily make more efficient cars, but don’t because of big oil.”

Engine working on water. They killed the last guy who made that happened...

The thing is - he ran into a moving tail rotor. It doesn’t matter why, it doesn’t matter how cautious and wary a person he was. He walked into his own demise. It’s a tragic incident and I don’t blame people for looking for...something. blame, anger, etc.

Pretty certain that is Racer X driving!

Car would have caught that Z, if not for the drag created by all those useless lights.