If it looses point or two in the Cd it doesn’t matter that much as the cross section is still as small. This day and age where manufacturers make a fuzz about the Cd they don’t make that much noise about the other half of the equation that includes the cross section.

I’ve worked for people like this - serial ‘entrepreneurs’ with nothing but failures and broken promises behind them. The thrill for them isn’t working with others to produce a viable company, which makes a profit and provides some sort of public good.

President Elect-Rapist Trump just named Vanga head of the National Transportation Safety Board

Thats the problem with a lot of these range extended BEV’s vs a traditional strong PHEV. The flow of power for a REX is something like ICE > Gearbox > Generator > Inverter/Switch > Battery (depending on design) > Electric motor > Gearbox > Wheels. Each one of those steps has its own inefficiencies and you need way…

They keep trying with that engine. Sorry it’s not that efficient and it’s not as reliable as any circle cylinder engine. If the ICE is gonna directly power the rear wheels, just give us a good 4/6 cyl, with or without hybrid. If they really must do something “creative” license the Porsche 6 stroke, or a do a 6 stroke…

It wasn’t forgotten as much as it wasn’t even considered. I can drive an hour south and be in an area of the country where people have sat around for 50+ years and consistently voted red, under the promise that coal mines are going to magically reopen and bring prosperity back to the region. And they’ll keep doing it…

They teach it as business school, sure. Where they don’t teach it is Robert E. Lee highschool in Bumfucksville N. Carolina, which provided the highest level of education most of the voters for these politicians received. So it will indeed be shocking to them when there aren’t suddenly millions more jobs available.

Sure, let’s all believe the Most Lying Human In All Human History, Donold J Trump, and start applauding his grand wisdom! Especially since it’s about something he has no interest or knowledge of. Great thinking, geniuses.

I’d settle for taxing investment profits at regular income tax rates.

(Teslas are depreciating faster than Masers)

Elon’s autonomous vehicles are like his robot butlers.

Raise the short-term gains tax. Hold a stock for less than 12 months? The gains are taxed at a rate inversely proportional to how long you hold the stock for.

LOL. Have you seen the Cybertruck or do you live under a rock?

I personally wouldn’t buy one, but it absolutely beats the pants off the Cybertruck for the same price. And the midgate makes the small bed much more capable.

Unfortunately when they all also lose their health care and disability payments and when they can’t afford to eat because import prices are too high and there are no immigrants left to pick what we produce, the half of Americans that decided to go MAGA don’t have the capacity for causal reasoning and self-reflection…

Elon, despite being rich and running what is arguably the most spotlighted EV brand to date, has remained relatively an unknown to the majority of Americans. Sure they may know the name, but they don’t know about him. America is about to get a masterclass in the Dunning-Kerr effect as Donald Trump parades this moron…

Musk and others who are in Trump’s orbit as potential cabinet and “czar” positions don’t have an adequate background to perform their duties but have convinced themselves they do. This coming administration will be known by historians as “The Dunning-Kruger Presidency”.

Anyone who thinks unrealistic timelines are an effective motivation tool deserves to fail.

I heard an interview from a former NASA higher-up the other day. He made the point that if NASA had as many failures as Space-X, congress would have cancelled their budget in a heartbeat. So there is a reason NASA takes a long time and costs a lot of money, their financial overlords have zero tolerance for failure and…

Boeing, SpaceX, and Lockheed all doing their parts to remind us why it’s important to let the government do critical work like this instead of companies where mission accomplishment is at best on par with, and a lot of times secondary, to shareholder dividends