You’ve gone full Tracy, never go full Tracy.

Omg, 14 cars and a bus, someones gone a little koo koo for cocoa puffs. Time to re-asses and reduce the numbers, or buy a parking lot.

Suzuki Every Turbo - 108,122
Honda Beat - 73,404
Bus - 301,100
2005 Smart Fortwo - 153,800
2008 Smart Fortwo - 106,100
2012 Fortwo - 103,750
2016 Fortwo - 47,600
2006 Touareg - 80,880
2008 Touareg - 55,970
Quattro - 133,056
Jetta - 180,001
Phaeton - 116,450
2005 Passat - 180,454
2004 Passat TDI - 240,019
2004 Passat W8 - 175,700

Tota…

You have become David Tracy with better taste in vehicles

Having lived through that era, I think that era, I think that “Sport Size” means “too large on the outside and too small on the inside.”

A full charge still requires ~70-100kwh. If you want to achieve it in 5 minutes you need (60/5)*(100kwh) of power so you are at 1200kw of constant power. Even at 800v you are at (1,200,000w/800v)= 1500a. Still not small. At some point, purdue may just be testing how far they can push the tech

Rule of the Interwebs #176

I look forward to the first time I stop at a Buc-ees to use the bathrooms next to the Tokamak. 

I don’t know if 100% of EVs adhere to this, but all the ones I’ve looked into don’t let you drive if the charging cable is connected.

I would imagine that the chargers themselves would have a localized charge storage. So the charger builds charge within the limitations of the grid, e.g., at 50-200 amps peak, over the course of an hour or so and then just keeps the charge topped off until it is needed to be used.

Pfft.  A simple metal hook connecting to a regular old steel cable can instantly charge to 1.21 gigawatts.  

Thanks for calling out the unnecessary hate. It will be a fine car, well built, and fun in an era of bland greyscale crossovers.

Wait. At what point has the Integra ever been a visually impressive car?

I like it. I won’t buy it, but I like it.

That’s exceptionally ugly. I expect that it will sell like crazy.

Which means you’re basically dealing with two separate springs, one above and one below the wacky part.

The load would be spread relatively even across the entire spring. Coil spring is just a torsion bar that going round and round, you can vary the stiffness just by varying the pitch (distance between two adjacent coils), which translate into the length of the coil wire per height of the spring; longer = softer.

Engineering by my little brother who DESTROYED MY METAL SLINKY!!!

No, I didn’t see it because ABC/ESPN chose to not air it in the USA.

In some alternate universe, they merge with GMA, let Gordon Murray do what ever he wants, and call the T50 the “McLaren F2"