> The other option is infinite gears,

The first use of a thermostat involving a feedback control loop is circa 1620, a car has several, that setup has none, short of the meatbag operating it deciding it’s to cold or blowy.

My observation when this was new was that it was likely to eclipse their profit for the previous decade if not more. That’s like 100 billion dollars. Frankly if the penalties were not in fact large then everyone would look at flagrant violations of the law as a cost of doing business. willfull cheating on this scale…

among other things... also noise.

Nah, all the boxes are purchased by companies entertaining customers and employees and then deducted as a marketing expense.

it’s only got one :p which is 9.73:1 or therebouts

yeah that accounts for the somewhat lower than p90d 3.2 second 0-60 but it’s still 700+ foot pounds of torque once the tires hook up

really when they start shipping people will have to start evaluating their numbers...

It will not deploy below an angular momentum of 15MPH. 15MPH is still a pretty decent hit. Above that it really should have deployed.

This is why we have a standardized albeit flawed benchmark in the form of epa 5-cycle testing. So that at least we have numbers that we can all agree were derived in the same way.

is the car cooled to 7c while the champange is installed?

Given than the total worlds production of palladium is about 300 tons annually catalytic converters are recycled.

the catalyst in an scr is a metalic ceramic or zeolite...

we really missed the opportunity in about 1961-63 for an aircooled diesel utility vehicle built on a 38HP porsche tractor motor.

put it next to a lotus 7

The one I’m most familiar with is cat 3512b which is about 1.5MW at full load.

> It rides on steelies,

Given it’s a relatively small aircraft, it allows for a low wing compared to an under-wing engine. being outboard it doesn’t have to contend with turbulence created by either the wing or the fueselage. and putting it behind the cabin reduces noise for the occupants. putting them over the wing means the center of mass…

>Mitsuoka Orochi Neon Genesis Evangelion

By the same virtue in 10 years there will be 4WD electric sedans with ~700ft/lbs on tap at 0rpm lining up at stoplights.