Nah it would have been cheating on this test too since only the front wheels would have been rolling (part of their defeat software). it’s implausible after fall 2015 the the volkwagen engineers involved would not have known that the vehicle they provided was not representative of their omissions under normal…
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joelja
The declining value of the dollar, which is apparently public policy these days is not so great if you need to buy raw materials or finished parts overseas....
no, because carbon is a pretty good conductor.
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the mach counter will stay stubornly below .10
Which american luxury marque still has a 2+2 convertible?
Any engine that can accelerate a mass to a significant fraction let alone in this case multiple of the speed of a light is a weapon. The failure is one of imagination since any military doctrine for space combat would have to account for that.
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> They are attempting to develop a high-speed tire for this car with companies that currently produce tires for aircraft landing gear.
Satellite assest tracking and manangement is done for much cheaper assets then 300 million dollar airplanes with 240 people on board. In fact, if Malaysian airlines had simply payed for the management pakage from Boeing that would have been done as a matter of course [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Fli…
Backup duty cycle generators typically have a service life of around 500 operating hours. so anything the reduces your dependance on them back to emergencies only is going to radically reduce your costs and push up your reliability.
in a modern car, excess kinetic energy can be stored for later use instead of simply shed as heat which is what engine braking as well as brakes do.
List price on a 1985 325e would have been something like 21,105. using the CPI calculator, about $50k today. Compared to stock market returns that asking price is probably not that great a resturn especially once you account for storage and insurance.
electrically driven turbo chargers can be accelerated independently of engine output.
If you live in texas or ohio then you coal percentage is substantially higher, if you don’t in can be quite a bit lower. CA looks like this:
parisienne parallel parking is a contact sport. so even if you don’t yourself colide with anything coming back to find a Peugeot 107 or polo wedged in a 3 meter spot is not unusual.
Depending on the vehicle. there’s a giant 3-phase induction motor and an appropriately sized DC to AC switching power supply. this is pretty noisy in the AM radio band. particularly as that radio and the rest of the components are coupled to the chassis ground
if one assumes this is somewhat more efficient then a leaf for example .15kwh per km then 40km is a 6kwh battery or about 1/5 the size of the leaf battery or 1/10th the size of the small tesla battery, that would put it in the 30-35KG range. the size is probably not far off.