Jalopnik loves the electric Morgan three wheeler though (EV3)- that thing has character

1st Gear: The Bolt Is A Big Deal

In all the articles that claim huge losses on the Bolt, none of the claims were ever attributed beyond “sources familiar with the matter”

“the Nikola trucks have a big brick of batteries at the bottom producing 320 kWh of energy”

kWh is an amount of energy (storage)

“Doesn’t remove the fact that the pack will decay over a relatively short amount of time”

Ten+ years? Battery packs in existing cars have been lasting on par with normal engines.

The operate in a competing space.

No, I don’t think anyone is looking into it. The reason is that none of the technology is new, and none of it has ever been known to cause any issues. Electric motors are in everything you own, seems fine.

“But if Teslas don’t use any type of gear reduction (i.e. electric motor directly drives the wheel), that means the power output is constant; at a standstill, the Tesla actually puts a very small amount of torque to the ground compared to a 700hp gasoline car like a Hellcat “

no, it means that at a standstill the Tesla…

Electric and hydrogen use much of the same technology (both are fully electric drive trains). The only difference is that hydrogen is essentially an incredibly complex battery.

Doug,

One issue, Musk has said that the base Model X will only be $5k more than the base Model S. The current prices are for the fancy-pants versions that are getting sold on pre-order. We won’t see a base Model X until sometime next year.

I’ve heard that they added the urea system to make the cheat more believable. They realized it would be inconvenient for people to refill the system as often as needed, so it only activates during testing, and at a very low level at other times. If it actually worked all the time, it would need a larger reservoir/much…

I have to agree with you everywhere but the slide rule trashing, slide rules took us to the moon! (I think it was more material science).