Until gas prices hike and the American peoples wallets can pay for the bailouts of the companies, whose CEOs just signed that letter.

That would be kind of fun. Imagine a Model S with something like that!

Well actually it is for other reasons than full torque at 0rpm. It actually is the wide rev band and a good overall efficiency, that negates the need for multiple gears. The high start up torque just negates the need for a conventional clutch.

Sorry I read Midwest United states and that seemed like enough information.

I thought snow was an indoor thing in Florida? The more you know...

Oh come on, thinking really can’t be that hard, can it? You read 36, in the middle of summer in Australia, and assumed it was Fahrenheit?

Put some classic music on and I think that could replace at least figure skating in the Olympics.

To be honest, that has nothing to do with electric vehicles. When not even Alfa puts a manual in its sports sedan, you just know they are dead.

Have you ever seen a list where the C3 beats a Supra? The Supra is not just better at being good, its also better at being worse.

What a stupid decision, Europe should be their main market for the Giulia and a wagon is just much more popular over here. And no matter what they say the Stelvio might handle good, or even very good, for a SUV!

Trust me Joe, no car is a chick magnet. Especially not in high school. If you really want to appeal to girls, buy a dog, not a car.

I only do motors. Batteries isn’t something my company does. Motors, inverters, DCDC and in vehicle chargers. And I seriously doubt you actually made a functioning battery, that exceeds Teslas energy storage, but weights halve of that. Power wise, it would be easy, two Chevy Volt packs should do fine, as far as I have…

I am an electric engineer for electric propulsion :D I am actually working on electric vehicles and plug in hybrids.

Semis use 4 drive wheels for the same reason cars use 4 drive wheels, more traction. A semi Truck has a much higher load, than a passenger vehicle. So they need more axels. And if they just used 1 axel to drive, F=N*u would be too low. Mercedes made the G-Wagon have 6 wheels is simply for driving on unstable surfaces…

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So in your opinion the used car market will be on fire because of electric vehicles? You should have said so. I could have saved 2 comments. I agree that some of those last V8s will probably become collectables. But your comments until now made it seem that those cars would be something totally new and unseen. Which…

Actually the new P100D says on its Ludicrous+ readout 578kW battery power and 515kW combined maximum motor power. So the X P100D should have 690hp. The P85D, had 532hp, since its battery limited the motor output.

Ok then a Shelby GT500, American performance, 500hp and you can get a 2008 model for 25,000. And a 550hp 2012 model year can be had for less than 30k. Or if you are more of a Camaro guy, a 2012 ZL1, with all of its glorious 580hp can be yours. For 30-35k you could get a nice one from the model years 2012-2014. Or a…

More wheels actually solves nothing. The tires contact area is proportional to the vehicles weight. A 4WD car just accelerates better, since it powers all wheels. That’s why RWD motorcycles accelerate as hard as RWD cars, if both have the same power to weight ratio.

The reason why you can’t do that today, besides the incredible budget the competitors would have to spend, is aerodynamics and grip. You could build a vehicle that just sticks to the ground, while totally destroying the airflow for the car behind you, so there won’t be any overtaking.