There are some supersonic planes supposedly in development. But with the cost of fuel these days, it will always remain a niche. 

Euro vans (and their derivative pickup trucks) have engines that are sized way more appropriately to the job.
For instance, the Volkswagen Crafter can be delivered with engines with 102 to 177hp for a vehicle that can have a total vehicle weight of 3000 to 3500kg (but is also allowed to haul a trailer on top of that).
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It’s absurdly well engineered, up to a ratcheting mechanism that you can use to lift the behemoth onto its centre stand.
Millyard has a ton of videos about it on his youtube channel, go check it out.

Plenty of people care, i’d say 60% cares to a degree. But when the people in power don’t care, it’s easy for the people who only care slightly to feel absolved of their responsibility. And i’d say 75% of people in power don’t care, so those who do care don’t stand a chance of implementing structural changes that…

1. Not all cycling is exercise.
2. Adrenaline will go down if you don’t have to fear for your life.
3. There is no overreaction to being almost murdered by an 1500kg heavy block of steel. You can literally compare it to someone accidentally (or, more likely, intentionally) waving a loaded gun at you. Wouldn’t you…

Rowan Atkinson is a boomer with boomer opinions. 

Even though my own bike tops out at 202km/h exactly, not anywhere close to the BMW - and i’m always hampered by the lack of twisty roads in my area, i recognize so much of the feelings you’re describing.
Riding bikes is amazing. There is truly nothing like it - at least, not for civillians i guess.
You just go.…

Smart Roadsters have surprisingly good seats, if you’re not too large.
Volvo 340s (and probably the bigger ones from that era too) have the best seats i’ve tried so far. Soft but supportive, fabric that keeps you in place in corners.
Honerable mention for the back bench of a Seat Toledo 1. You wouldn’t expect it from…

If the people inside aren’t dead, it just means that they haven’t completed a circuit (yet).
The risk is there, but it’s trivial to give people a voltage tester and tap it to the car to see if something is live.

No. The limitation is not charge speed (you can easily charge a EV battery with sometimes over 100kW so 1kW is trivial).

I’ve always wondered why someone could possibly want a monorail. But it just recently hit me, they’re per definition elevated above the road and sidewalk, so the chance of one hitting someone is extremely small.

I saw a motorcyclist fooling around with his bike (old british 1950s thing) on the highway. His chain ran off.
I stopped, and offered to look out for him. When he gave up fucking around with the chain, and he called for a tow, i had to tell him to get on the safe side of the guide rail/barrier.
People don’t always…

They could do as Citroen did with the CX in the 1970s. When there is hydraulic pressure, a clutch between the steering wheel and the steering rack/box is opened. All steering then happens through the hydraulic steering system, no physical connection between the wheel and the mechanical bits.
When there is a hydraulics…

IDK how much difference there is between the 1st gen Renault 5 and the later Supercinq ones, but the later Renault 5 (and vehicles based on it) were pretty damn good. I haven’t owned one myself, but 3 people i know had one or one of the vans based on one in the 2010s.
Privately owned wheel chair transport vans…

Light weight and no power steering.

OK boomer

What probably has a huge influence on range, is having a fairly limited amount of power. I think that is the case with this Mercedes. I thought i read somewhere it’s about 50kW, and its acceleration is comparable to that of a european city car.
If you design the thing for 50kW (and that amount of power with such a…

225 a month? Aren’t electricity meters to measure (and pay for) energy usage mandatory in the USA?

Never underestimate an english guy with a shed.

If repair costs were so bad, they would also have a big influence on European vans. Still, despite mandatory emissions testing every few years, diesel is apparently still cheaper to operate, for delivery vans. Diesel is 30 cents cheaper per liter than gasoline (1,70 VS 2,00 or thereabouts) but you pay more than double…