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we get a monitor in a few months...

'Loud pedal' 'VMax' 'Into the red zone.' Oh God help me. I'm going to have to trudge through the usual gamut of lazy, slightly shit oblique references to driving and being a gearhead.

Or they make a lot more profit by replacing a unit (in terms of labor charge per labor time + parts profit) than diagnosing and replacing components. I allllmost felt bad when it took a Pep Boys mechanic 4+ hours to replace the starter motor in my girlfriend's '99 Sentra 1.6L that he only wrote up as a 1-hour job, but…

...then frankly, why is Toyota making it when they already have the technology for and are already making battery electric vehicles? They and other OEMs have entire groups dedicated to studying the exact point you bring up, which is why I said "are still overall more effecient." You can argue with me about whether…

You can't get someone to take your money? People these days... It's like when I go to the auto parts store and try to buy a part for a Frankenstein project and the guy behind the counter won't give it to me because he doesn't think it fits. So aggravating.

Let's not forget the much more affordable I6 version that came in the non-US e36 M3! S50B32! The McLaren's S70/2 was basically just a V12 of the S50B32. No joke, I think there's not even a ton of difference in the cylinder head. Makes sense because the S70 made what, 650hp, give or take depending on application? This…

This is a good point, and it makes me sad. Why should I have to be accountable for my past actions? WHY?!

I'm going to go ahead and assume intentional ambiguity in that last sentence :)

Those are some substantial rotors. My goodness.

I think a popular idea for the stations is extracting the hydrogen from another source at the fueling station, thus avoiding the need to transport huge quantities of hydrogen to the station. There are many ways to do this, some are pretty cool. Look up "pressure swing adsorption" if you aren't already familiar.

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Transmissions are expensive.

You're forgetting the step where the electricity is stored and drained from a battery. Hydrogen vehicles are overall still more efficient (although not by orders of magnitude or anything) than battery electric vehicles.

Buuuuuuttttt..... we've got a long way to go before we'll believe hydrogen is actually the future. It's why the headline "Carmakers prepare to shift to hydrogen fuel cells" is a little sketchy to me.

We'll see if anyone buys that argument.

Hey, there are lots of us!

1980 Peugeot 103. The French mopeds (Peugeot, Motobecane) are mostly CVTs, but only with single variating pulleys and swinging engines. They are wonderfully weird. And FAST if you know what you're doing. I'm just scratching the surface and have hit 55mph on a 50cc motor. 70+ is possible with 50cc on a French moped.

Yes. It has only one variating pulley, the rear pulley is a fixed diameter. The front pulley uses weighted swing arms to provide an axial force on the variating sheave. The closing of the sheaves adds tangential force (i.e. belt tension). Since the belt is a fixed length and width, to account for the changing…

The sound is totally, utterly wrong for most of the cars.

My moped has a manual CVT, get with the 20th century