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2000s Multipla in my mind always had it looked like manboobs, or baps as we call them. The lights are like large nipples. I found this funny to point out on the street growing up as a kid.

Not sure why not. It’s capable for high performance loads, I’m sure it should handle approx or above 200 hp load from a generator generating amps.

The hybrid it was sold with was definitely interesting.

Everyone clam yo tits. Remember, there’s a Tesla ‘gigafactory 3’ factory (without any Chinese joint venture) being built in Shanghai. When completed by around October it will produce the highly contested $35,000 cars, understandably because they’ll be built in China.

I don’t think none of you guys who are arguing that ‘‘electric doesn’t mean its reliable’’ understand rail transport too well. Not least because most older metros from before the 90s are brush motored using much older inverters and resistors for +500V.

And isn’t NYC metro (which I’m guessing is the prime ample in mind…

It’s a single private car in a tunnel. That’s what made it so hard for me to love this Boring idea. If Elon sought this as a way to reduce the cost of tunneling for mass transit - like a damned train, then he’d be on a winner with this one.
There are many cities that are dying for a cheaper underground solution *cough*…

Almost 9 years later had Jalopnik discovered this? Damn.. hell and I pretty much forgot about thus and the rage there was when it was deleted in 2015.

It’s an MPV, relax. Did you forget about the Citroen C4 Picasso all of a sudden?

I’m shure MI6 snuck in a turbo range extender in there.

Wish we knew. All of the die-hards seem to have rushed into the Tesla ‘fan-base’ once the Iron Man billionaire started making headlines with his more famous and talked about SpaceX. ~2013/14?

for the electric motor to be the sole source of power for the rear wheels

A lot of plug-in advocates were confused wondered at Toyota too, whether it was missed engineering opportunity or snobbery. Remember, Toyota did make two iterations of the RAV4 EV, but ‘sold’ in numbers strictly meant to meet CARB credits.

For its first plug-in hybrid, the 2012 ‘Pip’ had a meager 4.4kWh 11 mile range pa…

Granted a decade ago people didn’t know how hybrid power numbers add up, but now it’s flatly funny how it’s still a mystery to our American friends.

ICE HP + HV battery assist HP = total HP.
The efficient beauty of hybrids lost on many is that it can use anywhere as low as 0.5 HP to get moving, whereas any lone…

This makes me worried for other small Li-ion hybrids, like the Nissan e-Power. If they had proper coolant ducting, would the cost and engineering benefit of Li-ion vs NiMH be lost?

Toyota as early as 2003 was also sued by the patent owners of Ovionic’s batteries to stop everyone from using their patented NiMH chemistry, primarily for Panasonic and Toyota. Threatening the RAV4EV (95A-hrs) to the Prius (6.5A-hrs) and many other EVs from the late-90s... In 2004 Toyota and its supplier Panasonic…

EU Toyota sells the Prius differently than US Toyota. I’m sure between the 28/27 member states there are differences. In Ireland at least the gammons try to sell the Prius as a non-Lexus premium badge. Base (mid-trim) price was always +€30,000 which was why hybrids never sold well here in the 2000s in Europe (except…

Atkinson cycle. Using a 13:1 compression ratio but on the up-stroke for ignition, the intake valves are delayed open, and the air-fuel mix is pressured out into the intake manifold (where it reduced vacuum looses for other cylinders in-taking air). A Miller cycle just uses a supercharger - but only because without it…

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It’s 2019 and you guys have only started to come to know this??