The same place they pulled the price and delivery schedule from.
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Through all this it seems like Lucid is the anti-Nikola. They make promises after they’ve proven with prototypes, and they execute before asking for retail investor dollars.
The Plaid CyberUte can be called ‘Maloo 2: Electric Boogaloo’
Step 1: Buy Holden
Well, unlike Nikola, Bollinger has actually made prototypes. That said, it’s an extremely expensive platform as they’ve been marketing it so I’m not sure they’ll find much of a market for it against the Rivian and Cybertruck.
A hydrogen pickup truck is really more of a Shelbyville idea...
Pickup ... D’oh!
Is that the full-scale NASA tunnel at Moffat Field? That’s a very nice tunnel. I think they’ve got some cool supersonic tunnels there, too.
Yup, Nikola repeatedly lied to gain investor dollars (that’s why they’re currently under SEC and DOJ investigation and the subject of several class-action investor lawsuits). They lied about the Nikola One being functional in 2016, they lied about producing solar power at their facility, they lied about having…
If they’re still tying themselves together with literal frauds like Nikola, GM will make it all that much clearer how desperate they are. The next few weeks should be telling on that front. They clearly have some tech, but the major questions are a) is it competitive? and b) can they produce it at scale?
Warning! Do not taunt the Ford Mobile Charger...
It’s a classic Hash ‘n Smash ... ‘n Dash.
4th Gear:
Yeah, it’s worth noting that the upgrades to the trunk, glass, heat pump (not to mention the recent free range increase) really just make the normal $38k model that much better of a deal. Not terribly surprising that they are getting rid of the $35k off-menu model for a while until they sell enough of the…
Right. I’m biased since I’m an engineer who designs wind tunnels for a living (though I’m not an aerodynamicist), but it seems like a bad idea to ban wind tunnels because it’s just forcing the designers to use different, worse, and potentially much more expensive methods of validating their designs like on-vehicle…
In other words: HD is running out of money and they’re retreating to their core competency of making slow, poor-handling nostalgia-scooters.
Very interesting. There’s lots of subtle hints that they’re going all in on EVs soon. I think they got burned by dieselgate at the perfect time to shock them enough to get real about the future.
Well, as a practical matter, CFD results aren’t ‘scrapped’ if they disagree with the wind tunnel results. They’re more ‘tweaked’ to adjust some of the necessary assumptions to try to get to the point where they agree, then making the remaining analysis more reliable. CFD is ‘pretty good’ if the aero engineer has lots…
Exactly. Big tunnels take big power. That’s why scale models are generally used. Wind tunnels capable of 1/4 scale are generally well under 1MW of continuous power at automotive airspeeds. It’s also worth noting that a test doesn’t really take that long, so it’s not really that much power unless you’re running a…