Also fair!
Cory Stansbury
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I should have elaborated. ...As compared to the V8 cars used for these demos. This year’s F1 cars are quite a step up. That said, a 410 sprint is more like 950 HP with less drivetrain loss than an F1 car (no transmission...just a diff). I wouldn’t be surprised if WHP was similar. Weight is also around 1400 pounds…
Used Volts are getting very cheap and are quite reliable (showcase car for GM)...just a thought.
I’d also like to see him in a 410 sprint car. Power:weight that shames an F1 car, on-dirt, sideways, with crazy “alignment,” if you can even call it that!
We should also remember than the drivetrain in an ICE has a loss of 12-15% (being generous), whereas a single reduction gear is well under 10%, effectively being equivalent to the differential alone.
And the legendary German electronics!
It’s not about helping with wind and solar, it’s about reality. Reality is (and I work in energy storage), building out massive amounts of wind and solar and either curtailing it or storing it with massive losses just doesn’t make any sense. We simply are not at a point where it makes sense to try and build out a…
That’s all well and good, but the efficiency in doing so is atrocious. You’re better off throttling plants that storing energy with a round trip efficiency of 30%.
I suspected there was a reason Ford was so keen on self-driving technology.
Of course curb weight is an issue at speed. If the aero is right... and Johnny has been doing this for a long time, so it’s probably pretty good... the entire goal would be to have only enough aero to keep it stable, which is not anything crazy; maybe even just keeping unity is enough (lift is typically the thing…
I thought the whole point was that the expanding fireball from the spark compresses the rest, causing it to simultaneously combust. I don’t think they have multiple injection events to achieve it.
The other part may be that a Veyron/Chiron weighs just slightly less than many countries. Weight is hard on a tire. With that said, I doubt Bohmer worked hand-in-hand with engineering to develop his tires, so I’m sure there was plenty of “hoping-for-the-best” here.
Don’t disagree...but by 2025 I’m not sure that gap will be enough to really matter. This is especially true when the cost delta is factored in...H2 is really expensive per mile compared to electricity.
Can you imagine Uncle Rob with hydrogen? Would be much much more difficult.
Valid point. It would be tremendously fun to watch.
I think STP are usually champion labs. They have had pretty questionable quality in the past...I personally wouldn’t buy one. Fram got a lot of heat for their fiber end-caps in their cheap-o line. I haven’t heard of any problems in a long time and they actually have pretty respectable filtering numbers, so they may be…
Not a joke. It actually does work apparently and filters wayyyy down in size. Being a bypass filter, it only handles a small amount of oil. It turns out that forcing oil through a whole roll of toilet paper really filters it!
Race ‘em at the same time. Heck, throw NASCAR and a Formula Drift event on the track at the same time. Now that sounds entertaining.
Ultra is absolutely in par with anything out there. I think Champion and Fram are now the same company anyway, so they share the same resources. I run Mobil 1 filters, Amsoil EaO, Fram Ultra, and AC Delco UPRs (basically M1 filters at 1/2 the price on Rockauto). The particle counts on BITOG show these all to be about…