We can’t tell for sure, but it’s likely something like that: ABS sensors provide wheel speed. The central control unit knows how much power the inverter is asked to send from battery pack to the engines. Alternatively, I would expect that the car electronics include a accelerometer and a pitch/yaw sensor, which would…

ingenext has a plug-in hardware solution that works by intercepting and altering CAN bus signals. That’s the only way little boxes like this can operate: by intercepting commands and altering them before they are passed on. Their (proven wrong) claim that it cannot remotely be detected also means that they apply the…

Jason, how is it possible that you, recognized car trivia nerd, forget to mention the 930 cc 110 horsepower supercharged turbocharged Nissan March Superturbo? It was showcased on Jalopnik back in 2014: https://jalopnik.com/is-this-twincharged-nissan-the-most-forgotten-homologat-1653317711

Power generation isn’t the issue. The infrastructure used for getting the power to the charging ports is.

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I actually quite liked some of the earlier episodes, but the novelty quickly wore off. There’s only so much you can show when it comes to getting stuff to ferment, distill the result, keep it hidden all the time and fence the product.

I have a business trip planned for next week. A short one hour hop from Amsterdam Schiphol to Hannover in Germany, return flight on the same day. The way things look NOW is OK. There is no government recommendation against travel to Germany.

Wow! This isn’t Crack Pipe territory here, this is Industrial Waste Incinerator territory.

There is a clear disctinction between tuning for more performance, where possibly exceeding pollution limits is an unintended by-product, and tuning specifically for dumping a massive overdose of diesel into the engine to roll coal, where pollution *IS* the goal.

It’s interesting that the Discovery Channel, a network which once focused on science, technology, and history has devolved in a way to air shitty reality television and science ignorant programming like this. Shame, that.

Possible, but i don’t think it’s very likely. The angle between the ports and unknown block is 90° so a fully upright block makes the most sense. 

It would make sense if it's a two-stroke application and you'd need room to attach check valves for each port to prevent backdraft. 

Those things, tw0-stroke and oiling, should be regarded separately.

This thing is screwing up my brain.It looks like it’s from a straight six but what kind of engine has ports (likely intake -because this thing is Al alloy) at different heights??

Some straight 6-es are actually 3+3 in-line. The Honda CBX line-6, for instance, had its timing chain in the middle:

So: probably for a straight 6. Obviously triple carb, probably downdraft, and, guessing based on the letterbox shape of the pretty nicely equal-length runners, it may be for a 2-stroke engine.

Koenigsegg, OTOH, has the engine only supplying a little over 1/3 of the total power output, so when the battery is depleted, it becomes a 600 HORSEPOWER FRONT-WHEEL-DRIVE car

If there is hybridisation, the battery will be replaced but it won’t be original

For starters, it was a first attempt at a product size outside of our regular production range, so there was an element of business secret to it. Second, a steel mill typically doesn’t operate on a very artistic level. Third, it was just over 4 metric ton of perfectly good low carbon steel which could be put to good…