Trust me, if a brand-new, high-profile combustion car just caught on fire like this, we’d write about that, too

The brilliance of the light from the ionized gasses will attract my view up. I just don’t care to see it.

I think you’re right - van-like BEV conveyances will start to get more common, particularly in urban areas. I’m here for it - the packaging is so much better than these silly compact crossovers.

I’ve never wanted a concept to be real as much as this.

I know it’s a small, European country, but it seems like $1B would never have financed 270 miles of freeway.

And orange carnival barker presidents.

It depends. Your stack up analysis above assumes worst case, all in the same direction, linear tolerance variation. In reality, some of those tolerances across the statistical population will cancel one another out. If they are using a statistical 3D tolerance stack software (which I've used pretty extensively…

My panels are closing in on 2 mWh produced. 

Electric cars have zero tailpipe emissions. 

How about the BREUnion?

They could take the lead and call it the BUnion.

Maybe they could call it like a “Northern Hemisphere Union,” or “E-Union” or something. I don’t know, just spit-balling here.

You know what Britain should do? They should form some type of union with the rest of Europe. Then they could sell their cars to Europe, and the rest of Europe could sell their products to the UK. Maybe have a set of agreed-upon rules and regulations so it would be a level playing field, and work on policies that…

...I doubt they truly feel like helping Ghosn escape was inherently a bad thing to do.

Did you just learn about basic tolerance stack-up? Your crude worse case analysis is utterly inappropriate for an assembly of such complexity and performance requirements. Not only wouldn’t VW overlook tolerance stack-up analysis, the notion is laughable to be honest, but they would apply a much more appropriate…

“Let’s assume +/-.001" tolerances for all above (which is very tight for regular machining of parts)”

I mean, any HAAS can hold .001, we reject anything that far out. Very tight is more like .0005 but still achievable consistently.

Did you add up the tolerances or use sum of squares? Generally they use the latter as it gives a better approximation when considering variation part to part.

This 14 dimension stack look bad when considered arithmetically, but consider that likelihood of all those dimensions being at the extreme end at the same time is maybe 1 in billion or more - Cpk 1.66 and six sigma for 14 dimension stack. Additionally, stack does not really flow like you indicate, but rather features…