General under use of the Voltec platform. My Gen 1 Volt was great and that powertrain could have been put in a crossover or small SUV with no changes. The batteries were very robust and capable of way more power output than the Volt asks from them, with slight motor upgrade it could have gone into a S-10 sized pickup…

The Elmiraj especially, as it was one of the few concept cars that looked like it really only need minor tweaks to be consumer ready. I’m sure there was a lot of work under the skin to make that happen, but most concepts are some designer’s pipe dream, and the Elmiraj was more beautiful than all of them and something…

As far as I’m aware lack of an adequate compensation package is not what’s keeping non-wealthy people from becoming major company executives.

I suspect they carved most of the tread off before the run. The tread is going to be a weakpoint when you’re talking about g forces of the tire tearing itself apart. Its just rubber with nothing reinforcing it, and its dead weight at the outer edge, the worst place for it, adding extra load to the tire carcass.

Under normal circumstances I’d say its also fine if you have charging at work but not at home, having done that myself, but this year changes things a bit on that front.

This looks like it also contains the inverter and should entirely (or nearly) in the space of just the transmission and bell housing. That means you have the entire rest of the engine compartment plus the space of the gas tank behind the rear axle.  Any Chevy with a V8 (C8 excluded) should fit this and a full pack no…

A new Model Y Performance could be had for less, with more range, better performance, heat pump, no problematic falcon wing doors, faster Supercharging... unless you really need the extra space that’s what I’d do instead.

Inefficiency is heat. Even if nothing else changes, the shortened path of travel means less resistance means more efficiency means less heat. With cell discharging when you’re talking about a process that’s already roughly 95% efficient, small percent increases in efficiency are large percent decreases in heat.

Battery cooling is absolutely the current limiting factor for continuous power. Watch Model 3 Nurburgring videos, the motors and inverters never hit heat limitations. A fast driver can make the battery heat soak by the end of the lap with regen disabled and significantly early if regen is on. The weak link might…

With electrics the gap between peak power and continuous power is all about cooling. A tabless cell has the potential to create much less heat and disperse it much faster, I suspect battery overheating will be much less of an issue than on current cars. Detail dump below.

The heat produced of a cell is proportional to…

54% range increase is literally the first thing in the first slide.

“It’s absurd that anyone with $150,000 can just place an order for this level of rolling vehicular manslaughter from the factory. If you want to run faster than 12s, you should have to build it yourself.”

Do you also want me to get off your lawn?

Model 3 came out on time but ramped up slower than expected. Model Y released ahead of schedule, so was the Shanghai factory. Elon Time is real, but aside from the autonomy stuff they’re improving on average compared to what it used to be.

Ignorance is bliss.

The tax rebate is absolutely an incentive for purchase. I’m not affluent by almost anyone’s definition, when I purchased a Chevy Volt it was because the total cost of ownership made sense for me, and included in that was the tax refund. I would not have purchased the car without it.

Admittedly it’d be a much better…

I think this is great, but its a stretch to see this as any proof that Ford is ready for the EV market. Neither the motors nor the inverters are their own work, battery pack undisclosed but probably a small high-power low-energy setup that wouldn’t have nearly the range necessary for a street car. Its clearly a step…

Its a smart move. Stock is up 500% for the year, dilute shares by ~1% in exchange for ~20% of annual revenue. When you only operate two car factories and are in the process of doubling that capacity you take easy money when it presents itself.

This and garbage trucks. Drive 100 feet, stop, accelerate to 15mph for 100 feet, stop, all day long, diesel engine idling the entire time.

Their insistence on episodes following personal stories instead of events completely ruined the coverage of last year’s German GP, one of the most interesting races in years. They split the different “stories” from the race across multiple episodes instead of editing it down into 15-20 minutes of intense drama.

“Are you telling me I can charge 50% battery on a model3 in 10 minutes or less?”

Just about. At a 250kw supercharger you get about 15 miles of range per minute for the bottom half of the battery.

We’d plug in, go to the bathroom, refill our water bottles, get back to the car and unplug, generally spending 0 minutes…