I’m sure auto manufacturers will be super duper interested in continuing to produce cars for a state whose population is 10%ish smaller than that of Washington DC.

Woah buddy. You gotta license those excess X’s from PC part manufacturers.

Most problems with the rotary in the 13b format were due to the variations in load on the motor from mixed driving conditions and owners.

It’d be interesting to compare real-world to real world.

Woops, 300 stuck in my head for the MX-30

Four things:

midenginC8idengiLooking at some installation videos, it appears that the front end is stock, minus the lip, and just overfendered to the grills. I’d assume cooling is still factory functional for the C8 Vette.

I’m all about some electric Dajiban action.

ND. The C8 Pandem kit on the C8 does wide body better.

Ah, yes, let’s incentivize purchasing things that cause our already deteriorating infrastructure to deteriorate faster. 

Absolutely. I’m certainly not against it. It’s just that it seems the gearhead consensus every time one of these articles runs appears to be that there isn’t a need now to develop battery tech further. The reality is that this stuff is cool, but it is a stopgap that uses existing infrastructure and durable goods.

Yea but you need to build out the energy infrastructure to get that surplus energy.

CATL is promising 80%+ of the capacity of LiIon for their new sodium ion batteries and full scale production this year. Which is why I mention them specifically.

My understanding is that it takes a bunch of electric to produce the fuel. The problem is that if you are going to generate that green electric anyway, it’s way more efficient to push it into a battery then to build carbon chains. This presumes that batteries are cheap however.

I get what you’re saying but this might be a situation where more money won’t necessarily make things progress faster.

I’m finally going to track down the squeak going over the washboard that passes for road in eastern PA from my wifes XTerra. There aren’t that many things left under it that I haven’t already replaced.

I’d like to invite you to join us as part of next year’s Hogwarts class.

A tune for my MS3 with a 3" intake and new fuel pump internals was $250 USD in 2013. I was in it for about $500 for around 30 hp with parts and the tune.

They didn’t just shoot it this time. They shot both feet, looked at what happened, reloaded, and shot both feet again. Then shot the dog just to make sure the gun was working.

That’s true but it is always a long term project. Mazda for example took close to a decade to get all of their dealers on board with the new look, market strategy, and standards of servicing. That transition was painful to watch even as a customer of Mazda that ended up using 4 or 5 different dealerships in different…