I wasn’t counting anything more than the drive units, inverters, gearboxes, etc- just the drivelines specifically. Also, the diesel engine weight I reference includes the huuuge transmissions in those trucks. I should have been more descriptive.

Yup! It’s honestly a pretty cool comeback story. That notorious downhill promo was over three years ago, the founder who was recently found guilty of fraud was ousted over two years ago and hasn’t had any involvement with the company since, the SEC has closed their probe into the company, and the product they’re…

Nikola has been delivering 300+ mi BEV trucks to customers for a few months. They’ve built a little over 100 so far, delivering to dealers, with several different major pilot deployments with drayage fleets. They have alpha versions of their 500+mi FCEV in testing deployments right now, and recently unveiled the…

Hi! Automotive engineer here! Seeing lots of folks debate about how much heavier this thing will be versus a diesel truck. For starters, keep in mind that they make it clear this is a day-cab. Day-cabs tend to weigh between 10k and 20k pounds with fuel, no trailer.

Well if someone is using high-beams more because their DRLs aren’t bright enough, they aren’t using their low-beams and THATS the problem. DRLs are never active when low-beams/high-beams are active. You may be thinking of Front Position lamps, which are about a third as bright as DRLs, can be activated manually with…

I agree with the rear turn signals- at the very least, if the turn signals are red they shouldnt be optically combined with the brake light.

I wont contest your first sentence, but for the record, NHTSA released their ruling on adaptive headlamps in February. Its not written into FMVSS 108 yet, of course, but a NHTSA ruling is as good as law.

Look, I respect the hustle of a Get Rich Quick scheme, but if this worship is earnest… it’s diagnosably weird and these folks should seek help.

For me, at least, the performance difference from CTR to Golf R is made up for by the reliability factor. Also, I think the interior on the Golf R looks really cheap- like the designers wanted a long curving three foot gauge cluster/infotainment screen and the engineers were like “fuck the designers, lets just build…

So, BMW is trying to edge in on the gap between Mercedes and Bently/RR?

Nah, they’re supposed to look like the old Type R, not like someone gave up half way through an origami swan.

The badge? Or the fact that it looks pre-crumpled?

As an automotive lighting engineer, I’m thrilled with Honda’s lighting design on this new generation. The forward lighting is exceptionally well integrated into the front styling, helped immensely by them dropping that damn hideous Chrome Overbite. The rear lighting looks stellar- way more life and personality than…

If he was serious about any level of widespread autonomy on our roads, he’d be talking about regulations, standards, and investments in V2V and V2I technology, which is the obvious final puzzle piece in closing the wide-open performance gap where computers and sensors will never match even the most distracted drivers-…

I, for one, welcome a fascism so incredibly childish as to openly broadcast their follower’s movements like this. It’ll make the guerrilla war significantly easier.

I’m going to start a line of screw-on replacement antennas in the shape of coffee mugs and solo cups, because thats HILARIOUS

Not me, but a friend of mine was struggling with too many things in his hands loading up his brand new 4runner for its first weekend outing. Tossed a day-pack on the roof and forgot about it.

Gotta double down on the i3 submission.

Okay okay, hold your fire and hear me out. The Rivian front lighting is… weird. I don’t know that I would call it beautiful or even particularly clever, BUT it is extremely special. Let me explain…

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