What about a sprinkler in the middle spraying fuel and equip the car with a giant catch funnel on the roof?

Are stealthy satellites a thing now? I wasn’t aware that was even possible.

Don’t underestimate nerds.

Its a bus sized object in orbit. Surely if it wasn’t lost, someone would be able to see it with a home telescope?

I’m not and aircraft designer, but I would try to use metal bellows to fix this problem.

engine accessories are vulnerable too. And the engine needs those to run.

I’m guessing 20 if you’re flooring it. But that’s true for most high performance vehicles gas or electric.

They have a few years before the roadster show up. It may be awesome, but its unlikely to be on time.

Or stack them on top of each other for MAXIMUM VISIBILITY!

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I’m guessing more than 100 but less than 1000 hours.

“He doesn’t understand why both autonomous and electric vehicle projects can’t be done in the US. “

Where most cars use the fuel pump the pressurize the fuel rail, mclaren went and pressurized the whole tank. so there are probably some fatigue problems that come with that.

I get around that problem by placing the zero on one of the holes instead of the edge.

Typically, badge engineering is done by another division of the same parent company. Is this the case here? Or is this really a ballsy independent third party selling nothing but badges?

Had a z and those issues!

Typically the sandwich is more like CF core with a thin steel skin on the outside. The skin provides scratch resistance, the core is a lighter means of achieving strength. The tradeoff is that the skin is heavy (even when thin) and it hides structural failure.

The issue isn’t rigidity, which CF has plenty off, the issue is hardness and lack of deformation. Hardness provides resistance to abrasion, and no plastic comes close to steel on that front (I doubt you could find any that match aluminum for that matter). The only plastics that do a good job of deforming without…

There is a difference between strength, used to describe tensile strength, and toughness usually used to describe hardness. Carbon fiber is strong. It will do great in resisting twisting and pulling loads on the bed (assuming the entire bed is cf). But it’s relatively soft and does not deform well. It does not handle…

Unfortunately, quiet a few luxury manufacturers seem to think that powered door handles are a great idea.