Because the inherent advantages of sedans aren’t that large. Their advantage are aero and lower weight.

The switch to cross over is rather convenient for the switch to EV’s.

If the vents are going to be fake, someone should put one on the roof, mclaren F1 style.

Does anyone know what caused the accident? Does anyone know what caused the vehicle to fail inspection?

According to quora it takes 10hp to run the ac on full on a hot and humid day.

Looking beautiful can sell cars, but it doesn’t encourage an upgrade. Like it or not, passenger vehicles are a status symbol. It’s a way of saying “I can afford this expensive looking thing”. We all know that cars depreciate quickly (in comparison to say, houses) so they are only really expensive when new. In order to…

It’s as tho there are two design languages going on. One is brand specific, making sure that all offering from a company look similar. The other is decade or 6 year specific, making sure that all vehicles from the same era look similar. So by seeing a vehicle one can instantly tell who made it and when.

Is the economy penalty of a crossover in comparison to a comparably sized sedan really that large?

“in the past 12 months, how many times have you considered setting your car on fire?” might have been a useful question.

It’s not about being able to vary it, its about being able to start the dumb hydraulics (where the exact force is unknown) at the exact point where the smarter electronics peter out.

I think you are severely overestimating the amount of heat that has to be dissipated. Remember, you only need to dissipate it until the battery discharged enough to accept the charge

Or if you are really interested in making the pads last the life of the car.

Why do you need to shed that heat in a hurry? A lot of heat will only build up during emergency braking (once in a blue moon event, so you can shed slowly). The only other time heat is going to build up during mild breaking (thus much less heat) and when you battery is full. That battery isn’t going to stay full (the…

Fair enough. Let’s say the brakes generate half a megawatt for the up to 10s duration of a panic stop. You don’t need a system that can shed that much heat continuously (that would be very hard), you just need a system that can store that heat and bleed it over the next hour, which becomes way easier.

But it’s not one controller, because the hydraulics are dumb. They aren’t under any real control. ABS doesn’t sense braking force and maximize available traction. It just starts pulsing the brakes (alternating locked up with free) as soon as it things the vehicle is sliding. Which is also why its really jerky.

I see two solution to this.

EV’s can engine brake. That is exactly what the regen system does.

1/6th, in the case of model S. So close to half an order of magnitude. 17% is still pretty significant.

The heat always goes back into the environment, usually cooled by passing air (although could theoretically use the vehicles cooling system, but that sounds really complicated). The rate at which it can go back into the environment can be a problem, but its relatively easy to manage if the application is very…