This could too.

I'm tempted to dictate a reply

Combined heat will still be approximately the same. Most of it will likely be generated by the first gear clutch pair since those will do the most slipping.

In a few years will see the mechanism powered by several motors and activated by a button or voice commands.

While they could achieve rear weight bias in an all electric, and program the motor controllers to provide power delivery identical to the 911 (you can always artificially restrict low end torque, and electric motors are much easier to control), and they could even pipe fake engine noise into the cabin, no fan will…

Im sure the reliability is at least acceptable, but the maintenance costs have to be stratospheric. But this is not a mass market car, so whatever.

Huh? Musk seem to be on a one man mission to ensure long term survival of mankind primarily by alleviating the effects of climate change. However ineptly and narcissisticly he goes about it, virtually everything his companies do is in service of those goals.

They make a point of re thinking existing concepts. In so doing, they typically favor performance advantages, but at the expense of cost and cost of maintenance.

Im going to give explaining this a try. There are two, separate ideas here. First is all the clutches.

Torque is always transfered thru clutches in any transmission. Even automatics have clutch packs.

What would be the benefit? How would the additional battery be charged?

This is an amazing, well thought out build. But I feel that in the quest for (relative) simplicity, it skipped over regenerative braking, which greatly reduces it’s usefulness.

I wonder why they chose the narrow rear track. An attempt at better aero, or was there some other reason?

“I don’t care if all functions for HVAC, entertainment, etc, are voice activated, thought activated, butt-twitch activated, etc.”

I thought there were steering wheel controls, do those not do volume?

I hear models I, E, and R are in the pipe.

This. Also there is this silly rule that while Kelvin are degrees they aren't called that. 15 degree Centigrade, but 15 Kelvin.

“torque is a better representation of available power than”

550lbs is about 1/6th of the cars weight or less, and that’s at 180mph. At a more sane speed of 90mph, that would be 138lbs. I picked 90 because it makes the math easy, but it’s a far more likely corner speed at a track.

At least with gasoline motorcycle, it costs a lot more to make a motorcycle than it does to make it faster. A bump in power is a cheap way to make one more desirable.