Tesla is promising some awfully silly numbers from the new roadster. This is a Tesla promise, so it will likely be late, and we can probably knock 25% of the promised numbers. Still, it’s a 200k car from a company that represents EV’s in the minds of consumers.

Are those wood screws holding the center console bezels in place?

Quick, lets pile rocks under that bridge

If the tip jets are the problem, why not drive the main prop via a shaft from the main engines? Have a clutch so that you could still disconnect the power for gyro mode.

But brake pads don't contain plastics. They can't, due to the temperatures involved.

Since neither breakpads nor rotors contain plastics, rubber, or other polymers, how would they create microplastics?

Why would regenerative braking reduce tire wear?

0h c'mon now, laziness is the reason we use cars. How many people drive a walking distance?

Phalanx would also be acceptable.

The Nissan Armada, along with the Buick Enclave are the best names for a gigantic suv meant to make its owner feel very safe and powerful. I’m surprised no one made the Colossus yet.

It’s not about cooling the cylinder thru just adding fuel, its that you are boiling this fuel using the vacuum of the intake stroke. This latent heat of vaporization far exceeds the heat required to simply raise the temperature of the fuel, the same way it takes far more energy to boil water than it does to heat it up…

When I rode, my zx10 would only manage 160 miles on a tank. The 600's typically needed to stop after 100.

I would call mine tonguetongue, and feed it cheese

“security forces would have taken too long to get to the scene in an emergency.”

EV’s have some packages advantages (because motors are small, and batteries can be made in a variety of shapes) that you have to throw out of the window if you make a single model both as ICE and electric. I agree that EV’s need to be like mainstream vehicles in order to be mainstream vehicles, but they can be…

It’s a cool idea, but the problem is perception and liability.

Acceptable reasons for banning things

With less rules, you’ll see more innovation in cars, but you are unlikely to see much in a way of variety, as engineering problems tend to have one best solution.

They would create a bunch of vertices that would spread back on to the highway.

You would be reducing the efficiency of the vehicles traveling down the highway. might still be worth it from the efficiency standpoint, likely not to be worth it from an economic standpoint.