Not a bad design? It’s a Ferrari Prius FFS.

I’m constantly surprised by how rubbish car companies are at software. It’s difficult to do good software, but even with multi-billion development budgets the major car companies struggle to make even average software.

In my time in R&D, I investigated a system much like Porsche’s (including building and testing one in-vehicle), and put together a fair amount of research.

This is what happens when you fail to pay your bribes on time.

You don’t need to be completely sealed, all you need is that there is no gap the size of a door being open and positive pressure. That is all. The positive pressure would prevent new air from entering the gaps as old air is pushed out as it tries to escape from the higher pressure. That is why the fans have to work so…

I don’t think the reason for the degradation in the Tesla’s numbers have to do with battery charge, I think they have to do with heat mitigation right? I don’t think the drop in performance would be as noticeable if they hadn’t done 15 consecutive pulls.

But you have a Tesla, so, you could go gather this data for us... …

This is cool, but seems kind of unnecessary and pointless.

The wrong glass for the windshield, that’s what makes this thing unsafe. I knew it was something but I couldn’t really pin it down

This is where you absolutely lose me. There’s nothing wrong with an airplane that is an inherently unstable platform using computers for stability. Fighter planes have been doing that since the 70s. What’s wrong is not wanting to invest money and time in proper pilot training (the airlines fault) and Boeing acting…

I just want to point out that although you were incorrect in your first post, it seems like you read through your replies & were a big enough person to admit to not knowing the whole story.

Here’s the thing: the average US household has 1.88 cars, so since roughly 10% of US households do not have a car, about 80% or so would have two or more.

If every household with 2 or more cars would replace one ICE vehicle with a BEV one, that’s a TON of ICE cars off the road.  And a rough back-of-the-envelope…

Mazda, we can’t afford a bigger battery so we blame the battery pack for being dirty and turn range anxiety into eco consciousness.

Honestly, I think they just keep doing what they’re doing. Audi, Porsche, GM, and Ford already are headed in a good direction.

Who would want this? Why would a factory want to introduce a fuckton of complexity into their production line? Why would a tesla owner want to spend a bunch of money to have a refreshed version of their old car? Why would a jalop want to constrain the supply of junkyard tesla parts?

Not entirely true. Electric motor torque drops off as rotational speed rises.

If you want to give yourself a real headache, ask yourself why the southern half of Japan has their electricity at 60Hz and the northern half at 50Hz, with expensive conversion stations across the middle of the country

Maybe we’re at work, and should be working, but want to read about weird cars instead. And because we forgot to mute our work computer we’re left stammering to explain what the noise was.

Please stop with the autoplay.

I would have clicked play anyway, Jason. After all, I did click the link. Please stop with the autoplay.