It’s actually more to do with the required voltage. To get the 370V they need, they have to wire up 100 3.7V batteries in series. It would be super prone to failure if they just used 100 soda-can sized cells, though, so what they do instead is about 1200 AA-ish sized ones, with groups of 10 or 12 in parallel, and each…

“the only reason i can think of to do it their way is there must be a high initial quality control failure rate on the cells.”

As a driving enthusiast, I definitely don’t like having to interact with screens to operate a car

For those who ever wondered what a 20th level bard character might look like...

Somehow Deutsche Bank is involved. They are the short bus of Wall Street.

There are far too many good airports near LA to justify flying in to LAX.

I don’t know much about the Alfa Romeo Cuneo 33, but it certainly looks like a contender to win the Pinewood Derby this year.

Okay.. 

Feels like it should have been painted yellow and had a #9 stuck to the door.

You know those winglets at the end of airplane wings? It was a environmental remediation contractor that commercialized the technology...

Toni is the new writer here.

Twice as slow as being at the legal limit. I’m sure most people getting pulled over for DUI are way over that, with reflexes deteriorated accordingly.

I got tired of having to continually clean the pool, so I filled it with butterscotch colored acrylic.  Now I have a cool place to show my Opel.  The chicks get a little pissed when I invite them over for a pool party and it’s just me leaning against my car.

You had no idea that a mid-century modern chair was popular in the middle of the last century?

Lasers are instantaneously damaging to the retina (IE, you go blind so quickly you don’t even notice it before it’s already happened) at long range at the order of a few hundred milliwatts output power.

“No, the pilot did not get blinded. From the cockpit recording we were able to recover at the site, he could clearly see the ground coming towards him as the plane fell down, sliced in half.”

At 100-watts, it’s 200 times more powerful than the rating of an already dangerous Class-4 laser.

You are either ignorant, or a troll. If you’re the latter; go troll somewhere else. If you’re the former; educate yourself on what diesel owners have to do to actually create rolling coal, and while you’re at it, brush up on how “tuning” a gasoline internal combustion engine effects it’s emissions.

I have such conflicting feelings right now. On the one hand, I’m glad to hear some rolling coal assholes got what they deserved. [And NO V10omous, this is NOT the same as tuning your car in your garage for a little more whp.] But on the other hand, this saddens me to find out just how far Discovery Channel has fallen;…

If I had a judgment against me like that, I’d have a Powerstroke.