Obviously they couldn’t use that while on the move (then you’d be talking about a car powered by its own motion, aka a perpetual motion device) but that’s not a bad idea to plonk down overnight whenever they’re stopped. I bet you could get a couple-kW unit that would still fit in the car, and surely some places…

Solar power isn’t dense enough when you’re talking about car-sized solar panels.

If you’ve built billions of dollars of long-lived housing, infrastructure, plumbing, electrical distribution, and other major installations in a place that will be underwater (or flooded much more frequently within a decade or two), do you consider that a problem?

Keep in mind that just because a boat can travel from China to Europe X days faster doesn’t mean they just turn it off for 5 days, saving the pollution. They’ll just turn it around and go back to China, burning bunker oil the whole way. A container ship that is sitting still is a container ship that isn’t making…

The oceans becoming acidified and killing many coral and fish species is still a problem.

I wonder what the comment on their customer file is.

300x300 miles, which a ship can cover in less than a day.

Completely agreed.

One child policy is being rescinded.

This is the broken-window fallacy though: Even though the people processing the deliberately-destroyed cars (and the people selling their replacements) were better off, society as a whole would have been better off with the cars still functioning. The scrappers would have gotten to every single car eventually anyway.

They wouldn’t want to encourage people to keep and reuse still-working cars. Why not buy her a brand new civic!

I saw the Buemi one on Facebook earlier today (shared by a friend that had shared it from the official F1 page), and I thought:
1) Oh man, I REMEMBER THAT!
2) F1 video snippets posted BY F1? Whaaaaaaat?
3) F1 probably got a lot more coverage because of how many likes the video ended up with*

As a lefty, I like to think that the crap we’re finding wrong with Trump is worse than what the tea-partiers found wrong with Obama, and it almost certainly is.

Sure, but it’d be pretty easy to make a “California” catalytic converter and a “rest of USA’ catalytic converter that simply has less platinum and other expensive goodies in it. Run the line with the good cats for 1 week to make California cars, and for 3 weeks to make Trumpcars. I’m sure there are other examples…

You’ve basically described the LMP1 engine rules at WEC.

Put another way:

So the stakeholders have agreed they want engines that are:
1) Cheaper
2) Louder
3) More powerful
4) Relevant to road cars

Notably, Alsup was also the judge presiding over Oracle v. Google when Oracle was trying to say that Google producing a Java-compatible-but-not-Java compiler was copyright infringement. This is not his first high-profile tech-lawsuit rodeo.

From another site, apparently it is the launch abort motor. It hauls you away from the exploding rocket if the rocket is, indeed, exploding.

Apparently they’re (currently) averaging about 1 mile per driver intervention*, so the driver probably doesn’t get much time to take his hands off the wheel.