5/6th of lifetime emissions of cars are from manufacturing phase, and only 1/6th from actual fuel use.

Bear with me for a second here. This is frustrating to me, and I want to get it out in rant form.

And yes this doesn’t have the same range as other convetional EVs. So what. I need it to take me to work.

I will literally buy one

The bastards at Honda designed the perfect cinnamon roll of a car, and then went and murdered it with a last-gen underachieving drivetrain. I have never been so angry about a car.

90 kph is about 55 kph

Word. I messed around with cylindrical corona discharge ionizers a lot while I was working on ion engines, and they are finicky as hell. Highly dependent on temperature, humidity, etc. I can’t imagine the irritation of getting the plasma to discharge properly in a wide range of temperatures, pressures, and air quality,…

Okay, I was partially wrong. After reading some papers on transient plasma ignition, I have to admit that corona discharge actually is what ignites the fuel. It pretty much spreads out the concentrated plasma of the arc, attempting to ignite in multiple places at once.

“Small” government never meant “weak” government. Just consolidating the power into fewer hands, with fewer checks and balances.

From an overview of the available literature, (1) transient plasma ignition is not a new technology at all, and (2) nobody is quite sure why it works.

Thank you!

No, I saw it, it’s just obviously a mistake.

What everyone is missing on this is that the price tag is $160-170k.

On the plus side, it looks like you could use that panel as a sail to catch favorable winds!

Engineer here. Their claims are moose malarkey. 7.5 miles in an hour is technically possible if the stars align, but it’s extremely generous.

Man, why can’t modern efficient vehicles look like that?

Here are my calculations.

I am getting similar numbers.

Your surface area is off. 15 square feet is the footprint of a large armchair.

Maybe it’s a Ecoboost F150? Could E85 benefit engine timing?