I suspect they are going with the low charge rate to lower install costs. You *might* be able to install 4 50kw posts on the existing service. It’s very unlikely that a gas station has 4x150kW = 600kw/750KvA sitting idle, as that is more than a whole station would use. The additional cost and hassle of bringing in new…

I wouldn’t count on being able to build on the existing power. Unless it’s a very small stall count(like 1-2 posts) a gas station/C-store is unlikely to have the spare capacity for a significant DC fast charger install unless it was designed with that in mind. Most installs require a new service to be brought in by…

I used to commute between the UWS and Brooklyn by car, and in the East 60s-70s there was an Aston Vantage and a Ferrari FF that were always street parked. Pretty awesome actually

Eh, I duno, with as much steam as that thing was making, I wouldn’t be surprised if a locked roller would send it flying off the dyno.

A few things here. First, that is almost certainly a Model S motor. It may have come from EV-west, but that’s a Tesla part. On heat, the batteries generate the same amount of heat regardless of pack size, they just have a larger thermal mass to sink it into rather than rely on heat exchangers. The discussion on regen…

Small world, I too am in the middle of a years long VQ swap in my 240z.

Yeah, I posted a second on track video as well, car is awesome.

Tuned long tubes go a long way.

From a styling standpoint, the Model S has admittedly changed very little since its introduction. Under the skin, however, there have been some pretty significant changes. Acknowledging that even current Tesla interiors are a far cry from the German competitors, the difference between a current and 2013 Model S…

I’m not quite building a full overland rig, but I convinced my fiancee that instead of flying somewhere for our honeymoon, I should pick up an ‘04Lx470 and build it up for a cross country road trip hitting alot of the national parks. 

Just traded an unreliable 130k mile ‘07 GTI for a bulletproof 180k ‘04 LX470(landcruiser). It’s amazing how much tighter the LX feels, and how much better all of the interior components have held up. I always thought the GTI felt solidly built(even if it consumed coils and oil at an alarming rate) but the LX truly…

Mechanical and aerospace engineer here. Of course actually testing the drag will be more effective than just guessing, but there is quite a bit of evidence that for roughly airfoil shaped, Kamm tailed vehicles (that were designed with low drag in mind in the first place) extending the airfoil shape generally reduces…

Eh, difference in power here is pretty significant even on a per liter basis. The fact remains that to get over 800 or so hp/l without revving over 11k rpm, you need boost in the 100psi range. It’s awfully hard to compress air to 100psi with a single compressor, which is why whether it’s a drag engine, a diesel truck,…

Unless they have created an unprecedented chemistry for the cells themselves the charge rate is not linear. There are essentially two bottlenecks for charge rate: Infrastructure capacity(the kW rating of the chargers) and the kW that the batteries can actually take in.

There are four superchargers in Manhattan.

Yeah, I always thought that mode was so that you could rotate the car at low speeds by locking the rears while turning/braking, but it sounds like this is a low enough traction situation that it behaves similarly to snow.

I don’t disagree at all that threshold braking is best, I’m more concerned with locked vs abs on normal surfaces.

Ha, no that is a pretty specific set of circumstances that I have not experienced. Most of my cars have not had ABS, and I haven’t spent much time on wet grass with either category.

On most surfaces, it does. Snow/ice is a bit of an outlier, likely because of the low difference between static and kinetic friction on these surfaces.  https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/braketst.pdf