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According to the Mayan Calendar, the world as we know it will end on Dec. 21, 2012.
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...funding for the Mayan Ultimate Calendar simply ran out, or the poor tired soothsayer just got tired of counting? Maybe he just predicted the world would end on the winter solstice Thus-And-Such Year and who's going to give him shit about it? He's been dead for a mighty long time.
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I thought that was Telsa Motors.
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Elon Musk is the new John Delorean is the new Preston Tucker.
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58hp may not sound like much beans to you, and it isn't, but 90% of the time you don't need much gumption. Cruising at 60, I don't think I need more than 20hp in my non-aero-enhanced truck. Stash a little back for passing and hillclimbing and 58hp is plenty.
Why not do that? They've hd 10 years to work on it.
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I cruise at 60. We're getting speed cameras around here now, so one of my freedoms, the one that lets me roll dice with speed-enhanced Death, is being taken away.
Besides, 60 gets me fabulous fuel mileage and I still get to work on time.
06/01/09
Volvo is working on a plug in hybrid electric vehicle that will run on biofuels.
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/sTUPID aRBITRARY cAPITALIZATION
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05/26/09
"Aye."
05/26/09
Even if you only thought about it for a minute, this sort of change in attitude is good though. If you consider efficiency, using a metric of peak performance (HP) is not that useful, even to hoons. We have historically used it, to give us some idea of peak performance of vehicles. And this was OK when the energy cost of the ICE was negligible (gas was pennies). What we need now, is some measure of work per unit time, per kilowatt equivalent of power input, since that could be used to compare electric or chemically fueled machines.
What I want, is a vehicle that can release stored energy rapidly, from whatever storage medium is used, in a lightweight engine design, and in a lightweight chassis. That would give resultant acceleration numbers which would keep me interested, and still be socially responsible. If it could be designed to also have large range, that also would be good, and might be a useful component of the metric.
So we need a new number.
Power = (Force * Distance) / Time
Choose your units.
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There isn't even a case being made here. You just listed some facts and figures under a headline that implies the reader will be offered something more than a example of what companies are doing now..I thought we might get some real insight into the limitations of the ol' fossil fueled combustion engine. Instead? Nothing; just pictures of popular cars and the assumption that they simply can't do any better.
It's ridiculous to say that something can't be done, because it's simply not being done. Which is really the only "case" that was attempted to be made.
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"How much tail can I get with the car?"
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