Recent content by bhtooefr

I think you could actually get quite a bit of improved aerodynamic efficiency by going narrower, although it's the main passenger cell's width that matters far more than the overall width. So a very very VERY rough estimate of frontal area is that it's ~58% of the width times height. (I'm...

The XL1 is also a four-wheeler and therefore can have a much narrower front track while still being stable. Aptera could've gone for inboard wheels and maybe could've faired things to keep the Cd down, but would've massively increased frontal area, and therefore increased drag. That said, it's...

Munro is also working with Aptera and Arcimoto, FWIW.

Essentially, it'll have 1.5x the drag in deep snow of a equal front/rear track 4-wheeler (with the additional caveat that there won't be a center track in the snow removed by other passing cars, so on untreated but heavily traveled roads, the drag will be higher than 1.5x). However, it has the...

Not sure if Tesla's plug is patented or not, but there's really two reasons to put one on your car in the US: Using Tesla destination charging (which nowadays requires Tesla approval except on older HPWCs that only speak J1772 protocol, or newer HPWCs that have had the protocol switch flipped...

A FYI: Tesla may soon be getting revenue for the Supercharger network from another automaker. Aptera's website shows a Tesla connector on their prototype: https://www.aptera.us/?pgid=k096lhqx-0e60da80-165d-4d29-bc08-eb703e54bf05 Thread for discussion of the Aptera relaunch over here: Aptera

Their official forums have a thread where mention that they can't talk about the port: https://www.aptera.us/forum/aptera-tech-questions/excellent-launch-video-but-is-that-a-tesla-receptacle-plug-on-an-aptera I can't think that that could possibly be a "mistake" - the Aptera website features...

...worth noting that that feature (using computer vision to predict suspension demands) is actually not new, Mercedes-Benz had it in 2013: However, I wouldn't be surprised if the FSD computer being used for active suspension control would be better optimized.

Also the Cybertruck - the million mile battery unladen might only be 333,000 miles towing, and that's a decent acceptable lifespan. For the situation of cold weather and being unable to plug in (and therefore unable to reasonably run battery heating constantly) - lead acid has historically...

That's... not as insurmountable as it seems. First, Teslas don't, to my knowledge, send any ID to the charger. They just have a flag telling the charger whether they're authorized to charge, and the car then communicates the billing info for that charge session back to the mothership. (This is...

When switching, you're selling to close that option position and buying to open a new option position, as far as I'm aware. Your broker letting you do it in one transaction is just making it so that you can do the trade as a discrete operation, rather than as two trades. (I am not a tax...

However, monopolists and near-monopolists tend to be treated much more strictly than small players as far as anticompetitive actions go, and a player staying visibly well away from the line sometimes is treated by governments much more kindly than one going right up to the line of what's legal...

Ignoring Chinese manufacturers (including Volvo/Polestar due to their Geely ownership), these two examples came to mind immediately: GM: New 2021 Envision Still Built In China Honda: Made-in-China car sells well in Canada, Honda says

Wrong thread for us being NKLAQ, people! (I'm not judging, just saying that this isn't the thread, there's a thread below this one for that.) And now for short interest. I see it was already posted, but for completeness: 54,890,314 shares shorted, a 10.84% drop (after adjusting for the...

You all, there's Nikola and Lucid threads, now. (The disagrees that I just doled out were not based on the content of the posts, but rather where they were posted.)