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Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

I'm honestly quite excited about battery tech. There are constantly progress being made and I don't think you should discount that just because we don't have it *now*.

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Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

Ola posted:

A hydrogen commut-o-matic, I really like this. Interesting business model as well. (particularly his point from 11:50, which is so difficult for robber barons to understand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmkddBFUg0

So British engineering. Oddball layout, slight eccentric, aristocratic air over the boss and the steering wheel out of alignment.

It's from a few pages back but I wonder what the NCAP rating on this would be.. Death trap / 5? I wonder how the mileage would be after getting it up to modern standards.

Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

Your car has a nicer view than I do.

Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

Unless you are 600 lbs and try to jump it that will probably hold up just fine..

Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

Ola posted:

Battery degradation test after 150k km/94k mi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afxacp5wIZo

tl;dw ~4%

That sounds pretty damned reasonable. I wonder though if the degradation linear?

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Pretty Cool Name
Jan 8, 2010

wat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3gJ95f-8es

I think this is the video of the fastest EV run this year.

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