If this is in fact what +Tesla Motors is planning to announce next week as the D, I'm guessing that it's the long speculated all-wheel-drive version of the Model S
Basically it would be a model S with an extra motor added to the front axle just like the upcoming Model X crossover.?
It's a two headed chicken ?
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first commercial trips by the Shinkansen in Japan
High-speed trains like the Shinkansen, TGV and others are an amazing way to travel and in many cases far superior to flying. Last time I was in Japan in 2010, I took numerous bullet train trips and it was so much more comfortable and convenient than schlepping to an airport, dealing with security and all the other hassles of modern travel.?
The bullet train is a Japanese trademark. It is, in other words, a landmark in motion. Today, 50 years to the time it made a trip for the first time,
Fresh-picked paw-paws?
I'm not a football fan and don't really care if University of Michigan wins or loses, but for the sake of the athletes, students and school, the Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke both need to go?
A member of the popular Michigan fan blog mgoblog.com called for the rally early Tuesday morning, about an hour after Brandon released a statement apologizing for the way the department handled treatment of Morris’ concussion and high ankle sprain.
Antibiotics were one of the greatest medical developments of the 20th century, but we're now nearing but where they will no longer be effective
We need to ban the prophylactic use of antibiotics in agriculture. Unfortunately the political power of huge agribusinesses will probably end up screwing us all. ?
Hint: it doesn’t do much to limit antibiotics on 80 percent of users — farm animals.
The really impressive thing is that they managed to do this without completely destroying the display?
PeripateticPandas is back with a fix! Making bendable design more robust… with a drill press. For
The new 3.0-liter diesel V6 is a hit in the +Chrysler Group LLC Ram 1500. Chrysler has just announced they are boosting output to 20% of their full-size trucks to meet demand
http://media.chrysler.com/newsrelease.do?&id=16087&mid=1
It's going to be very interesting to watch this segment over the next year as Ford launches the new 2.7-liter EcoBoost powered F-150. The Ford may well match the 28 mpg highway rating of the Ram diesel, but the Ram will probably have more towing capability and may well get superior real world fuel economy.?
I've long wondered about the durability impact of automatic start-stop systems
When I wrote the press release for Ford about the 2013 Fusion with auto-start-stop, we estimated the $295 option cost would typically be recovered in about 18 months through fuel savings. However if you have to replace a battery that can cost up to $200 in less than two years it eats up most of the potential savings.
While automakers have adopted more robust batteries and beefed up the starters on cars with auto start-stop, it looks like the batteries are not enjoying the increased cycling caused by all those additional engine starts. This only applies to non-hybrid vehicles like the Ford Fusion, the 2015 +Ford Motor Company F-150 and the Ram 1500.
Hybrids generally use the high-voltage battery and the electric drive motor to restart the engine. Non-hybrids with start-stop use advanced-glass-matt batteries. But it looks like manufacturers are looking to ultra-capacitors to solve the durability issues. ?
Inefficiencies and durability questions cropping up with now-proliferating stop/start systems could be opening the door for long-promising, but little applied ultracapacitor technology in the light-vehicle market. Ultracaps, long considered too costly for widespread employment in light vehicles, …
