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Given it's getting to be a bit elderly compared to the competition, it needs to be. Main point is that they're burning up their own margin in the process - bad place to be against Chinese competition.

So a price and margin drop incoming on the Model Y then...

According to GMP it was seized under S165 of the RTA: no insurance. Nothing to do with being UK legal. Getting insurance if it isn't UK legal is going to be tough - as I understand it they bought it overseas (Albania?) and imported it as if they were a tourist. Insurance presumably became invalid w...

I assume (dangerous I know, but I'm going to) that it's nigh on impossible to produce enough bio/synthetic fuel for the World's current ICE fleet. Plus, it won't help much with localised emissions from the tailpipe. The big issue isn't the world ICE fleet. It's that a whole bunch of industries are ...

Would you not be able to use Electroless nickel plating?

If they're only selling a few thousand cars, it'll be the overheads that are killing them not the cost of manufacturing the car. IF they can increase sales, their cash bleed will go way down.

but how is a battery going to provide redundancy? Given that conventional ships only have propellors anyway, I guess that a back-up generator for the electric drive would be better than that! https://www.wartsila.com/images/default-source/products/e-pms-landing-page/the-propulsion-battery-and-energ...

Presumably it would use only full power to accelerate and reduce the power by quite a percentage when up to cruising speed? Analogy : Dunno about all EVs, but mine can discharge at a bit over 3C on acceleration, but at 70mph and a range of, say 210 miles, it will be discharging at about 0.3C for mo...

They've got a design power of 36 MW on the waterjets and a 40 MWh battery, so it's a pretty short trip. I'm guessing that's for the Buenos Aires - Colonia del Sacramento route which is 26 Nm. Not many major routes that short internationally, but nice to see the length they can handle growing

Mart wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:01 pmWay too big for Europe, but every US ICE pickup displaced by a BEV is good news, especially given the poor efficiency / high fuel burn of full size PU's, in the 10-20mpg region.

Is it actually displacing pickups though, or is it people who would otherwise buy a Model S?