Recent content by heady

Any talk of the grid load is just a red herring, there is no way to have such a large adoption rate of EVs that would surpass any grid infrastructure build out. We are at 8-9% of new car sales in electrics, with the segment passing 50% of new car sales at the mid 2030's at the earliest. Then...

Yeah we bought Q2 for the pre-tariff pricing w/ the employee pricing and I expect that really boosted the quarterly numbers, we'll have to see if that was enough to keep the annual sales on par with 2024 after the back half crunch hits. For me the Maverick didn't make it onto the shopping list...

True, the reverse field right side directive is given in AR 670-1 and are included in most Flag etiquette guides like those from the American Legion. The relevant parts of US Flag Code that might apply to hoods would be Title 4 Chapter 1 § 7 (b) flag should not be draped over the hood, top...

What you're looking for is the rate of occurrence of vehicle fires, which eliminates the total number of vehicles as a consideration and just gives you the chances of a fire occurring for a specific vehicle type. Internal combustion vehicles have a rate of catching fire that is ~60 times times...

You could always claim it's not the US flag for US flag code abuse since it doesn't have the right number of stripes or stars on it and doesn't follow the US flag star pattern alignment; maybe it was made with AI! That said, displaying mutilated, defaced, or defiled flags are your legal right...

Looks like used hoods at salvage yards are running as low as $335 salvage on car-part.com all the way up to just under $900 for a new unpainted one from a place like carid.com.

Yeah mine has been that way since I got it, somewhat annoying but not really terrible as the next/previous track buttons on the dash still let you step through the stations, but I'd rather they mapped those steering wheel buttons to changing the channel instead of changing the audio source, too...

Currently the Chinese are the leaders in this space with a production gasoline engine from Geely sitting above 44% brake thermal efficiency on their 1.5L turbo miller cycle TGDI engine. https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2024-01-5107/ Breaking through 50% BTE is...

Absolutely, you can achieve the exact same margin of safety that a WDH provides by slowing down an additional 20% to account for the decreased front end traction, more than one solution, and driving slower also improves other safety margins not explicitly related to that traction difference, too!

They are equally as useful and it has precisely nothing to do with an arbitrary "low" tongue weight, but how much weight is removed from the front axle, which is a function of weight and the length of the lever arm. If our trucks had shorter wheelbase, it would have an even larger impact. Ford...

Luxury dog elevator, could make one that attaches to the door and folds down :) http://www.jax-design.net/2017/06/dog-elevator.html

Static loss of front wheel traction on the Maverick using the standard numbers on a 2.0 AWD from the '25 BBLB, a 400lb tongue, and a 7.5" ball mount center distance in the receiver is right around ~8%; dynamic losses are easily peaking at double this value as you are traveling down the road...

In this application, the problem would be solved by using a lithium chemistry instead of a lead chemistry battery, especially in the case of the hybrid where high starter current is never experienced. Lithium or even most other chemistries like nickel metal hydride are far better at sitting...

There's a giant chasm between what any one person considers a finished project/product - sometimes I step back and dust off my hands and say "that'll do" when some thing reaches a bare "minimum viable product" stage - cheap, quick, and easy, and other times I work longer harder and spend more...

You can equalize your AGM battery, as recommended by some AGM manufacturers, but the rate that current can be accepted into the battery at the absorption voltage of ~14.4V is really set by the condition of the battery, more so than the DC-DC converter. In order to push more current, it has to go...