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CR & JDPower will always be criticized because of their methods. I've never met a CR subscriber. Have you? But I've also never met a Nielsen family. I watch whatever TV shows that I want, including ones that get cancelled after 1 Season :) And if you ever watch Family Feud, you'll know that...

The June order folks aren't gonna be happy. "Where's my build schedule?!" "Looks like it went to dealer stock"

I'm just a layperson who, like @Probity , may have been able to work some of these equations 20+ years ago in college. Nowadays it's just spitballing. Sure, there is tweaking of aero. My guess would be the same as yours: car bodies that deflect better at 75mph than 65mph, and modern 8/9 speed...

There's the power equation without force F -- so just its proportionality equation. Guilty. Overheard in hallway: "I can drive faster AND save on gas!" Me: "Whatever makes you sleep better, bless your heart"

You (and I) already said that a Watt is a unit of power. And a Joule is a unit of energy. We agree again. You are now using another equation, which does NOT say Watt is energy; it says Watt is a rate unit of energy. I already said it could be a rate of transfer. And I already said we...

I know that already. I'm giving an extreme example. The example could also be flipped to a 2000# trailer with just the driver + gas and nothing else. What is your point? Because my point was to give an example of how the GCWR doesn't mean max tow + max payload, which is what we're here...

Nobody else mentioned that tach. If it's even a "tach". It's really an analog power meter. You have a point, but ... ... maybe a kw meter in dash is the future. Even if all-EV doesn't happen by 2030, a kw meter means every car driver will know power at that time. I think it's useful. In...

“This really has exceeded our expectations,” Todd Eckert, Ford’s truck marketing manager ... (italics mine) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-23/ford-s-tiny-maverick-truck-has-attracted-100-000-reservations?sref=P6Q0mxvj

Oh boy, the great MPG debate. I'm drooling from all the misinformation! :) "New cars are so aero tuned that I can get higher MPG @ higher speed", etc. Hogwash! Drag coefficient, Reynold's #s, 8+ gears, GDI fuel injection, blah blah blah. Let's do the Time Warp again! A car (of mass)...

150# Americans? Only manufacturers (and the SAE) think that. More like 250#. 1 ton American family of 4. I don't need to pass these F150s. Usually they pass ME because they're also going well above the speed limit. Overweight & speeding :eek: Yesterday, I parked next to one of these (not...

Hah, yea when I saw that marketing pic by Ford I kinda chuckled. The Lances aren't known for being light but great 4 season campers. They also have large capacities (holding tanks, generators, etc.) Which model are you thinking? My friend tows a Lance with his Z71. I think they have a 1900...

Sure, if someone puts 1516# on the truck. Will you be packing that much? I'm not close to packing that much. 2 European sized people (aka. 150#/person), 2 pups (150#), 2 bikes (50#), beer cooler (50#), 2 backpacks (100#) + trailer tongue (200#) = 850# payload That leaves 1486# for trailer.

Excellent news!

Yup. I saw this same setup awhile ago from another Youtube video with a driver who put the Escape Hybrid into Sport, Eco, & Normal Drive modes. Same outcome: tach shows eMotor Kw output briefly spike at 1st, ICE quickly takes over as bulk power output, then eMotor comes back with a few kW...

Touche. I totally agree it's nit picky, and that's precisely why I mentioned it to you. Why even post a reply attempting to correct @WesM without showing the equations & their definitions? It didn't matter. So your nit picking his attempt to figure this out is why I nit picked on your reply...

Air compressor gun. :)

Excellent! Our ski friends will appreciate warm feet while riding to the slopes in winter.

I donated all my physics book but I never liked this oversimplification of Watts as energy over time. Watt is a unit of power. Watt-hour is rate of power. Power is work over time. Power is not energy over time. The equation I had for exams was very simply: dP=dW/dt, as a derivative. The...

Of course it will be. I've been just as curious about the actual torque # but calculating anything looked like speculation. Where is the # coming from? fbov or someone linked an article awhile back that quote Ford engineers saying the new HF45+ emotor generates 2,300Nm torque / 98 kW power...

Hey, that guy looks familiar! :D That Alto Blue looks dark when inside. Makes me 2nd guess my color. But outside or when sunlight hits it does look brighter.