I Bought a Wrecked Peterbilt 379 Semi Truck
This was the Youtube video I was watching earlier on the exercise bike. His rebuilds on his channel are always entertaining to watch.
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This was the Youtube video I was watching earlier on the exercise bike. His rebuilds on his channel are always entertaining to watch.
The CitiCar was the most produced electric car in America after World War II until the Telsa Model S. The car, with a top speed of 38 MPH with entirely electro-mechanical, and lacked any control electronics.Complete with a brushed DC motor and three-speed contactor control system that made a large clunk between "gears", that worked by using a resistor and two batteries for low speed, two batteries and no resistor for mid-speed and all six for high-speed.
I don't own a television but I imagine this is what approximately the 20-minutes of every hour of TV watching is like. Her is the backstory of this video, as created by 1980s Mad Men: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/big-bill-hells
NOTE: This video contains most of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words, but it's hilarious.
The booming global tire market is worth billions - but this comes at a high price, both to humans and the environment. Over 50 million car tires are sold each year in Germany alone. But where does the natural rubber for them come from?
Stupid automotive question: Why does the Chevy Bolt have a physical shift linkage for PRNDL, that controlled by an actuator, when all that's inside the "transmission" is a parking pawl and a sensor that indicates the position the transmission is located in to tell the computer which way to control the motor? It's not like the physical shift linkage moves any gears. Electric motors don't have gears, they have 100% torque at 1 MPH and reverse by reversing the direction of the electricity.
Government regulation? What GM had in the parts bucket? Unneeded complexity? Doesn't make much sense to me.