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What Drives Us Podcast - #362 You Bought It But It’s Not Really Yours.mp4

On this week’s the panel discuss, electric RVs, what does it mean when you own something but the company that made the product controls it, Ford PHEV truck rumors and more.

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Danny Apr 18, 2020 Read More Replies: 0

In COVID-19 crisis, electric auto startups race to stay on track

COVID-19 has hit the U.S. auto industry hard, but the most precarious companies might be the handful of electric auto startups on the cusp of key vehicle launches.

Rivian, Lordstown Motors, Lucid, Bollinger Motors, Faraday Future, and Fisker are leading a historic wave of startups that, inspired by the success of Silicon Valley’s Tesla, see a new future of battery-powered sedans and trucks. But with their first products in the pipeline, the coronavirus threatens the capital flows and customer base they need to survive.

Henry Payne » In COVID-19 crisis, electric auto startups race to stay on track

SFO Apr 16, 2020 Read More Replies: 3

Mileage calculator chart

I found an interesting mileage calculator the other day on the Ecomodder.com website.
Aerodynamic & rolling resistance, power & MPG calculator - EcoModder.com

You enter a number of parameters that apply to your car and it calculates a table of mileages and other parameters based on different vehicle speeds.

I have obtained the parameters for my Prius V and they are:
Total Weight 3340 for the car + me 205 = 3545
Cd = .29
Rolling resistance = (this varies with tires and driveline losses from .008 to .15) I used .011
Engine efficiency = 41%
Temperature = 68 deg
Frontal area = 23 ft cu

I calculated from the frontal area from sketchandcalc.com website app.
You take a picture of your vehicle and use a pen to draw the outline to form a closed irregular shape. I included in the picture a pizza box that was 10.5" square which was also in the frame with the car to calibrate the scaling factor for area.

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Ronald Doles Apr 12, 2020 Read More Replies: 11