Recent content by jiho

Some years ago here in California there was an idea for a network of stations something like that, but for fuel cell vehicles, to swap in fresh hydrogen canisters. Those stations never got built, fuel cell never caught on.

Click on the 4th column (up/down arrows above "Total") twice, until only the down arrow is showing.

Has to do with what Maryland G-man said in post #93, the post you were replying to:

Confusingly, and as per usual, there are different standards for wire gauge. GM naturally used SAE, but what you find is AWG. The two sometimes equate, but at some gauge numbers AWG is considerably fatter. That's the copper. Then there's the insulation, where there aren't any real standards for...

I'm just not a social media type .... :ROFLMAO:

I couldn't help thinking. You can't possibly know that someone knows more than you do, unless and until you know as much as he does.

What's IG? Aside from my own IGnorance, that is ....

All this Hellcat talk reminds me, where is motorheadmike? He's been visiting the site regularly, but his last posts were August 25, 2022.

I forgot, apparently they actually do. :rofl:

People formed bonds with individual horses, as people did and still do with individual ICE vehicles. People form bonds with the EV concept, and with the Tesla brand, but not many form bonds with individual EVs. Many EV fans don't even own one, they lease. Even the most ardent EV fans consider...

How it was in the Horse and Buggy days, which weren't so bad in a lot of ways ....

Funny you mention Mouser. I found genuine Packard ring terminals at Mouser, the big 3/4" flat kind. They call the brand something else now. (Aptiv?) But same outfit, and I literally could not find them anywhere else. Mouser had them by the spool.

I started liking that with :ROFLMAO: . Then it occurred to me, you won't catch many people resurrecting a dead EV as any kind of classic. So in fact, it's true.

Are you comparing EVs to the Trabant? That's not very flattering.

Rolling in profits as far as the eye can see. As yet, no one has produced viable full-scale alternatives to fossil fuels.