Poo pooing on F1 cars early in this article is very weird, as the current ground effect cars this season are approaching 5x their weight in downforce at pace, Sky was just talking about it in Q1 earlier today.
Seems like a pretty uneducated take on the topic.
waste batteries on hybrids
You do realize that mathematically, using a finite amount of battery resource on hybrids over BEVs generates a much larger GHG reduction at scale, and results in a higher volume of cars that many more people can actually afford right? Turns out partially addressing the problem for a large chunk of the market has a larger raw GHG impact than a more aggressive fix for a fraction of that number of vehicles, as BEVs need at least 5x the amount of battery capacity each on average but don’t produce that scale of additional environmental benefit of even a basic hybrid for the vast majority of drivers.
The big BEV push over PHEV and even traditional hybrids, in the US at least, is largely political and not science based, even in the stupid agency I work for.
Source: I help manage energy and carbon mitigation programs for the US EPA, including those touching EVs and EV charging.
The latest DSG is the Golf R technically shifts a little faster than the PDK but from having owned an MK7.5, it’s extremely moronic out of the box and it’s improved drastically with a decent aftermarket TCU tune both for daily driving and pushing the car. I don’t know why the factory calibration is so incredibly shit, it’s purely a software issue. Probably to save a couple mpgs or some stupid shit like that.
Not always. I mean BMW didn’t design their DCT, (Getrag designed and made it) whereas while Porsche’s PDK came out a year later but they co-designed it with ZF and it was far better than BMW’s DCT at the time.
E46 M3 is the best looking car BMW ever made imo.
Newish RS4 Avant with a tune. I’d sell my S5 Sportback tomorrow and buy it if it was available.
I used to feel the same about RS3 Sportback, but I need a bit more room in back seats for kiddos these days.
I thought the Mustang Mach E did pretty well sales wise?