Free-piston engine: GM ran one on whale oil in 1956, and Toyota wants it back
Free-piston engine: Pescara patented it, GM ran the 1956 XP-500 on it, even on whale oil, and Toyota built a 42% efficient one for EVs.
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MERCEDES VISION EQXX
Vision EQXX: Everyone bragged about horsepower. Mercedes drove 750 miles on 201 and won There are two ways to impress someone with a car. The easy way and the hard way. The easy way is big numbers. A thousand horsepower, two thousand, nought to sixty in under two seconds — figures that fit in a … Read more
JAGUAR EV BET
Jaguar Burned the Ships Before Learning to Swim: An EV Bet at the Worst Possible Moment Clarkson once said, with that lazy contempt only he could pull off, that Jaguar had spent decades being the brand that posh men bought because they couldn’t quite stretch to a Rolls. Cruel, accurate, and missing the point. Jaguar … Read more