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      09-25-2023, 10:42 AM   #4203
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This is very interesting, Hydrogen powered V8 hot rod truck. Going to put this in the Cool pic thread as well. I could get into this.
Clickbait is clickbait. There are good resources on why hydrogen is so impractical for personal vehicle ICE, from materials, to distribution, to performance, to efficiency.
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Tesla hell keeps coming up, what if it caught fire.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/hertz-...out-of-charge/
This isn't a Tesla thing. A man and his dog died in a Corvette because he didn't know where the manual release was.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rvette-n373316
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Clickbait is clickbait. There are good resources on why hydrogen is so impractical for personal vehicle ICE, from materials, to distribution, to performance, to efficiency.
Did you watch the video? The engineer who built the truck talks about all of that and why it is viable. It seems that Amazon, Walmart and a number of other large companies use hydrogen to power their fork lifts, they produce their own hydrogen on site. Also LA transit uses it to power their buses.

I think rather than dismiss it we should at least consider it as an option when "zero emissions" is being thrust upon us. The fact it uses a modified ICE engine, doesn't have the environmental issues surrounding EV battery production it's worth looking at.
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This isn't a Tesla thing. A man and his dog died in a Corvette because he didn't know where the manual release was.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rvette-n373316
man that is sad af....

the manual release ones in my Tesla are impossible to miss, in fact I have to tell new passengers how to use the open door button isntead of the manual release one that is more instinctive
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      09-25-2023, 03:36 PM   #4207
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man that is sad af....

the manual release ones in my Tesla are impossible to miss, in fact I have to tell new passengers how to use the open door button isntead of the manual release one that is more instinctive
Why the hell the redundancy then? Mechanical levers are used to open doors. Why do we need electronic buttons to do this? It's so stupid. Never once have I thought that grabbing a door lever and using it as the handle to push the car door open was a problem.
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Why the hell the redundancy then? Mechanical levers are used to open doors. Why do we need electronic buttons to do this? It's so stupid. Never once have I thought that grabbing a door lever and using it as the handle to push the car door open was a problem.
from what I understand is that the door windows are frameless, so the electric door release button allows the window to drop a bit to eliviate the chance of damaging the window when opening and closing the door...the mechanical handle won't lower the window and could cause damage. That is why I try to remember to tell new passengers how to open the door properly...most of the time they just pull the lever as it is more instinctual than pressing a button
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from what I understand is that the door windows are frameless, so the electric door release button allows the window to drop a bit to eliviate the chance of damaging the window when opening and closing the door...the mechanical handle won't lower the window and could cause damage. That is why I try to remember to tell new passengers how to open the door properly...most of the time they just pull the lever as it is more instinctual than pressing a button
Not really, my former E85 has frameless windows, and automatically drops down as well when opening the door regardless if the top is down or up, and fairly certain it is a cable
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This isn't a Tesla thing. A man and his dog died in a Corvette because he didn't know where the manual release was.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rvette-n373316
A terrible situation and the 72 YO must have become incapacitated quickly from the heat to kick out a side window.
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Not really, my former E85 has frameless windows, and automatically drops down as well when opening the door regardless if the top is down or up, and fairly certain it is a cable
It's the same in our CLK cab, pull the internal door release handle and the window drops a bit to clear the door seal and the rear window goes backwards half an inch.
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Clickbait is clickbait. There are good resources on why hydrogen is so impractical for personal vehicle ICE, from materials, to distribution, to performance, to efficiency.
And using hydrogen fuel in a conventional internal combustion still does not get around the main issue with ICE which is combustion efficiency (i.e. waste heat) between 40% - 60%.
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      09-27-2023, 10:36 AM   #4214
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A terrible situation and the 72 YO must have become incapacitated quickly from the heat to kick out a side window.
There would be no need, there's a lever on the floor to open the door.
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There would be no need, there's a lever on the floor to open the door.
You're absolutely right, a lever on the passenger side floor to open door in case of electrical failure and it's imperative to read all the safety info in the handbook.
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More climate change lies exposed.
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I've heard of 'passing it down the line' but this is like if I catch fire so will you, then you etc
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China ..

Some say that fire has been burning since June 4, 2021 and that it will never go out.
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I thought this would be images and videos of DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS causing fires (Maui) and earthquakes, and the videos and images of the government using planes to aerosols the air to manipulate weather.
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I thought this would be images and videos of DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS causing fires (Maui) and earthquakes, and the videos and images of the government using planes to aerosols the air to manipulate weather.
I don't think that HAARP can manipulate the weather.
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I don't think that HAARP can manipulate the weather.
It absolutely can. They had manipulated the weather in Vietnam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye
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It absolutely can. They had manipulated the weather in Vietnam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye
I can't comment on something that was reported to have happened five decades ago, even thinking about this does peoples' brain in.
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