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A Cummins ISX15 engine, available in Class 8 trucks (tractor-trailer tractors), has between 400 and 605 horsepower depending on application. Does a pickup truck really need that much to tow the puny-by-comparison trailers that a Class G license-holder is legally allowed to tow?a Back to EVs. I...

Maybe light(?)-duty trucks shouldn't have 15,000 pounds of towing capacity (that can't be used legally on a standard driving license if it were not for that stupid RV exception). Maybe trucks shouldn't have 700 horsepower. Radiator design needs a re-think. It wasn't all that long ago that...

The USA (and by extension, Canada) doesn't have pedestrian-impact collision standards. Europe does, and there has been recent talk of implementing those standards here (and for heavier vehicles than Europe requires them for). Whether that actually happens, is up in the air. I'm all for it. It...

Presumably you've read the sticky threads in this forum section ... they're old, but the information is still good. Start with a course. All of the ones you listed are good. Which one you should start with, depends on location, budget, scheduling, hire bike availability, etc., and for that...

For most of my years as an engineering consultant, I drove first a 1996 VW Passat TDI and then a 2006 VW Jetta TDI. I didn't want to show up in a high-end vehicle, because that sends the message "this guy is too expensive". I didn't want to show up in a beater, either, because that sends the...

Went for a little rip today, but by the look of the weather forecast, that'll be it for a while.

The BMW sat-nav on a hire bike in Spain refused to find the hire agency where the bike came from, then refused to recognise the street address when I looked it up with my phone, and only gave me directions when I fished latitude and longitude out of Google Maps and fed it that directly so that...

+1! Dave Grummett has been around this for decades.

Remember back when the prototype for this vehicle was first shown, that they said it could only be produced in a brake press (a fabrication-shop machine for putting straight bends into sheet metal)? Those fender and door inners sure look like conventional sheet-metal stampings.

It has long been like that when a construction/maintenance crew has a lane blocked. Even if they have a "yield to oncoming traffic" sign, it means nothing.

Yeah, one has to disregard some wrong explanations and just look at the way the vehicle is built (there are some details shown in this video that I hadn't seen in others - hence posting it). He has (IMO) undue concern about unplugging connectors on the 48V system. Arcing is only possible if the...

Interesting video on collision repair of a damaged cybertruck. Exterior stainless steel skin panel is glued to a stamped-mild-steel inner. (What's the point?)

More than zero damping in the rear shocks would maybe help...

Brampton already has a bunch of New Flyer electric buses running around.

Hah. In that picture from the forks, Marty's bike is the one with the metal top-box with The Yukon sticker. And that's me, in the Bridgestone/RIPP Racing T-shirt. This has to be from a few years ago.

That's Marty. He's been to Alaska and back a few times. He seems to know everything there is to know about the airheads and can fix anything.

No, CSBK switched to Bridgestone (and Ace for trackside support). Pro 6 is still a Dunlop race tire dealer.

I call that feature auto-mistake, because it's wrong far more than it's correct.

H2 doesn't have an intercooler, either, and the boost pressure (at higher revs) is up there. The advantage of driving it electrically is that the supercharger's boost pressure (and parasitic drag) aren't locked to engine revs. That electric motor would have to be pretty strong, though...

I don't think there's such a thing as a "Canadian" box or an "EU" box - I suspect the hardware is all the same, and any distinctions are made via your account settings and software (and GPS signal - it knows where it is). Part of the set-up and registration process for In&Motion, in my case...