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To each their own I guess. I'm in my 50s but ever since I test-drove a Tesla, and the car pressed me back in my seat with just a quiet swoosh, all that noise has just seemed superfluous and old-fashioned.
Indeed. While I’ll never own one, there is still something about the sound of a Mustang V8 going past.
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It's clearly not a 911 Turbo or Turbo s. Probably a base 911. Also not discounting tesla shenanigans. Would be easy enough to run the 1/4 a few times and get the 911 nice heat soaked and way down on power.
It's going to be pretty hard to heat soak a 911 to get it down on power. They're proper sports cars designed to hit the track. The shenanigans was simply in choosing that car at all. A base 911 only claims a 0-60 of 4s and doesn't even break 400hp. It's never been a straight line car, that's not what it's trying to do or why enthusiasts love it.
Faster quarter mile drag speed than a Porsche 911 _while also towing a 911_ That's incredible marketing. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1730331223992472029
* A base model 911. The base 911 is not intended to be fast in a straight line. It's actually about as fast as a Model 3 Dual Motor Long range. Base 911 is about experience, feel, and handling. I say this because the mid-range 911 Turbo S would blow the doors off an unladen Cybertruck Tri-motor with it's 2.2s 0-60.
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AFAICT, Tesla was testing against a base model 911. The list would be pretty short comparing against a Turbo S.
I'm asking for a list of production vehicle that don't cost as much as a house that run a sub 11 quarter mile. You said "sports cars faster than a 911 are relatively common", so you should be able to pull together a big list easily.
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> ... but I suppose one major difference is that at 48V, transformer-based DC-DC conversion is usually a better choice for digital electronics compared with a simple buck, which historically seems to be a significant jump in cost and faff to design. There's no such thing as 'simple' transformer-based DC-DC conversion. If you want to use just a transformer, you're looking at AC. If you then want to convert it to DC af…
> There's no such thing as 'simple' transformer-based DC-DC conversion Pretty much all DC-DC converters nowadays are switching - and those chopping - and - rectifying steps you mention would be standard for any DC-DC converter whether or not it uses a transformer. In this particular case, a transformer is necessary in addition to those components, as opposed to a simple fixed inductor. > EPR is 48V Yes, I got confuse…
Interesting, why do you say that? Maybe I misunderstood. Do you have a link?
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Modern “truck things” are Costco runs and taking the kids to soccer practice. Maybe towing the ski boat to the lake twice a year. Real work gets done with utility vans or 15 year old trucks the size of a modern midsize suv.
I disagree. I have a Tacoma that definitely gets treated as a truck. The bed gets filled with stuff, I use the 4x4 every time I go through the Cascades, mountain passes, or washed out roads, and I've hauled closed to the limit with it several times. Would a van do some of those things? Maybe, but certainly not all, nor for the same price point.
The cheapest F150 Lightning (available today not in 2025) is $50k (vs $60k for Cybertruck), same 250 mile range but AWD standard , and is a regular pickup truck compatible with standard accessories and parts for doing actual pickup truck work. Of course, most of the buyers of either the Cybertruck or the F150 Lightning probably aren't getting much dirt under their fingernails. Everyone I know doing construction/trade…
The Rivian is probably their real competition based on price, specs, and trim.
“Prototypes are easy, production is hard.”
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Also a 911 looks like a cool sports car, while the cybertruck looks like it's being rendered by a Super Nintendo. A lot of the attraction of sports cars is the cool aesthetic, which your average family SUV or pickup truck really doesn't have, and the cybertruck has a negative amount of.
I don't think this comment will age well.
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Their whole problem was custom hardware. I don't know why people were so hot on them reinventing tested commodity electronics.
The complaint wasn't that they used an off-the-shelf controller, it's the fact that it was a no-name aliexpress special (and wireless to boot). They didn't even bother to use a well-respected brand like the wired xbox 360 controller, which has been used in all kinds of similar applications (they also didn't have a spare). It was obvious even to a relative layman that this was emblamatic of a cowboy attitude, compared…
Not according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion
> A modified Logitech F710 wireless game controller was used to steer
Even then, it wasn't responsible for the implosion, right?