
In other news, Coal Powered Cars.
![]() | Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years. Thanks, CNET Support |
he joked Tesla was going bankrupt for april fools day. People believed it and the stock took a dive. No doubt the SEC will take a jaundiced eye on his joke.
I haven't yet seen any #muskaprilfool, just the drop in price based on recent non-fake bad news.
Coal is OK, I guess, but I always preferred kerosene [kerosine; paraffin for Dafydd]. The problem was the slow starting of the Whites et al.
And, this is not a personal problem, but April Fools is verboten for us Bible thumpers, so that would have been my last thought, if at all. Pro 26:18,19.
Scared the recip guys so they mandated air intake restrictions.
I recall one objection to the Chrysler street version was that it was too quiet; danger to pedestrians. Said the man in his Prius.
But recall it on the track way back when.
Here we have the 2016 Prius and they added external noise makers to counter the silence issue for pedestrians. My Leaf compared to some Tesla seems to make a backup beep beep beep for safety too. The few Tesla's I've been around seem silent to too quiet in comparison.
A nice car, with very poor rear visibility. We bought an aftermarket backup light with a built-in beeper, running off the same wire, so it sounded only on reverse. There were two different models, I think, to cover most makes.
That would be cheap too. By the way, I just selected and had a backup camera installed on my Honda Odyssey. Lots of choices out there. But I'm loving it as no more big blind spot.
I worked for a time at the fuel farm at the Sunport in Albuquerque. I learned that kerosene is the most common, maybe the only, jet aircraft fuel. The difference between powering 707 and F-35 is the additives. Also diesel truck fuel. It has good heat content and is much less a fire risk than any other. We tanked fuel left over from all the testing of incoming from the vendors, and a local construction company bought it for their off-road Cats and such. Wasn't vetted for highway use.
I recall the early diesel engines were first fueled with rancid peanut oil.