No actually, it's not. Read the original link and you can see that they are in fact using the dishonest "math" that everyone pretty much knows they are using. Common sense should be enough to know that you can't get a legitimate 100mpg pushing around that vehicle. Maybe if they figure out how to make the IC-engine part of it better then 100% energy efficient (hint: never).
This issue is confusing enough already, but these companies know exactly what they're doing when they come out with these idiotic claims. All they're doing is throwing away any hope of having a shred of credibility.
It's almost certainly not taken from any existing circuit design. It's meant to look cool, but I think anybody who has worked with circuit boards or have looked at enough of them can see it doesn't look like a real board.
That looks like what they're doing (re: phasing out the old 405 for this new one). They're priced pretty close (if I'm reading correctly, a 405 with the HR is showing as $350 vs $370 for this 405CX).
I'm surprised they went with the bulky look for the 310... not that there's anything wrong with that (happy 305 user here). I guess they just wanted to keep a more defined differentiation between the two.
405CX looks like mostly firmware updates from the old 405, aside from updated accessories.
Not a print controller card or anything else.. that's just some random development board for testing.
And don't expect to see a giant ARM logo on the chip. fyi, ARM doesn't make cpus, they license the cores to other manufacturers who integrate them and eventually slap their own logos (like Freescale here) on them.
RS-232 doesn't necessarily need a 9-pin d-sub, but it is most definitely an electrical standard and strictly speaking, 'rs-232 over usb', isn't RS-232.
With the cost of solar panels, it doesn't even makes sense from a cost perspective most of the time when it's installed on a house where you don't have half the limitations you talk about. On a car... I don't understand the push to put one there where it makes a fraction of the energy.
As you say, it can't be the sole source of power and most likely wouldn't even be a significant source so you still need batteries even if you want to go all electric.
If I'm using solar panels, I'd rather have them installed permanently on my house and charge the car if I insist on using that as a source. The only REAL purpose for solar panels on a car is for marketing.
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This issue is confusing enough already, but these companies know exactly what they're doing when they come out with these idiotic claims. All they're doing is throwing away any hope of having a shred of credibility.