300 mpg from an electric car?
Imagine going 300 miles using just one gallon of electricity.
That would be awesome!

It's a bit blurry, but it looks to me like it says "Fly Wheel Torque" and "Fly Wheel Power" at the top of the image. Obviously it measures at the axles, but they have already factored in drivetrain losses to get the figures. So adding another 20% doesn't make any sense.

So what I'd like to konw is, how did they come up with the figures that they used to turn wheel numbers into crank numbers? And what were those figures?

You can have a flight of fancy.
You can fly in the face of convention.
But to mix the two... why that just flies in the face of fancy!

Know what works even better than holding it up to your head?

Holding it ABOVE your head.

It's all about getting the transmitter a better path to the receiver.

Superstition FTL...

Is it really a "production car" if it is "the only one in existence?" (Both quotes from the article.)

Actually if you want to understand why the spark happens when it does, it would be more helpful to look up ignition timing. Valve timing is a whole other subject.

Did those of you going on about driving skills see the car that slides sideways, at about 1 mile per hour, for about 75 feet? No amount of driving skill would help when there is simply no traction to be had.

Except possibly for the "skill" of knowing when to stay home and not drive in the first place.

Sure, it would be a great idea if it worked, but it won't work. The energy required to push the fans forward though the air is greater than the energy generated by the fans. It's not rocket science, and no amount of creativity or cleverness will overcome that... there are basic physical principles at work here, which still apply even if you don't understand them.

Scams like this can be very efficient at separating suckers from their money - but that's all.

So now Ford is going to be focusing on geography and then tailoring designs to meet customer needs, rather than focusing on customer types and then tailoring things to fit geographic trends. Weird.

Seems odd to me that they've realigned the company around geographical regions, instead of aligning around customer types. Granted, customers have their geographic idiosyncracies, but it's hard to believe that those geographical issues really differentiate consumers more than things like family vs. fleet vs. enthusiasts vs. industrial, for example.

At $450 an hour? I heard the cost of human labor was going up over there, but I had no idea it was high enough to make something like this cost-effective. Where do I sign up?