Comments by "geemy" (@geemy9675) on "Donut" channel.

  1. well this is the best engineering. makes sense although accounting for inevitable random factor, the car could very well fall to pieces right before the finish line on the next race. but here we're not talking about engineering to get the best performance but the opposite. force performance degradation by some rules. sounds like having tires that could last a whole race would not make it much slower and could allow more strategies. plus making engineering work towards improving tires instead of artificially reducing longevity. right now electric racing class sound more exciting regarding to the real-life improvements they could eventually bring
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  2. hope it's reusable at least
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  3. it's nice being able to enter the driver seat from both sides, also increases safety, entering from curbside , if only it didn't roll over or shutdown while driving 😂 it also needs removable doors for the summer
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  4. vf9 has no competition on the market though at less than half the price of model x. vf8 has also better range, performance than a 40k id4 and is sized like the id6 or like a model Y with a longer wheelbase. the battery subscription means additional cost but also covers battery replacement. if you count 110/month is maybe about the price of a Tesla replacement battery paid over 15 years... not too bad especially if you plan to do a lot of miles, and considering the savings you do upfront compared to a similar EV which is almost the cost of a battery replacement. of course this is all subject to them meeting their announced price/delivery date/specs. more generally the nice thing about leasing the battery would be enabling battery swaps on long trips but unfortunately I don't see a small manufacturer setting up a battery swap network plus it doesn't seem they are considering that path.
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  5.  @Earley405  if they're meant to be reused, yes. I've seen a few documentaries about airplane crashes, sometimes can be as dumb as a few missing bolts. Don't remember cheapening out on zip ties though , but you never know, you don't want to make any assumptions that could kill hundreds of people
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  6. best sounding 3cyl vs best sounding electric car. Actually I kinda like my 500e vacuum whine. short gearing, at 30mph it sounds like your already redlining it haha. its not loud by any mean but its not silent either. actual redline is 12800rpm at 88mph .. actualy it is much more exciting than my sorento V6
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  7. ​ @Kjedesigns well those trends will happen with or without donut even if they might have a (small) effect, but nothing like the fast & furious franchise, back 2 the future, or Bullit. Making videos on cars that are not cool/popular yet but may become in the future is not a bad idea, being ahead of the curve, catching the wave before it breaks down. you don't want to be the idiot paying hundred thousands for a JDM car. Anyway it's better to create new trends than to amplify the ones that already exist..
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  8. there was a leak that toyota is working on a prius GRMN based on the plugin version (6.5s), which the le mans prototype seems to confirm. the crazy thing is GRMN is supposed to be even more sporty than GR. I dont think its going to be sportier than a GR yaris or corolla though the le mans prototype look sick IMO, a prius GRMN with 250-300 hp, eAWD, body kit, exhaust and a manual mode sounds sweet! if they did put the RAV4 prime powertrain that thing would be legit quick. RAV4 prime is 5.7s, with 900lbs/20% weight reduction and less drag it could be 4.5s, but I think its going to be just a tuned version of the 2.0l, hopefully with also a boost for the electric powertrain
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  9. if you wanna know what really work you should check out serious attempts at cannonball run records these guys know their stuff and are generally super well prepared with thousands worth of equipment to help them drive an average 110mph cross country! of course they also have copilot with binoculars, spotters, and. carefully pick the date and time to avoid as much traffic/cops as possible
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  10.  @Pain9682  exactly. it depends on a lot of factors. how fast you're going, how long is the trip, how much you're opening the windows, and how hot it is outside. also if you have big windows, glass roof, ac is working much harder to maintain temperature. if outside temp gets close or over your body temperature, so high 90's, the more air gets in, the hotter you get. driving long distance on the highway with broken ac and 100+ F REALLY sucks trust me. but if you consider comfort/gallon AC clearly wins unless outside temp is nice
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  11.  @lonyo5377  Honda Jazz = Honda fit for US except In Europe it's more a compact family car for urban people. econobox are smaller here
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  12.  @marvinssettumba8340  well first if you're leasing the car it doesn't change much, just adding to the monthly payments like if the car was more expensive. if you buy it used years later, it's also the insurance of not having to spend a lot for a battery replacement. I'd say it depends how much you are saving on the car's price, what is the battery lifetime and replacement cost on a similar vehicle, how many miles you're driving per month. if your driving 300miles a month then at 40/month it's probably not more than the battery degradation depreciation over time. if you're driving much more than 1000miles a month then unlimited miles for 110/month sounds ok too. in between, I'm not so sure. to put things into perspective 40k plus 15years of unlimited mileage battery subscription is still less expensive than a model y. Also you can charge to 100% every day , discharge as low as you want, fast chargr whenever you want without worrying about battery degradation.
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  13. even electric, buy a used Fiat 500e for half the price and $4k used ev tax credit....better in every way power, power to weight ratio, acceleration,top speed, handling safety and only 20% longer so you can still park in tiny spaces. it's not like you're going to split lanes with it anyway..now that would be fun, Nolan you fucked that up
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  14. I didn't know..
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  15. ​ @RazRemiiX 10 speed autos have an advantage, shorter 1st gear, longer overdrive and you have a gear for every cruising speeds. but manual means the transmission does exactly what you want. not downshift when all you want is roll on the torque, not shift up or down in the middle of a corner. also when you're slowing down in a manual you can be off the throttle and controlling the shift points for either coasting or downshifting more early for. more engine braking. auto transmission can do some of these things but only if you are in the right mode. eco will short shift on upshifts and coast off the throttle, sport will push each. gear longer, and downshift more aggressively. I don't want to be constantly switching between mode when I'm driving. I've never driven an auto smart enough to guess what I want. for me it's just easier to put the gear I want rather than doing guess work to know at what throttle pedal it's going to down shift, how many gears it's gonna drop etc. in an auto you are removing the stick but the throttle pedal controls too many things I have no problem with EVs single gear because they'll always do exactly what you're asking. Autos are somewhat fine for big vehicles with enough displacement/power reserve that you re always using them at partial throttle. manual best for smaller cars with smaller engine and you want to use every bit of the performance that's available (like the 1L small hatch I learned from drive on) and better for twisty/canyon roads
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  16.  @lonyo5377  my regret about ICE is free valve which is too late/too slow to the party. amazing tech which can do away with secondary cat by warming up cat very quickly, and optimize power/efficiency/emissions for every rpm/load condition without compromise (see TFG turbocharged 600hp 2.0l inline 3)
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  17.  @jzyyz  both come from the same word accord in french. different notes that go well together, like they come to an agreement
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  18.  Damar Fadlan  if you drive 4000miles per month that is only $.027 per mile and you don't have to spend another 20k when your battery is 150-200k after 3-4 years. to have similar cost per mile a Tesla battery would have to last 800kmile which only happens in Elon Musk's tweets. go look online you'll see a 2103 model s with 110k miles and a dead battery selling for 10k. I'd rather have paid 12k over 9 years and get a new battery for free than sell the car for scraps. even as a used car, I'd rather buy a 10yo EV with a battery subscription than take the chance of the car becoming worth almost nothing overnight due to a battery failure
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  19. so our best chance of seeing a Sony EV is if an ev manufacturer partners with Nintendo or Microsoft ?
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  20.  @graemejohnson9025  but way faster around the track (15 to 30s faster !) especially around corners and they brake much harder, so it's much harder on the body also the fastest formula 1 ever was 231 mph in 2005 in 1976 the top speed was 195mph and lauda crashed at 175mph. the cars were way slower in every aspects I'm not downplaying the records at the time , safety was way worse and you could die in any crash. but the Gs that current drivers experience during braking or cornering are so strong that there is not a lot of room for improvement without affecting the precision of the driving. without regulation on aero, the drivers would simply pass out in the corners or they would need g suits like jet fighters
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  21.  @Silverhands  you can multiply torque. just need two cogs. you cant multiply power. that's physics
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  22.  @matthewmiller3392  it's "free" only if you have a mild hybrid that will use Regen to charge the 48v battery. on the highway on cruise control, coasting will only happen downhill
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  23. also if you have 4 windows all the way down and going 45mph it's not going to be more efficient than AC set at reasonable temp
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  24.  @h8GW  the funny (sad?) part is all these people driving trucks with empty beds that they use once in a blue moon, complaining about gas price, and trying to save 1 mpg with the tailgate position. because most people are not moving 4x8s on a daily basis. Funny thing is Americans think they need to pay people to cook for them, refill their glass, file their taxes, walk their dogs, mow their lawn,etc..but he'll everyone needs his own truck because he's maybe going to build his own house all by himself ', and haul all that hundreds of tons of materials back and forth from home Depot. get real, you're gonna pay someone to do it too 🤣🤣🤣
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  25.  @antecboy  LFP have other advantages asides from being cheaper/not using rare earth materials, and safer. faster charging, longer life, less/no significant degradation from charging to 100% vs 80%. I would say if you don't live in very cold climate it's a better compromise than li ion for instance LFP Teslas are cheaper, you can charge to 100% daily , charge faster, and they have been tested to drive 30+ miles AFTER REACHING 0% So your effective range or road trip charging time is really not that worse, you could each chargers with 5% without much risk thanks to the large buffer under 0%
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  26. google it was not meant to replace the dyno but to cheat
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  27.  @Ascend777  Fit = Jazz in most of the world
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  28. ​ @TheWinjin bentley windlws are probably much heavier than VW though
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  29. there are solutions. give them a few more years and in the meantime force those exotic cars to use expensive "zero emission carbon neutral" fuel like solar powered hydrogen or other synthetic fuel, that will be hard and expensive to enforce, but if the exotic cars buyers are willing to pay for the additional cost for the devices enforcing it, and manufacturers play fair and don't leave easy backdoors to hack , and let the cars run on regular gas with a simple ECU reprogramming, that could be an acceptable compromise. cheap cars could use it too but it would be cost prohibitive. hopefully electric performance and cost means most buyers-at least those who plan to daily drive those cars-will chose electric, and supercars brands that fully commit to electric will have the technological edge in the future.
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  30.  @missourimongoose7643  that is a big concern, but would stopping buying those metals improve the life of the people who work there ? unfortunately there is probably no easy solution those places who lack any kind of public service, justice, education, democracy, with crumbling economy, corruption, inflation... it takes years to help them rebuild their future. but you're right that not feeding this vicious circle by not blindly feeding those systems with money is an important part.
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  31.  @gjs9871  biodiesel does not have a lower carbon footprint if you need to cut millions of acres of forest to produce it. plus you need to transport it too. burning things at the rate we are doing it is not renewable. recycling takes energy but it works if this energy comes From renewables too. by the way there are hundreds of types of batteries / capacitors that are being developed, and that have different ecological impact. right now only a few are economically viable and mass produced, but it will change in the next years/decades.
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  32.  @hugolundinlundin8033  hydrogen production/compression/cooling/storage and transport is not efficient, 35% at lost before even counting transport, or if you use fossil energy to create it, it defeats the purpose. so for renewable hydrogen you also need to produce a lot more energy, meaning much more power plants, even if they are renewable. it also makes it much less likely to produce your own hydrogen locally, compress it, than having simple solar panels feeding energy into you car & the grid.
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  33.  @danieljensen329  if you have a better look at the price they are 10-20k lower for a 300 miles midsize AWD EV crossover sized like the model Y. the vf9 only compare to a model Y and is half the price
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  34.  @mukamuka0  it's your car so they can't take it. it wouldn't make economical sense to send someone take your battery apart and try to sell it or take the cells apart and sell them so I think you're safe. it sucks if your battery almost needs replacement and you paid years of subscription though. plus good luck finding a replacement battery of course you'd have to read the conditions carefully they might have for instance a clause where they can ask you to pay for the battery residual value or your battery gets disabled
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  35.  @arttulignell800  see it as paying for the battery degradation that will still happen even if you hardly drive the car. you'll get a "free" battery replacement after 10-20years. price per mile sounds too high though, similar to gas cost with a 25-30 mpg crossover and $3/ gallon. obviously buying a 300 miles EV when you drive 300 miles a month doesn't make sense anyway, just keep you old gas car the subscription becomes interesting if you are driving a lot since the subscription cost will be less than battery depreciation anyway it's not that dumb if you consider it as financing the battery plus financing/insurance for the next battery replacement. you just have to trust the brand to stay alive for as long as you are planning to maintain it.
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  36.  @Bangin0utWest  that's not the only effect of Eco mode. pedal/throttle curve is usually changed too even though most people will just press the pedal harder..btw lower rpm is not always better for fuel economy. for every speed / load there's an optimum gear / throttle body position / amount of gas. hybrids with ecvt are usually highly optimized for efficiency and can select exactly the best gear ratio. it's very surprising how even in eco mode, those hybrids will rev quite high every time you smash the throttle. it's also disturbing if you're not used to it, even more if you drive manuals.
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  37. even though its narrow, avoiding potholes sounds tricky when you have 3 wheels that are not aligned
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  38.  @AwesomeBlackDude  maybe not a coincidence..
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  39.  @soandso4169  yeah find something that's more fair. slower even than a model T. model S ? oops
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  40.  @graemejohnson9025  Well you can disagree with F1 or not like it but it was always manufacturers racing each other with lots of money, smart engineering, and great drivers, in this order. very rarely a driver could win the championship with a slower car, but usually the team that could afford the best car could also afford (some of) the best drivers and win. Lauda won with Ferrari and McLaren when they were at their peak, not with an underdog underperforming car.. Even within the same team, drivers didn't always have the same performance or the same attention, so it was almost never a "fair fight"
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  41.  @graemejohnson9025  also car were way slower in the lauda era. doesn't mean that they were easier, but physical impact on the driver was not as extreme (until the car crashed...) I don't see F1 rebooting to lower tech then current road cars like manual transmissions, but maybe that would be te way to introduce more driving skills.
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  42.  @Insanias  meaning don't fart!
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  43.  @lawofliberty3517  yep air drag is THE single most important factor for highway mpg. of course with the engine efficiency but you can change that by rolling your windows or turning ac on/off. that's why it's very surprising to experience better mpg with windows down. having driven I95 I can tell 55mph is not very likely unless you wanna get blown past by semis/truck hauling boats. I've seen people tow huge boats 80-90mph in strong rain storm with almost zero visibility 🙄 also rolling down your windows in the summer in Florida is like blowing steam to your face.
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  44. ok, what I want is a DI 4/2 strokes free valve engine... switching to two strokes would be like a VTEC kicking at some rpm/loads to increase power. or maybe with a button !
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  45. ​ @TermlessHGW toyota maintenance too boring? oil changes, tires and brake pads 😂
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  46. racing off road with a truck meant to haul stuff slowly and using leaf springs that needs hundreds of upgrades to be half decent then break into pieces during rhe race sounds a bit dumb. why not start with something more lightweight
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  47. but it totally makes sense. I instinctively kinda do it with my MTB. I always store it in middle gear as a compromise to keep both tension in the derailleur on the lower side, and the chain straight. the big ass granny gear 46T cog puts a lot of tension on the derailleur I guess I just have better understanding on how bikes work compared to torque wrench
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  48. all-ev sales doesn't mean all-ev on the roads..it gives plenty of time for people who buy used cars and for EV prices to come down. even if it means slightly more expensive cars at purchase, the overall running cost will still be cheaper. let's hope it won't mean cars rushed to production and reduction in quality
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  49.  @brianm.595  it's not really a problem if people who put driving a V12 above everything can't do road trips with their cars because they don't find hydrogen pumps anywhere. just put hydrogen stations at the tracks, one in Monaco, and let them pay whatever price is needed to have their own hydrogen solar powered generator that will give them 10 miles worth of hydrogen / day. although synthetic liquid) fuel seem more practical, practicality is not really a factor here.
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  50. ​ @Yvaneify  maybe it is changing with the price cuts but people driving corollas are doing housemaid /ubering or delivering food to people who own Teslas. They probably dont have the tax liability to get 7500 tax credit, not homeowner, etc. and are not interested in anything fancy in a car just reliability and affordbility
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