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Devil's advocate: Ford's most important customer doesn't even know what overboost means. These are people that buy F150s solely based on how tough they think it will look on a $200 body lift kit sitting in the testosterone clinic parking lot. Seriously though, it's not just that they aren't...

Well it certainly doesn't seem like a good one. I don't know what the additional profit looks like on pano vs non-pano GT, but they lost whatever total profit was there on at least one GT sale. Maybe they make it up with increased throughput and profit on the glass. ?‍♂️

Not only am I not impressed, they literally pushed me out as a potential buyer. I don't want a glass roof. Ever. On any car. No matter what coating it has on it. I have a 2021 GT that's built but won't be here for like another month. Now we're planning on moving in the next year, and I don't...

It sounds like you're suggesting the efficiency loss with flux weakening is what GT owners are seeing at like 6-7k rpm, and it's just not. Meaningful, perceptible mechanical power reduction secondary to flux weakening efficiency losses should occur well beyond everyday speeds with a 9.05 gear...

Good god. hp = T x rpm/5252 Torque drops because power is held constant. It does not fucking matter why it's held constant. Plaid is PMSM. Model 3 is PMSM. Induction on earlier/other Teslas was/is 100% for efficiency. Induction shits the bed at high rpms unless you increase costs exorbitantly...

No. Flux weakening doesn’t “cause” high speed loss of power despite that article that was posted on the drive. It’s used to keep power at the unit’s max, and it starts at like 30-40 mph. This has been beaten to death.

WTF is this? No one said ADM was "good." I pointed out that your claim that you're not a "rube" or a "low information buyer" simply because you haven't paid ADM for a car in your lifetime is just silly. Do you have any idea how many people think just like you do? That they're this special "hard...

Looks dope dude. Any rubbing up front?

You shouldn't feel bad. He's been fairly consistently condescending on here since day 1. The whole idea that "MSRP" is some magic number that never paying above makes you "smart" is a salesman's dream. It's why people like him walk away from a deal paying far more than market demand and feel...

If that 628 is for real, this could at least partially be due to motor design with the exception being those 50-70 pulls that seem to be quicker from a roll. Outside those pulls though, the numbers would actually fit with the physics of a higher torque EM motor relative to the Tesla units as far...

My man. Just go read some stuff. Your occupation says engineer which, if true, means you are more than adequately educated to accurately interpret the absolute MOUNTAIN of published literature on the subject of EM field generation and electric motors. Induction has its uses, as we've already...

Dude. Nice! Ok so can you educate me here? RWD unit looks just like it "should" for high torque extended constant power to near max. As I understand it, compared to higher power, lower torque (and usually smaller) units, acceleration curves should cross at some equivalent speed with the higher...

Not at 1/4 mile. Published power curves for most Teslas usually have constant power starting to trail off at around 70-80 mph or so, well before 1/4 trap speeds, which is perfectly normal for an EV use case. You can design EVs where the constant power zone extends beyond 1/4 mile speeds which is...

As much as I appreciate the "traction" this is getting, the dude obviously doesn't know what he's talking about with field weakening being the reason torque falls off. HP = (torque x RPM)/5252 So if you keep power constant (which just happens to be doable in an electric motor in part because...

My man. ENJOY it. All these peeps on here that are all "OMG terrible deal" are zero fun at parties. At the end of the day you essentially got your tax credit, got a bonus of less finance interest paid and lower excise tax, and didn't have to wait for freaking months on end (like I am--it...

It's far more than just "performance and numbers" if you drive on any interstate highway ever during your ownership of the car.

That "peak torque at 90% of rpm" you speak of is the torque curve for constant frequency excitation in an induction motor. In other words, that's what the torque curve would look like IF THEY DIDN'T UTILIZE VARIABLE FREQUENCY EXCITATION which is the whole reason IMs even work in EVs. Like do you...

I just cannot imagine continuing to dig when you've made it clear to anyone who knows a fair amount about electric motors that you have no idea what you're talking about. Induction motors have several benefits and compromises relative to perm magnet motors. They're typically cheaper to build (no...

Yo You suspect wrong. This has been put to bed…multiple times over. The GTs are not holding at max HP for as long into rpms, which in an EM motor is a function of power draw.