The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This one now resides in the same San Jose Pick-n-Pull as three Renault Dauphines (including a Gordini ). Having daily-driven a few cars equipped with dual SUs , I know and love/hate this hardware quite well (and I can say that the license-built Hitachi versions used on Datsuns have far superior build quality).

Volvo 104

Volvo San Jose California Vermont 104

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

Design 104

Design Engine Standards San Francisco 104

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. In English-system (vs. it is in miles.

PHEV 49

PHEV Prius Gasoline-Electric Plug-in 49

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. Running a 5-micrometer-technology chip at an 8-MHz clock rate caused it to dissipate a great deal of power—nearly 1.5

Engine 116

Engine Design Personal Production 116

Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel.

Fuel 100

Fuel Gasoline San Jose San Francisco 100