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Old 05-01-2024, 04:45 PM
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Default It was inevitable.

Had to happen sooner rather then later. The all electric Corvette.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/che...5-ev-corvette/

I know this is nit picky, but who is educating automotive writers these days? Article says:

"The first all-electric powered Corvette joining the competition could mean the dawn of a new era: the electric supercar."

Guess they have not heard of the CURRENT already existing electric supercars.

Second nit pick; used the "accumulative" when they should have used the word "cumulative".

Reminds me of the morons that keep saying "irregardless" when they mean "regardless".
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Old 05-01-2024, 05:07 PM
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You know, I'm finding that a lot now too... and I fear many of the articles we find are written by bots, or ChatGPT, or AI or whatever... gah.
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The worst screw up I have seen in the last few years is repeated over and over on the net.

There are morons that think a "180 degree" crank V8 only fires once every 180 degrees of engine rotation, and that a "90 degree" crank fires every 90 degrees of engine rotation. They don't understand that the different cranks don't affect how OFTEN it fires, just the firing order.
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I thought a 180 degree crank meant someone put it in backwards
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720deg of crankshaft rotation/8 cylinders = a combustion event at every 90 degrees of crankshaft rotation.
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You would think an "automotive journalist" would get that.
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Another silly excerpt from that editorial...
"As much as it may be painful to admit, electric-powered vehicles tend to perform better than the gas gobblers, especially when it comes to instant torque with a blip of the gas pedal."
Really ? She's writing about an ELECTRIC car and uses the word GAS pedal ?? Um,maybe use Throttle pedal ??
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I see accelerator and e-Pedal being used.
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