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Ha. A newbie. First things first: There's the consumables, then the not so consumables. First: A gallon of windshield washer fluid. Since that...
There's two sets of planetary gears on the Prius. Set #1 is connected to (a) the ICE, (b) MG1, and (c) a shaft to the second planetary gear. Set...
Just to make things a little clearer: Imagine a sine wave. It goes from zero, to some positive value, back to zero, then to some negative value,...
Think twice, and maybe three times, about trying to use WiFi for anything critical in the car. External interference can be real; never mind...
1. I have a 2010 III, which I like. However, I would dearly have loved to have the backup cameras. Compared to every other car I've ever driven,...
Tpfun, I think I'm going to beg to differ with your interpretation of this graph. First, please note that this graph has the trip-by-trip MPG...
Tom, I'm perfectly aware that a slipping wheel on a moving car is into the dynamic friction area. Seeing as you're from Northern Michigan, you...
Yep. That's what the car does when a door's open. What you should get is a little voice saying, "The door is ajar", when, of course, a door and a...
Well, I'm going to slightly disagree with you here. Maximum static friction occurs an instant before the tires start slipping. So, if one is...
Speaking as a EE type: Lightbulbs do burn out. There's the usual gaussian bell-curve on how long they last, but one also gets the the "bathtub"...
Umm.. That's about the car being towed, not the car towing something. Fun, though! KBeck
No arguments with what you're saying. You could even be right. On the other hand, and no offense meant, you could be wrong, too. Or there could be...
Well, there's two things here. First, there's terminology. "Traditional" Continuously Variable Transmissions usually involve some kind of belt...
There have been endless discussions on this. What follows is my (as usual) confused summary of these: The 2010-on Priuses have a better VSC than...
Ingenia, You've got bigger problems than that, I think. There's a t least one extra degree of freedom in the equations: The battery. And along...
I think that was a misspelling. But the image is priceless: Like a rock skipping across a pond, a Prius skipping down the road... KBeck
Umm.. You may have missed his location: It's Orlando, Florida. When the oceans rise 100 feet due to Global Warming, all of Florida, all at once,...
For what it's worth, I used to deliver papers, by bicycle, back in the it's-way-too-long-to-confess-and-shows-my-age-anyway time. Mind you,...
Just a heads-up, for those of you who don't know about the Green E-ZPass program in New Jersey. E-ZPass transponders work on toll roads from Maine...
There's been six to a dozen similar failrure reports on Prisuchat. Sometimes it's the left side, sometimes it's the right. In all cases the...
