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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by KptMarchewa on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:02PM (#26857361)
Maybe cars powered by literally thousands of explosions per second?
Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by caf on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:59PM (#26858150)
I freely admit this is a pedantic point, but it's extraordinarily doubtful that any road car reaches 2000 ignitions per second (the threshold for "thousands").

In a 4-stroke engine each cylinder ignites once every two revolutions, so even a 12-cylinder engine wouldn't reach 2000 ignitions per second until 20,000 RPM.

A more typical case - say, a 6 cylinder engine hitting the redline at 7,000RPM is experiencing 350 ignitions per second - so, hundreds rather than thousands.

Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by KptMarchewa on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:53PM (#26864964)
Thanks.
Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by gugagore on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:12PM (#26857437)
So batteries on cars is analogous to cars? I mean, could be. Maybe the EV battery is just like a gasoline tank, but something suggests that there are important differences.