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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Its a fully electric drivetrain with a gas generator. When the battery runs low you can recharge it (even while driving) using the generator.

    So you don’t have the complexity of a combined hybrid drivetrain, but instead a normal BEV one plus a power generator, both of which are very well understood problems.

    Another benefit is that the generator can always run at its most efficient rpm/power point and is decoupled from the speed of the wheels.

    Interestingly Wankel engines have been making a bit of a comeback for this purpose since they can be built more compactly for the same output power.

    A drawback compared to hybrid drivetrains is that both components need to be built for “full” load, whilst a hybrid drivetrain can combine powers to reach maximum performance, meaning each of the motors only has to carry half (or part) of the total load.





  • Just out of curiosity I don’t see how 4 sticks die together at the exact same time unless the PSU is/has fucked up hard.

    I’d argue that the likelihood of 4 sticks failing together is much lower than the MOBO or CPU or PSU failing in a way that makes RAM inaccessible.

    Typically you’d see one stick failing at which point you could take it out and run with the other 3 (or 2 depending on configuration).

    Anyway if you ever intend to return its probably best to keep the rest of the components because who knows which of those will be up next for a shortage/crisis.