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Is driving car in first gear bad for gearbox (or maybe for other mechanical parts)?
It's claimed sometimes that the first gear must be used only to start moving and you should shift into second as soon as possible because driving in first gear is not good for the gearbox/motor/in general. Is it really so? As far as I know the only…
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Can a car run on water? As per this experiment
The Agha Waqar's car that ran on water was a great news for a long time. Where a Pakistan based inventor invented a car that got all the power from water.
He was using a water kit to get the energy.
Here is a WikiPedia page for that too:…
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Can a Renault Megane drive 1700 km with 1 tank?
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See the above advert which claims that Renault Megane can cover 1700km with one tank.
According to this link the Megane model has a fuel tank capacity of 60 Liters.
Can the Megane cover 28.3 Kms per liter of petrol?
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Are Teslas with autopilot system safer than vehicles without it?
An AP article describes some recent crashes that may have been linked to the Tesla autopilot system. The article states that there have been three fatal crashes since 2016 potentially linked to the autopilot and implies it may be dangerous.
The…
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Do we have enough renewable energy for a humanity only using electrical cars?
One of my relatives claimed that electrical cars are overhyped and my relative somewhere read that we don't even have enough (renewable!) power to support a humanity in which only electrical cars are used.
Is that true?
And what if "not renewable"…
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Does using a neck brace reduce damage taken in a car crash?
In the movie Focus, you can find this scene, where a man puts on a neck brace, before crashing into another car, and this same guy seems to be the only one unscathed. I know movies tend to portray crazy stuff but, would doing that in real life make…
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Did farmers adopt cars faster than inhabitants of cities?
I learned from this post: Start with a niche that:
Cars are almost among the lucky exception to the niche rule. However, there was still one group of people in the USA that moved from horses to cars enormously fast — farmers. ... Nevertheless, cars…
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Does leaving the fan on during an RV a/c cycle time save energy?
When running an RV a/c during the summer, is it more energy-efficient to let the fan run while the compressor is cycling? Does it cause more wear and tear? Does it even matter if you allow the fan to run?
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Was the car that broke down near a West Virginian coal mine in September 2022 electric?
Recently, Donald Trump shared a link (via Truth Social) to a September 2, 2022 Western journal article that described an electric car needing to be pushed up to a coal plant to get charged.
“Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from DC…
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Does HONDA have a model called CBR 660RR?
http://www.sagmart.com/news/Automobiles/honda-is-going-to-reveal-its-new-bike-cbr-600rr-this-december
The design of this new CBR is awesome; you surely skip a beat when it
passes through the way. With its stylish aerodynamic design, this bike
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