The Brand Behind Your Robot Vacuum Strapped Rockets To Its EV Claiming 0-62 In 0.9 Seconds
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Excellent_League3718@reddit
damn a street legal rocket car
SophistXIII@reddit
Finally, a vehicle that would allow me to safely merge on the freeway
Von_Jelway@reddit
Honestly anything slower than this is simply dangerous to drive on the freeway.
ClaudeVS@reddit
My 2.4L carbureted 95 4runner would like to disagree
PurpleSausage77@reddit
And so the bar has been raised, no—thrusted, on higher.
Sub7viaLimeWire@reddit
This made me chuckle, but when everyone has 1.9 to 60 EVs maybe you need some thrusters after paying the toll.
CaptainMegaNads@reddit
But wait, my rocket engines are depleted!!!
ArcticBP@reddit
But how can I tow all of my possessions and a trailer on my daily commute to the office?
jondes99@reddit
Your trailer doesn’t have a rocket?
holymacaronibatman@reddit
Ahh but you'll invariably be stuck behind someone who doesn't start to accelerate until the ramp ends.
Maximilianne@reddit
Robot vacuum maker to car maker isn't so crazy, Peugeot used to make grinders
normalguysupercar@reddit
Mitsubishi used to make grinders, too.
EfficientTourist7480@reddit
They made the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor before the cars
Ok_Two_2604@reddit
Mitsubishi isn’t one company, though.
Aftershok@reddit
If you want to actually down to that level of granularity, none of the “x company still makes y product” statements are actually true. They are all just names used by tangled webs of various holding companies in the end.
221missile@reddit
True about Subaru though.
Ok_Two_2604@reddit
Fair enough.
Recoil42@reddit
Mitsubishi makes those Coke machines that let you pick any flavour. True story.
BayLAGOON@reddit
Apparently it was the Pepsi machines they did. But Pininfarina designed the casing for the Coke machines.
Nickelnuts@reddit
Mitsubishi makes everything
Recoil42@reddit
me: i would like to buy a small family sedan
mitsubishi: ok
me: i'd also like to buy a cruise missile lol do u know where i can find a good one?
mitsubishi: you're not gonna believe this
Nickelnuts@reddit
I had a Mitsubishi TV growing up. I also work in the elevator trade and worldwide Mitsubishi is in the top 5 biggest elevator companies
PotatoGamerXxXx@reddit
I've had no experience in the industry other than riding elevators on apartments. Mitsubishi usually break down the least, but that Schindler button is just *chef kiss.
Glowinthedarkdick@reddit
Also tvs and many many other appliances.
peanutbuttahcups@reddit
The WWII kind?
Cloudsareinmyhead@reddit
It'd be easier to say what industrial stuff Mitsubishi doesn't make
ScrambledEggFucker@reddit
r/carscirclejerk had a field trip with the garbage that ‘Bishi has made over the years :)
EfficientTourist7480@reddit
Glock made curtain rods and door knobs before the Glock 17 (it was the 17th patent)
trail-g62Bim@reddit
Not a car, but Nintendo being founded in 1889 as a company making playing cards is one of my favorite bits of trivia. They also had a short lived string of love hotels at one point.
Recoil42@reddit
they could honestly do really well bringing this back
aBigOLDick@reddit
Ugh, the smell of all those nerds going to a Nintendo whore house would make Japan's nuclear disasters seem like a minor inconvenience.
trail-g62Bim@reddit
/r/brandnewsentence
Recoil42@reddit
Toyota, famously, was a loom-maker.
Cloudsareinmyhead@reddit
Lamborghini starred out making tractors and air conditioning units.
Senappi@reddit
There are still Lamborghini tractors veing made https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-nd/
Mr_Marram@reddit
Jeremy Clarkson (in)famously got one on his TV show "Clarkson's Farm". Everyone slated him because it is not very good, and it's too big for his barn.
Senappi@reddit
I have no knowledge about Lambo tractors, but Lamborghini trattori and Deutz-Fahr are both owned by SDF Group and Deutz-Fahr are really good.
Glowinthedarkdick@reddit
Mitsubishi and Daewoo make tv's lol.
zerogee616@reddit
One is a keiretsu and one is a chaebol.
aBigOLDick@reddit
Mitsubishi also makes a/c units.
MikeofLA@reddit
Mitsubishi make a LOT more than cars and TVs. Including industrial automation systems, HVAC units, electrical equipment, aerospace components, and ships. Not to mention they have massive mining, gas, and construction operations throughout the world.
lockpickerkuroko@reddit
Not to mention being part of the same keiretsu as one of the three big banks in Japan, MUFG.
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
Mitsubishi makes anything, they even make beer and pencil. Anyway, they aren’t Zaibatsu anymore, the group is more like Saab and Volvo.
Paladin5890@reddit
I think you also forgot that they make completed aerospace products. As in, fighter jets.
Mighty Wings followed by Danger Zone plays in the background
bungblaster69@reddit
mitsubishi zero and mitsubishi evo
dropping bombs on domestics since the 40s
Racer_Space@reddit
They also make tanks!
kinkade@reddit
By all accounts, the Lamborghini countache drove like a tractor that had taken meth.
wkns@reddit
A car is a tractor with AC bro
Anchor_Aways@reddit (OP)
That's not true per say, the founder made his money there but created a separate car company. The two businesses were never connected iirc.
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
And, Toyota just buys back their loom-maker business in recent.
Pinecone@reddit
The most famous loom they made was the carbon fiber loom for the LFA.
Bderken@reddit
I am not smart enough to understand what this means
AmazonPuncher@reddit
Its plain english
Not_RAMBO_Its_RAMO@reddit
i speak gibbersh
peanutbuttahcups@reddit
Do they also run a cabal of assassins who have the ability to curve bullets in a shootout?
Recoil42@reddit
Sure, why not.
NyoomNyoomNyoomNyoom@reddit
Mazda was founded as a cork company before transitioning to three-wheeled rickshaws, took a quick side quest to make some guns, and finally started making passenger cars in 1960
RevvCats@reddit
Peugeot still makes excellent pepper mills
mopar39426ml@reddit
Agreed. I intentionally bought one knowing it used to be the same company and I'd heard they were excellent.
One of my favorite kitchen purchases I've ever made.
PRSArchon@reddit
Different company though
RevvCats@reddit
True, but it used to be the same company. I’m glad Stellantis has nothing to do with my pepper mill.
ZombiePope@reddit
It would probably leak oil and have 3 major safety recalls if they did
tablepennywad@reddit
Except Dyson dumped three quarters of a billion and gave up on their Ev.
Gas_Grass_Ass_Class@reddit
Still do. I use one everyday
doughball27@reddit
They still do I believe. At least branded as. I just bought one.
Even-Promotion-4024@reddit
Can't forget about VW Bratwursts if we're playing this game
Recoil42@reddit
Volkswagen didn't start out as a hot-dog maker, they just had them in their cafeteria and decided to sell them. They were already making cars at that time.
orangebakery@reddit
Yamaha makes Pianos and Motorcycles
ctn91@reddit
There’s an app for that
voltb778@reddit
https://peugeot-saveurs.com
RazingsIsNotHomeNow@reddit
Complete vaporware. Go read the Autopian article on it. This was never designed to function, let alone be produced.
FreeEnergy001@reddit
Wasn't this also Elon's plan for the new sports car?
Moistinterviewer@reddit
This car uses solid rockets which cannot be turned off once activated, good luck with that..
eirexe@reddit
well it's not longer an EV now is it
saazbaru@reddit
Is a rocket motor internal combustion or external combustion?
ChuckoRuckus@reddit
Internal, otherwise it wouldn’t be a rocket
Sensitive_Box_@reddit
Right, external would be an explosive car. Lmao
zerogee616@reddit
Nah, steam and Stirling engines are external-combustion. All that means is the fuel is burned before it enters the engine.
SweatyRussian@reddit
Sometimes external, when they go boom
wander9077@reddit
Both. Some have ABRE (After burning rocket engines that inject into the plume).
coherent-rambling@reddit
Internal. External combustion is typically a steam engine or Stirling engine. Also steam turbines, if you count those as different from a steam engine.
saazbaru@reddit
It’s a joke bro. Only thing I can think of that’s genuinely external combustion is jet engine reheat.
CaptainMegaNads@reddit
So, like charging an EV on grid power. )Unless the grid is powered by solar or geo-derived)
pigwona@reddit
Exhaust in normal cars just takes a longer path.
CaptainMegaNads@reddit
External combustion is charging an EV using grid power.
Recoil42@reddit
A little of Column A, a little of Column B.
eirexe@reddit
Internal
djseifer@reddit
Depends if you hit a wall.
fiero-fire@reddit
Yeah it's a RAEV
popsicle_of_meat@reddit
Give it four rockets and now it's a RAEV-4
Ghost17088@reddit
Technically, if they used electrolysis to make hydrogen for the rocket… /s
gumol@reddit
those are solid rocket motors
KeyboardGunner@reddit
Never going to make it to a production car.
Megatron_McLargeHuge@reddit
Until someone straps JATO bottles to a Chevy Impala.
https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html
Ok_Combination_4482@reddit
When u read strapped rockets in the title did u think there was a chamce of it making to production?
KeyboardGunner@reddit
Before reading the article I assumed they were talking about a cold gas system, which would have been slightly more realistic.
DeviousMelons@reddit
Even then I'd be suprised of it would make that much of a difference unless the car is super light.
RazingsIsNotHomeNow@reddit
The Tesla Roadster concept/ vaporware popularized the idea of using cold gas rockets to speed up the car, so a lot of theoretically math has already been done to try and understand how it would work.
You're right, rockets fired out the back doesn't make sense. The only way it makes sense is if you have absurd amounts of ev motor power you are unable to get traction with off the line. Thus, you aim the rockets straight down on launches to make up for not having drag radials.
It's still incredibly stupid, but you can somewhat make sense of cold gas thrusters. Engineering Explained has an old video on it. This Concept is quite possibly one of the least realistic concepts in the last 70 years, since they were trying to stick nuclear reactors and gas turbines into cars.
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
I still impressive in GM nuclear powered car and Chrysler jet car concepts.
Ok_Combination_4482@reddit
Aight ur clearly more educated than me.
peanutbuttahcups@reddit
Thought it was a step above the Fiero rocket from Fast and Furious 9.
PRSArchon@reddit
Well fully functional jet engine cars have been made as on-offs, even OEM
Cloudsareinmyhead@reddit
Yes but key thing about those are those were liquid fuelled.
PRSArchon@reddit
Agreed, solid fuel seems unpractical at best.
anonquestionsprot@reddit
Lox boosters allow you thrust variability and the ability to turn them off, with SRBs they have two states, 100% or 0%, you can't turn them off you simply wait for them to run out of fuel
5kyl3r@reddit
especially given the fact that solid boosters can not be turned off; they burn until they're out of fuel
Glaesilegur@reddit
That's all just a matter of perspective. When you let off the throttle there is still some lag in the system. The throttle body has to close, there's fuel already on its way to the injectors. It's not long, but in the grand scheme of things the solid rocket booster isn't long lasting either.
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
Chinese automakers can now waste their money in these unrealistic dreams ? I wonder how they gotten that money to built these stupid ideas.
All right, they need to go insane because China needs to prove that they’re best in the world. /s
Eggonioni@reddit
I'm pretty sure that published video for it is like 90% AI slop.
ALOIsFasterThanYou@reddit
...I think a lot of people here are missing the point of a concept car. They're meant to be far-out, ludicrous ideas, production realities be damned.
Please, more of these actual concept cars instead of slapping giant wheels and rubberband tires on a soon-to-enter-production car and calling it a day
piercerson25@reddit
I like my Dreame Z10 Pro. It vacuums decently well and talks like the Terminator "Come with me if you want to clean"
clutchthepearls@reddit
Have an L10S Ultra. Vacuums and mops. I dig it.
Porshuh@reddit
Can we please stop making car bodies so tall that we need the entire bottom half of the car to be black?
Eggith@reddit
Did they use the same CAD program that John Hennessy used? That thing looks REALLY similar to the Venom F5. Especially the rear and headlights
jrileyy229@reddit
Forget about the rocket gimmick, let's get to then point where someone is ACTUALLY building solid state battery in large production capacity... And they actually work
Hackwork89@reddit
I had a Mitsubishi VCR.
nickN42@reddit
They still make pencils. Pretty decent ones at that.
Pyrochazm@reddit
Me too! My little sister filled it with coins, and my dad actually paid someone to fix the damn thing.
dojuebelonginagangg@reddit
The human body isn't built for that kind of acceleration
LegoGuy23@reddit
The rear end makes me think that someone wanted to make the Batmobile into a real car.
thefanciestcat@reddit
I would argue it's less real than the Batmobile, as there have been multiple Batmobiles made that drive.
PurpleSausage77@reddit
Well it is a jet car, and those already exist even if they are made in someone’s backyard to race down the drag strip (saw one of these, loud as unholy sin, could feel the heat off it from the stands)
Jet fuel ain’t cheap though, it’s up 100% since Iran squabbles.
Ancient_Persimmon@reddit
This allegedly has SRBs, not turbines.
gtfckdbrnlssbts@reddit
yeah well? my Shitboxirari that totally exists does it in 0.00001 seconds
furrynoy96@reddit
Holy Hot Wheels
Pyrochazm@reddit
Fun!
GGCRX@reddit
Dumb on a number of levels. The caption writer doesn't know the difference between a jet engine and a rocket. Assuming they really did spec a solid-fuel rocket, it's dumb because of the legal hurdles you would need to jump in order to legally activate the boost.
Any rocket engine more powerful than the little coin roll-sized ones kids put in their hobby shop model rockets requires a high-power rocketry certification. There are multiple levels of certification, all of which involve building and successfully launching and landing a rocket.
It's a long learning process that will cost you thousands in materials alone, assuming you don't screw up and have to buy extra.
You might be able to get out of that by convincing someone that since you'll never put it in a flying rocket and will only fire it on the ground. But ground-firing a rocket like that requires that the rocket be on an immovable structure and that it be fired by a licensed pyrotechnics operator.
And THEN you have the problem that every time you use boost, you have to replace the rockets, which will be several thousand or more.
And all that's assuming this would even be legal to sell, which it wouldn't, and it assumes the company's lawyers would ever be comfortable enough from a liability standpoint to let it be sold, which they wouldn't.
Jamaican_Dynamite@reddit
Someone played GTA, and said "let's actually build the Rocket Voltic". And that's a sentence I didn't think I'd get to say today.