Yeah on the linear acceleration, though there's actually a bump at about 20 and another at about 50 with the engine running and the hammer down where things kind of change. I don't know about times - these new cars with the laggy speedos are tough to get that measurement on, but compared to the Cruze, the distance to speed is a lot less - say a 5 car lengths or so to 50 mph. That "no lag" thing is a fairly big deal there, and now I need not fear turning left across traffic. The Cruze "seemed" faster because of all that winding and shifting and vibrating, but were it counts, maybe not! You really do need to find a twisty road to check it out on. While it's no Camaro, it's not shabby at all on the river road you had a little fun on last time - you might make the trip in about the same time in this, with less sweat on your brow. That low CG and the good tires - no body roll, very good gees, extremely nice traction control. I''m not missing the hot rod, this is good enough - and you can see out of it a lot better. I'm hoping for more snow now that I can turn off the traction control. When I tried to do "twirl the car" with it on, I plain failed to get it loose! With it off, you can get a nice burnout on pavement...you have to try a little (left turn or a puddle) but once going you can get all the smoke you'd want.
I'm doing a major solar system upgrade here to support more and quicker charging of mine. I'll be detailing that in the place for it soon. What I found out that might be of interest to the machinists here, is that the standard inverter I got - easily supports generating 3 phase if you use 3 of them. You can chain them in various ways up to 30kw (average, a few times that peak) and get pretty much what you want out of them, they've advanced since the last one I got - which was no slouch. They, the charge controllers, the remote control panel, generator autostart, and the internet gateway (yeah!) all connect on a CAN type bus with no fuss! That's pretty cool.
The brand is now called Schneider, but was Xantrex before, and Trace before that. Man, those guys make some seriously high quality stuff. At any rate, what I'm doing is putting in a semi-dedicated 240v circuit to just run the car charger, the welders and lathe (which is all my 240v stuff) - most of those aren't on at the same time. And oh yes, the fusor, which is run off 240 - and that Spellman can eat 5kw on peaks. I'm going to toss that crap stepup transformer I was using as far as I can. http://www.affordable-solar.com/store/s ... er-Charger Note, don't drop this one on your foot as I did. Ow!
The feature set is amazing - you can sell back to the grid, simply shave off peak amp draw from the grid to avoid surcharges, have it "help out" a generator it's using for charging when there are peak loads, all manner of fancy stuff like that - full auto switchover at power zero crossings - the ultimate UPS. Their solar controllers "impedance match" panels to the battery and get about 20-30% more power than direct wiring.
And, I got a cable on order to make my own car charger that will have proportional output - eg I can set it to just use up *extra* power, not a fixed load...maybe I can get it to talk on the XanBus (really a CAN Bus) to do that automatically - but there are a couple of ways, we'll see how it comes out. Man, that connector aint' cheap - $300 bucks roughly for it and 8 meters of #8 wire with shipping. So, yet another use for the PIC board perhaps.
Meanwhile, since I got it charged yesterday, time to go out and buy all those little electrical gizzies I forgot, like things to put in the knockouts for the boxes here, and get to wiring up all the new stuff.