Only one EV charger at home?!

Some diesels have a much smaller engine than a traditional diesel. I had one like that, an Opel Corsa. The motor had only 1248 cubic centimetres of displacement (yet rated at 70KW power). And a turbo. Thus at low rpm the engine had little torque, something that I noticed in the mountains. In some steep places, even in 1st gear it had no acceleration.

In the highway, that car had much better acceleration than my current gasoline Opel Corsa (66KW, no turbo, 1398 cc)

I was really styling, connecting to a BBS with 300 baud over an acoustic coupler...

The '51 Chev would have been better off with cables. It was obvious the master cylinder had been bolted to the frame before the body was put on. There was a small access port with a cover under the rug on the drivers side but getting the assembly out to replace the seal was a miserable job.

Thats a mid range car!

Small is 600 cc!

And a turbo. Thus at low rpm

But early turbodiesels had a very narrow power band. I drove a two lire Ford Mondeo turbodiesl as a hire once. Nothing under 2000rpm Nothing over 4000 rpm. Horrid car. Because my car has twin turbos, the main turbo comes in around 1200rpm and the second at around 3000. Very smooth if a little laggy.,

That came a little later for me.

Then we moved into selling UUCP connections to the internet (such as it was) for mail and news .

The rule of thumb for semis is to use the same gear going up or down. If you had to shift down enough to climb the grade at 28 mph there is probably a good reason you only want to go down the other side at 28 mph if you don't have a jake brake.

That simplistically assumes the same slope on each side.

My smallest bikes are 650 cc.... One is a thumper and not designed for speed but the V-Strom goes as fast as I need to go.

I'd been on Delphi with a dialup connection that sort of had an internet connection.

They sold the business and it became a little more professional. They even had a NNTP server of sorts but individual.net at the Freie Universitat Berlin worked a lot better. It was free then but when it went to 10 Euros a year I kept it. The local ISP dropped usenet eventually because of the resources required to support it.

Wow.

No, that you are going down using the same road :-D

Remember: diesel.

For a diesel, that's small.

For a diesel, 0.3cc is small

That's not the other side.

That is small. I spent some of my youth fussing with a 0.82 diesel engine (Cox .049 Babe Bee). Cox did make a .020 (.33cc) Pee Wee but I never had one.

Or you get a little surprise. I-40 gradually climbs to Flagstaff AZ, which is just shy of 7000'. Turn onto I-17 and drops to Camp Verde at 3100' in

Babe bee strictly a glowplug engine, which isn't quite a diesel as it relies on methanol ignited against a hot catalyst of platinum wire The diesels ran on paraffin and ether and castor oil

I had a pee wee and several babe bees. And an AMCO 35 and a PAW 19...and a few others that came my way.

My 1954 Ford Prefect (the last of the 'humpy-backed' style of body) had rod brakes. The brake pads were expanded by the rod pulling tapered wedges. Provided all the linkages and wedges were lubricated and kept free of dirt, for the sort of speed I drove the car (my cruising speed was 42mph!), the braking was excellent.

I drove a 1936 Standard 14 on one occasion and during a 3 point turn I collided with a parked car. This was because all the drum brakes had leading edge shoes, consequently there was next to no braking when reversing.