To understand where I’m going, you needs to know I’m currently buying an electric car. 100% electric, not an hybrid. And you would be surprised by the amount of “what??” I used while learning about EV (electric vehicle).
And to bring hear differences to Cybertronians wasn’t hard, because they certainly don’t use fossil fuel!
Are you aware EV don’t have a radiator? They don’t overheat! They produce so little heat, in fact, a heat pump or a resistor (like a toaster) is required to heat the passengers!
Which to bring to the second difference: no grill! No need of a radiator means no need for air to reach the inside of the hood.
The third one, they’re soooooo silent. All you hear is the small rocks being moved around by the tires. It’s a bit scary when they drive right by you and you don’t realize a car is coming before its right next to you. So silent, in fact, the car comes with a chime gently telling you the motor is on. Because there’s no starting noise, no “vroooom”, nothing. Noise-wise, there’s no difference between off and on.
I wouldn’t be surprised they don’t have breaks. No, that’s not a typo. It’s quite technical, but some EV have such efficient system, people had breaks problem… Because they never use them.
Oh, and if you’re a fan of the stick shift, well, sorry… There’s no transmission in an EV. From 0 km/h to cruising on the highway, no need to change a gear. EV comes only with D R N P.
As for the torque and the power, I tried the Hyundai Ionic. Oh my! There’s power in that one, something I wasn’t expecting at all! I’ve always think they were sluggish. They’re definitively not!
Knowing Cybertronians uses a fuel thousand times more efficient than gasoline, it it’s not hard to imagine they share a lot of those differences I just mentioned. In my mind, it makes them more aliens. Can you imagine Optimus moving around almost perfectly silent?
Doesn’t that mean that it’s possible that those who took Earth vehicle modes might only be REPLICATING the car noises? Not only that, those sorts of noises that come with a gas-fueled engine/transmission may in fact mean something entirely different to a mechanical species that does not generate them as a part of natural movement? For example, fanfiction talked about “engine reving” all the time in different contexts, but if your engine doesn’t need to make that sound in alt mode, what does it MEAN when you DO make that sound? O.o
@warlordenfilade, @cavalierconvoy, and whoever else knows more about cars and has thought more about Cybertronian anatomy: THOUGHTS? I don’t regularly put enough thought or research in to give really educated input.
Clearly the engine rev “raring to go” sound at the start of a race means something incredibly suggestive on Cybertron.
So what you’re telling me is that Cybertronians probably say “vroom vroom” out loud whenever they want to drive around undercover
Spidereuropa Pininfarina, 1981. FCA Heritage will launch their "Reloaded by creators"program at the Rétromobile show in Paris. Among the restored classics on offer, the Spidereuropa represents the final act of the original 124 Sport Spider, one of the longest-lived Fiat cars built in the last century. Designed by Pininfarina in 1966 and produced until 1985, the 124 Spider lived a double life between Europe and the United States – from 1975 it was produced only for the US market. It returned to Europe in 1982, when Pininfarina launched the Spidereuropa. This example was one of the first European cars, and only drove 10,000 kilometres
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