Wait, You Mean To Tell Me An EV With Solid Rocket Boosters Isn’t Realistic? COTD

One of my guilty pleasures is looking up whatever’s the hottest vaporware product. Honestly, just watch any Computer Clan video, and you’ll get your fix of all sorts of vaporware and scams. But potential automotive vaporware is the best, because it’s sometimes the craziest.

We sent an engineer to check out the bizarre Dreame EV that’s apparently being promoted by Steve Wozniak and Dwyane Wade. Oh yeah, it apparently has solid rocket boosters on it. Except, you know, they don’t make any sense. Erik Hancock:

Hilarious. Those nozzles look like the sort of things a kid draws – a mishmash of a bunch of different technologies they don’t understand but that look badass. Those nozzles are not from a rocket, but from a jet engine. They’ve got variable-geometry “turkey feathers” that suggest afterburners as well as the tailcone that is typically part of the turbine assembly – as opposed to an actual rocket that is just a plain nozzle with no central suspended assembly.

Todd Beauchamp points out just how ridiculous the claim of having SRBs is:

Soild Rocket Booster? As in you can’t refuel it?

A solid rocket booster (SRB) is a high-thrust, reliable propulsion system that uses solid propellant—typically a mixture of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum powder, and a binder—to provide primary lifting power during the first two minutes of flight. Unlike liquid engines, they cannot be throttled or shut down once ignited.

Can’t be shut down… Oh this keeps getting better and better…

JP15:

Yep, I caught that too, haha. So basically, they watched the Mythbusters JATO rocket car episodes and said, “yeah let’s do that but it also has AI”.

A rocket on a car that makes full power until its fuel is expended. What could go wrong?

TK-421:

So this is what ACME changed their name to?

Subsea_EV-VI:

For reference, this is what a 100kN thrust solid rocket motor looks like when firing:

Good luck getting that homologated.

Palmetto Ranger:

“Each car will learn about its owner…your car will talk to your toothbrush, your air fryer, your vacuum!”

This all sounds like a threat more than a sales pitch.

SoCoFoMoCo:

Isn’t this what Elmo said Tesla was going to do with the next Roadster? And he’s beat to the vaporware punch by Temu Dyson, tsk tsk.

Finally, Matt wrote a Morning Dump about GM cashing in on trucks. I love our readers. My 0.02 Cents:

Any chance that GM will be refunding consumers that bought higher priced vehicle due to the tariffs, I suspect people would be pleased to get a check back for a couple of grand or whatever. That way they can more easily afford to put gas in their new trucks…

Beto O’Kitty:

No you’re adorable. I’m a pedant.

MondialMatt:

No, you’re a comma shy. I’M a pedant!

Data:

Why is that M in I’m capitalized?

MondialMatt:

For EMPHASIS, dammit!

Fine: “I’m.”

Dammit.

TheDrunkenWrench:

It stands for Mondial.

Have a great evening, everyone!

Topshot graphic image: Autopian