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Empluse V14 engine
« on: June 04, 2012, 05:31:17 PM »
I don't know if I'm the only person who looks at the Empulse and thinks the silver battery brackets look like pistons from a gas engine. 

7 "pistons" on each side is more than a V8, more than a V12, it's a V14!    ;D
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Re: Empluse V14 engine
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2012, 06:42:11 PM »
I see more H-14 than V-14 : )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_engine

They also kind of remind me of all the triangle rotor-shaped decorations Mazda sprinkled over the RX-8.
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Re: Empluse V14 engine
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2012, 07:10:28 PM »
I had no idea such a thing as an "H" engine even existed!  That is one crazy engine design.  Another new thing learned today!
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Re: Empluse V14 engine
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2012, 08:15:35 PM »
In that configuration it would be an I-beam when viewed from the front, so I-14...
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