I would take water flavor over piss flavor, even if the latter is the correct flavor.

Water doesn't need to be thrown shade like this. Water is delicious and refreshing. The average lager tastes like piss, not water.

Generally an engine will encounter issues with reciprocating weight and getting enough fuel and air before it starts seeing issues with reaching the speed of the flame front. Racing engines have different requirements than road engines that allow different construction methods to reach higher RPM.

They can use lighter and possibly more expensive internals. This is bad for road engines because they have a lower lifetime and are more expensive to fix, but fine for racing cause they rebuild engines often. There's also more advanced valves operated pneumatically or electrically that maximize their open duration and minimize the time it takes to open or close them. Again these are more expensive to maintain, which is fine for racing but bad for road vehicles.

ELI5 summary: throwing more money at specific engine components can increase redline, but doing so is bad for regular car engines due to maintenance costs and reliability

I'm not familiar with that particular engine, but an example of a road diesel engine that has a redline above 5k RPM is the Mercedes OM606. It has dual overhead cams and pistons with a larger bore than stroke, which isn't the norm for diesels.

Neither team makes 100% sense when viewed as a whole. That's why this two party system is so shit.

It's gotten stupid, and I've seen the same amounts for delivery fees.

To be honest, I'd fully believe it's just greed and the store is pocketing most, if not all, of that five bucks. But I don't know for sure, obviously.

For what it's worth, I did also make minimum wage hourly. It wasn't that sort of situation where I got less hourly because tips. 7+ years ago, me making ~$16/hour after tips and before gas and vehicle maintenance was actually pretty decent for a college student where I lived. Those 8-9 hour weekend closing shifts where I'd go home with $130 in my pocket were pretty nice.

I can only speak from my own experience, and I worked as a driver from about May 2011 to July 2015 at Papa John's.

At the time, our delivery fee was $2, and I got $1 per delivery flat for mileage. So the answer is "partly". The boxes we used at the time had the whole "the delivery fee isn't paid out to the driver, so please tip" thing, but it wasn't 100% true. I don't know how it's changed since.

I got 100% of the tip, minus any I tipped out to the in store workers.

I feel like they could do a lot better than Chevy Bolts for that. Mach-e's or something. And to be honest I think it really depends on if corporate is freely allocating these cars to stores, or if they're gonna charge the stores/drivers somehow to use them. I know the Papa John's franchise I worked for wouldn't take the cars unless they were free.

The store I worked for had a stupid large area, and even on the worst days, I don't think I ever put more than 80 miles on during an 8 hour shift. Get some cars with ~200 mile range, plug em in overnight and when a driver clocks out, and you're good.

Tbh as someone who used to deliver pizzas, I'd take anything, EV or not, to avoid putting hundreds of miles a week on my own car.