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Electric cars: going somewhere fast
I put up a post in March of 2007 titled Electric cars: Going nowhere fast. It contained photos of electric cars available at the time. Erik Hoffner sent me this link in an email the other day. Coincidentally I ran across this same clip while channel surfing on TV that same night.
Conversions may outstrip production cars in the not too distant future, if somebody out there would just give us the battery we need at prices that we can afford. I’ve got my eye on this company.
My real name is Russ Finley. I live in Seattle, married with children. Suffice it to say that although I am trained and educated as an engineer, my passion is nature. I very much want my grandchildren to live on a planet where lions, tigers, and bears have not joined the long and growing list of creatures that used to be. In an attempt to minimize the workload on Grist editors responsible for turning my submissions into intelligible articles, I will also be posting on a seperate blog called Biodiversivist, which will contain articles in addition to those submitted to Grist.
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Jay Alt Posted 6:21 am
23 Feb 2009
7.89 s @ 168 MPH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVv0NVLFPig
http://www.killacycle.com/
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biodiversivist Posted 10:32 am
23 Feb 2009
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/11/10/213411/10
I just loved watching that Datsun eat every Corvette and Maserati that came along.
This demonstrates for all to see the torque advantage of electric motors. Torque translates into acceleration, the measure many use to define a car's worth, sad to say.
I'm sure they will kick these electric race cars off into their own class as soon as there is more than one of them.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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