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Posted on 03/05/2011 6:30:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
This is reminiscent of those fancy new energy saving LED traffic lights being useless because they get covered up by snow and ice ..... they put out too little heat to melt snow and ice
Keep an eye out on the side of the road.
And a hefty bank account as well (approx $16K) when the battery pack needs replacing!
I'd much rather have an old beetle!
The only way that any electric car will succeed is when the source of power is one of Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi’s nickel-hydrogen 14.7KW fusion generators.
I was thinking a propane camping stove
Hey, if the floor vents were wide open you could at least toast your feet and any stale french fries left under from your last trip to Wendy's McBurgerKing.
GM will want to keep the federal ownership position as they foist this gas-assisted electric cart on the public. They know they will need sovereign immunity protection after the first drivers freeze to death in their stranded Volts.
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Also will keep you toasty in the winter.
The laws of physics can be ignored but the consequences remain.The energy stored in any battery just isn't enough,or economical,or practical.Golfcarts and forklifts,yes.Cars,NO.
As batteries age their capacity decreases, 2 years from now that 30 mile range could be 20 and five years from now when the battery pack needs replaced what is that going to cost you? Another $20,000? Stupid idea that only stupid people will buy.
I remember those days I also remember when I put it under a Semi and it left a mark.
If someone in the tropics (like Panama) were nutty enough to buy this expensive garbage, and considering the hot summers in the States, what about the air-conditioning? I bet that wouldn’t work either. If no air-conditioning, it is not saleable at any price.
LOL! How I remember that! I had a ‘63 Beetle back when I was in college.
Well not exactly on the road.
I don't think there will be any high school kids lusting for an antique 2011 Chevy Volt to restore to mint condition...
Inefficient. There are two common ways to heat an area: air convection and infrared light.
Air convection, as they use here, takes a lot of energy, because air is not a particularly good conductor of heat, so you have to use a very hot source, which takes a lot of energy, and circulate the air with a fan, which takes even more energy.
A much better idea would be to use infrared light. While it wouldn’t directly heat the air, it would heat everything that the light shined on directly. By positioning just a few lights around the cab, the invisible light would hit all contact surfaces. In turn, all that surface area warms the air.
Though it doesn’t exist as such right now, an IR car cab heater would look like pencil thick, foot long white ceramic rods, running on either side of the interior of the car roof in reflector wells just a little bit larger than the rods. They would be covered by a clear, heat resistant plastic, to prevent burns caused by accidentally brushing against the rods.
Even when it was very cold out, the invisible IR light would quickly make the interior warm, but with a fraction of the electricity needed for air convection heating.
I kept trying to convince the girls in my high school to go to the parking lot during study hall to take a nap with me on the bed of our old camperwagon. No such luck. “Why are you taking off your clothes if all you want to do is take a nap?” It didn’t help that we were still in the school lobby.
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