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Photo: 230 mph, 8-Wheeled Electric Car May be On Sale Soon
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| Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Posted on 12/30/2008 11:32:29 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: zot; SeraphimApprentice
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:34:30 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead (3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87))
To: Nightshift
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:34:36 AM PST
by
tutstar
(Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
To: JoeProBono
I wonder if they realize batteries have about 1/11 the energy storage of a gallon of gasoline. Maybe that’s why the eight wheels?
Why exactly does it need eight wheels?
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:34:57 AM PST
by
Tarpon
(America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
To: JoeProBono
yeah, that ought to fit into a parking space at Best Buy....
Wake me when there is an electric car which makes sense. I’ll be happy to buy one when I don’t have to pay for a lifetimes worth of gas in advance in the purchase price.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:36:01 AM PST
by
bpjam
(GOP is 3 - 0 in elections after Nov 4th. You Can Smell the Rally !!!)
To: bpjam
Electic bills are up too.
And if everyone has to charge up the car every day, they will go up even higher.
But we will be “off” gasoline, except for our planes, and trucks, and police cars, etc etc.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:37:27 AM PST
by
weegee
("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:38:39 AM PST
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: JoeProBono
Traditionally, more rolling resistance would be a bad thing, but not if each of the wheels has its own 60 KW electric motor. 8 x 60,000W = 644 horsepower. Me likey.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:38:39 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
To: JoeProBono
tri-color paint with spinners and you have the pimp@ss ride from hell....this is a ghetto machine all the way, and it takes alot longer to steal 8 wheels
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:39:05 AM PST
by
sfvgto
(inuendo and out the other)
To: JoeProBono
Hmmm. Sounds like a great care to be late in!
And, it’s a bargain. A new Bentley costs somewhere around $350,000.00(and it’s only got FOUR wheels).
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:39:15 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: JoeProBono
Gerry Anderson Motors presents the "Life Imitating Art" line up:
To: JoeProBono
If I use the Purple Fog under-the-car-lights, will it run the batteries down? Also, Jowe, I won’t get no respeckt in da hood if my ride you know like HUMS.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:39:43 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
(Featured Inaugural Guest-Marxist Muslim Church-burner from Kenya and BHO's pal, Raile Odinga.)
To: Tarpon
All that weight from the batteries no doubt....
To: Tarpon
The goal of the team building the car at Keio University is to beat the world EV speed record, currently set at 400 mph.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:40:23 AM PST
by
Schnucki
To: Schnucki
Wouldn’t eight wheels hamper that goal?
One of the first things you learn in engineering school — Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:42:20 AM PST
by
Tarpon
(America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
To: JoeProBono
That thing looks like it was inspired by the 1960’s Citreon.
Especially the roofline.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:42:22 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
To: Schnucki
And we’re making cars that parallel park for us, go figure ...
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:43:10 AM PST
by
Scythian
To: Tarpon
:)
Traditionally, more rolling resistance would be a bad thing, but not if each of the wheels has its own 60 KW electric motor.
Sometimes it's fun to see what can be done!
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:44:06 AM PST
by
Schnucki
To: Tarpon
Traditionally, more rolling resistance would be a bad thing, but not if each of the wheels has its own 60 KW electric motor. It pays to read the article.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:44:12 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: JoeProBono
The car that saved Detroit.
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:46:12 AM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(Grace = unmerited favor; Mercy = punishment withheld)
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