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1 posted on 03/14/2008 10:02:34 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick

2 posted on 03/14/2008 10:03:10 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)

To: CarrotAndStick

3 posted on 03/14/2008 10:18:48 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)

To: CarrotAndStick

LOOKS VAGUELY FAMILIAR..................

4 posted on 03/14/2008 10:19:52 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)

To: CarrotAndStick

On December 19, 2005, the Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi tested this vehicle in a 10-minute ride to the Parliament.

P.M.Koizumi: "Ah so! 10 minutes, and honorabre car need 10-hour recharge arready!"

5 posted on 03/14/2008 10:41:50 AM PDT by hellbender

To: CarrotAndStick

What I find interesting about electric cars is once they lick the battery storage problem, an electric car could literally blow the doors off a gasoline-powered car for these reasons:

1. Electric motors have HUGE torque in a standing start, which means very strong acceleration.
2. Because electric motors don't vary in output when altitude changes, that means performance loss is minimal at high altitude for an electric car. In fact, it's likely that within 15-20 years an electric sports car will hold the record for the fastest Pike's Peak hill climb.
3. Improving technology will soon have electric cars with each wheel individually driven by its own electric motor. That could make it possible for extreme driving control, since by controlling the motor driving each wheel with special computers we could have the mechanical equivalent of four-wheel drive with limited slip/locking differentials, traction control, stability control and anti-locking braking.

8 posted on 03/14/2008 9:59:05 PM PDT by RayChuang88

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