1963 Chrysler turbine. Only 50 were built. My Dad drove one for a week-end.
Posted on 06/28/2006 11:20:15 AM PDT by aculeus
Bingo. People don't understand basic physics.
What a bargin "The Roadster will be able to drive about 250 miles on a single three-hour charge"...my Yukon travels 450 miles on a 15 minute fill-up...
They will build this so the Hollywood celebrity types will be able to tool around and be even more smug - if that's possible - than before. I can see all the Ed Begley Jr. types buying into this. Gee, and where does the fuel come from to power the electric generators at the local PG&E?
Fools.
Seems that when they're overcharged or overdischarged, the lithium metal plates the anode which eventually leads to thermal runaway, which is what you're seeing in the pic you posted.
Most (responsible) manufacturers will put a protection circuit into the battery to monitor voltage to make sure it doesn't go above 4.26v/cell. Irresponsible manufacturers save money by eliminating the protection circuit. So, if you ever wondered why the OEM battery costs $50 and the third-party replacement costs $30, this is why.
They also have a limited lifespan of about two years, regardless of usage.
That is a brilliant solution to the problem of tailgating!
I saw the previews to this fim last night ...it had pics of the bad guy: Condi Rice and GW Bush...looks like Michael Moore wanna be
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Fighting the power over electric cars
By Glenn Whipp, Film Critic
Befitting its title, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" begins with a funeral (a mock one, but held at a real cemetery) and ends with an inquiry, one that implicates oil companies, auto manufacturers, the federal government, the California Air Resources Board and, yes, even you and me for the murder of an automobile that would be nice to have parked in your garage in these gas-gouging days.
There were several makes of electric cars, but Chris Paine's trenchant documentary focuses primarily on General Motors' EV1.
Launched in 1996, the car was fast and quiet, ran without exhaust, required no gas or oil changes and was so popular dealers kept a waiting list with tens of thousands of names.
But then GM took the cars off the road, recalling all the EV1s, which had been leased to the owners — including Hollywood A-listers like Mel Gibson (who is interviewed here in his full-on, wild-eyed "Apocalypto" glory) — without the option to buy. Paine himself drove an EV1, and like most of his brethren, really wanted to keep the car. GM didn't offer him the choice. So he decided to learn why, and "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is the result.
Paine's movie manages to entertain and infuriate, sometimes simultaneously, as he investigates the reasons why a U.S. automaker — one with some serious problems — would invest in a product only to sabotage it at every turn. GM created the EV1 as an answer to California's Zero Emissions Mandate, created in 1990, which required 2 percent of new vehicles sold in the state to be emission-free by 1998, 10 percent by 2003.
As Al Gore eloquently explained in "An Inconvenient Truth," crisis can be a powerful incentive to change and create. But we live in a world where industry prefers the status quo, with a circle-the- wagons, short-term mentality that fights change in the face of all reason. To watch flunkies for oil companies and automakers offer bald lies about the electric vehicle program is to observe a corporate climate in denial, a condition that will remain the same until consumers vote with their pocketbooks.
And while Paine thoroughly and diligently damns all parties concerned, the most incredible footage comes courtesy of PBS's folksy TV personality Huell Howser, who stumbled onto a row of shiny electric cars while taping an innocuous a segment about a junkyard that shreds old vehicles. Howser can't understand why these cars are being destroyed. The junk man seems equally at a loss.
Of course, you'll learn the answer after watching this riveting piece of investigation, but you won't feel any better for the knowledge. You'd think GM would feel the same way, too, but somehow I doubt it. It's always somebody else's fault, even when your market share has slid into the toilet, you're bleeding red ink and you're spending more time finding new ways to lay off employees than devising innovative ways to build cars for the 21st century.
Little Suzy!!!
FWIW I didn't consider these guys a hair band. Modern Day Cowboy came out and sounded a lot different than what I consider hair bands like White Lion/Europe/Winger
Talk is cheap. Battery powered cars never are.
This newfangled "electricity" will never catch on...everybody knows it takes three times as much energy to create electricity than the amount of energy in that electricity.[/sarc]
Sure would suck to have to go cross-country in it.
Those would be impressive numbers all right, but I'd sort of like to see a working prototype pull them off. But the Ariel Atom is an incredible little machine. Saves weight on windshield wipers by not having a windshield. Think of it as a 300-hp turbocharged go-kart. Yow-ZUH!
''I'm not the only person that would like to buy a car that's beautiful and fun to drive but also remain on the moral high ground,''
Make that moral high HORSE.
Hey hey hey, you can attack Rat, Twisted Sister and even GWAR, but lay off Tesla...
1963 Chrysler turbine. Only 50 were built. My Dad drove one for a week-end.
Still stuck on old technology, I see...
Nope.
I just picked up a Sunpentown portable 10000 btu heat pump for $364. It runs at 660 J/s (660 watts) which is equal to just 0.885 horsepower. You could get by with half that for air-conditioning the interior of a car.
Easy for an electric.
"V-Dub here in full effect with Tre...and his ride."
"It looks like it could fly."
"What time is it?"
"I dunno..."
"Time...to unpimp ze auto!"
[mash!...fwwwwwwip!...crash!]
"Oh, schnapp!!"
See blacklightpower.com
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