Posted on 09/26/2008 9:04:23 PM PDT by Reaganesque
September 24, 2008 Last week saw the one year anniversary of SSC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma s Ulimate Aero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AERO becoming the fastest production car in the world at 256.18 mph, pushing past marks set by Koenigseggs CCR and Bugattis Veyron. Its the first time the top speed record has stood for a whole year since McLarens F1 held it for seven years with 386.4 kmh (240.1mph). Now comes news that an Ultimate Aero EV (Electric Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle ) is in development. A 500 bhp EV is planned for late 2009 and a 1000 bhp 4WD EV is also under consideration. Now heres the kicker the press statement reads: The drive train under development will feature a revolutionary power source allowing for extended time between charging intervals with the possibility of several years between charging.
The anniversary date was September 13 to be exact, but its the prospect of the first 100% Green Supercar How-to-Import-Your-Own-Supercar that is interesting. Engineering details are yet undisclosed but SSC expects to roll out its first prototype in February 2009. As for the revolutionary drive train, well, we have no idea what is planned and
well suspend disbelief in respect of the companys proven ability to do exactly what it has said it will do in the past. A track record as good as SSCs gives this otherwise ridiculous claim some credibility, though itll need to be pretty special to run a few years between charges maybe its a micro-nuclear powerplant,
"I think we can do it faster, leaner and cleaner than any other manufacturer" says Jerod Shelby, SSC Founder.
Consistent with its company philosophy of being the benchmark, SSC plans next to break the record for the fastest electric car Innovation-At-Big-Companies Dec-07 in the world.
Unfortunately, the driver of the SSC in that record run died a couple months ago in an ultralight test. I got to the airport about 30 minutes later.
Actually meant “ultralight crash”. Chuck Bigelow, 71, was a well-liked man.
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Several years between charges — reminds me of the Segway. Lotta hype, will it deliver? Only their barber knows for sure.
If I had a dollar for every projected new scientific breakthrough that was just around the corner, that never materialized, I’d have two or three dollars... well maybe twenty.
It would be nice. I’m looking forward to the February revelation that probably won’t come. LOL
Okay maybe it will.
you know the segway gets a bad rap, but I sort of thought they might build the first widely available robot off of its platform...
The car is VERY cool.
And the driver/pilot must have been an incredible man to be so active on the cutting edge into his 70’s ...Da*mn I should be so lucky !
I am skeptical. Years between charges is only part of the issue since it doesn’t say how many miles between charges. I am not aware of any current battery technology in which batteries can hold a charge for that long even without being used. Battery development tends to be incremental and to come up with such a dramatically advanced battery out of the blue is questionable.
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