Maybe Lead Acid batteries are still the best way to go. The 1900's Detroit Electric car used Lead Acid batts and had a range of ~ 50 mi.
My, how technology has improved over the last 100 years.
Posted on 02/18/2011 2:21:01 PM PST by Nachum
Adventurers try to trek across Australia all the time – but few attempt the journey in a wind-powered electric car. Two Germans, Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer, recently wrapped up an 18-day drive that took them 3,000 miles along the southern Australian coast in a vehicle that used the breeze to juice up its battery. The total electricity cost for the Wind Explorer vehicle came out to less than $15. In addition to an 8-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, the car is equipped with a kite system and a portable wind turbine with a 20-foot bamboo mast.
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It looks like a pedal car with a mast.
How much is one of those?
Let’s see them do cross-town Manhatten at night.
166.6666666666666 miles per day?
18 days to go 3000 miles?
What is that, 160 miles per day?
The article does not mention what incredible speeds they may have reached...
The article says it can go up to 50 mph. Yeah! In a hurricane! Or 50 mph for 5 minutes. Then the batteries are dead. But,,,, I’ll bet they had a good time doin’ it. So,,,,, kudos!
Let’s see ‘em two blocks in daylight in Detroit. LOL They’ll need a platoon of Marines to survive.
Might be tricky getting a 20’ mast under a freeway overpass. Wind powered cars could work on the Great Plains.
I’m supposed to want a car which doesn’t run on windless days???
I put this one with the other cool things I want for which I have no use:
A drag racing turbo charged funny car
The Space Shuttle
A super computer
A Dump Truck
A Tank
Last years playmate of year
Cheats isn’t that one of those orange extension cords hooked up to it lol.
Thanks to you, I have this image of us in pedal cars with whirly birds on our heads.
“18-day drive that took them 3,000”
This iron man feat took them less than 200 miles a day?...in a 450 lb ‘car’...really, that’s a ‘car’?
It would be about $5,000 for a battery like that.
Maybe Lead Acid batteries are still the best way to go. The 1900's Detroit Electric car used Lead Acid batts and had a range of ~ 50 mi.
My, how technology has improved over the last 100 years.
dolt is exactly what I meant.
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