Ping!
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I could see commuting in that. I would have to keep the gas burner for interstate travel, of course...
Wow these things are great! I like the way they run off of solar power and free up all that gas. Hey, wait a minute, you have to charge the batteries using coal or oil-fired power plants. Hmmmm nevermind
I guess this sort of thing is the future, but I’m sure going to be miss the majestic roar of a 350 small block chevy.
Is this the one with the Lithium batteries? Quite a number of them too, if I recall correctly.
p.s. No “big” name would be caught dead on O’Reilly (the Hollywood moonbats are so original) and yet, he manages to capture the lion’s share, every single night.
Ok, but what class does it race in under SCCA autocross rules? And how well does it do?
“CO2 n/a”
Yeah, no CO2 in our electricity (from our coal-fired power plant)...
okay, from the top:
1. There are O2 emissions, unless the electrical power comes from nukes or wind. If it comes from nukes, then you’ve got strip mining and all that goes with uranium production, along with storing spent nuke waste. Wind power is, percentage-wise, negligible ‘cause it’s so inefficient.
2. The manufacturing of batteries is very hard on the environment, and the replacement of the batteries causes a decision to scrap the car far sooner than its diesel counterparts.
3. Charging batteries takes time. To charge a 100AH to 80% in 1 minute with a 220v connection, you’d need around 4800 amps. You’d need 480 amps for a 10-minute 80% charge. That would mean that a “filling” station would probably pull 10MW or more — the average power generation station produces around 500 to 2000 MW.
4. Your electric car flips upside down. The batteries are normally under the passenger’s compartment. Now would be a great time to discover prayer, and pray that the contents of the batteries don’t leak out on you, or that the electricity doesn’t catch something on fire.
BTW, it’s tough to screw up a new Lotus, no matter what the drive train. There are more than a few people putting together replicas of the Lotus 7 (aka “Caterham” or “Clubman”) using forklift electrical components.
Good news on the alternatives to gasoline. Now if they could just make one affordable to us middle-class folks that didn’t look like it’s *ss had been cut off we’d be in business!
248bhp? Not bad. If anyone has a hundred grand they don’t need, please let me know.
The price of these electrical vehicle is outrageous.The only other vehicle I would be able to afford would be a bicycle.Especially if the Dummy-craps get back into power.
Acceleration 0-60mph: 4sec
My, my, my...
Does it have enough reserve electric power for the ultra powerful speakers that simulates a Ferrari throaty snarl upon acceleration?
Whiners will whine if all it does is whine.
I think we’ve just found the next car for Al Gore’s kid to drive for
his next encounter with the police.
(And I’m not knocking the kid...he obviously has a problem.
If Al and Tipper were really concerned about “saving the earth”,
they’d call the “Intervention” folks at A&E channel and volunteer
to get their kid some help.)
Could Slot Cars be in NASCAR’S future?
The answer is, any thing is possible for the new dictator running the empire...
Ping me when the make a pickup truck version. ;~))
Can you put baseball cards in the spokes?