On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:31:20 +0100, Doctor Drivel wrote (in article ):
Another classic.
Fort Knox must be a virtual environment with branches worldwide. Perhaps it's a franchise
Bit like colour telly then: way too expensive ever to make the mass market :-)
It is if you think Mars is just over 250 miles away. Which loonie website have you been reading now?
Most people are happy driving about 500 miles in a day. Many modern cars will do this on one tank - others can be refuelled in minutes. The ability to re-charge electric cars in the same time is pie in the sky.
Read the article in the first post:
"He wanted something that was fast but still got good mileage. He quickly learned that high performance and fuel efficiency are mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to internal combustion engines. So he started researching alternative technologies and soon realized it was actually possible for an electric car to combine zip and efficiency. The problem: Nobody was making one."
It goes on....
"The EV1, General Motors' electric car, had failed, in part because it was expensive and poorly marketed. Most crippling, though, was the underperformance of the original lead-acid batteries and even the second-gen nickel metal hydride cells. Consumers wanted a vehicle that had a range greater than the EV1's (at best) 130 miles. The common wisdom was that batteries just weren't there yet.
But what did Detroit know about batteries? Eberhard had squeezed 20 hours of run time out of the little power pack on his eBook. Battery efficiency was an obsession among computer engineers, who were extracting more power from ever-smaller cells with each generation of laptops. GM seemed oblivious to the lessons emerging from the electronics industry. Eberhard began to think that if anybody was going to build a viable electric car, it would be a Silicon Valley engineer. "
And what's more lots of publicity in the quality motoring press. If such a major breakthrough existed.
"nightjar .uk.com>"
Yep.
Nonsense. That was probably a worse case scenario. Modern generating equipment, transmissions, localised power stations, modern batteries in cars etc, proves that is total balls.
They are? That's new to me.
It still wastes 75% of the energy in the tank. No change there. Despite being cleaner than the 1960s cars they still pollute like hell. Look at the big picture for once.
Yep. Colour telly will never catch on, neither will personal computers.
He does want to go to Mars. Amazing. With his loafers on too.
It would be perfectly possible to recover the kinetic energy lost in braking with a conventional IC car - after all buses do it. It's a question of economics. True it's probably cheaper in an electric car by using the motors as generators, but they will still have conventional brakes.
Richard Cranium here thinks there is a quality motoring press. Thee is no such thing, as they are bought out by the big auto companies who hold them to ransom over advertising.
He is obviously hot a bothered. The care they give him is substandard that is for sure. He should be out in his loafers.
That might be a good point to remind people what Adam (aka IMM, aka Drivel) said in May 2000 [1]:
Well, six years later...
[1]
Charging stations that would used capacitors charged overnight.
Richard Cranium, the Stirluing is an external combustion engine (EC), not internal combustion (IC).
Best you get out with those loafers on.
I hope he cleans the doggy doos off his loafer before he goes out.
posts. Fabulous Keep it Nerdy. Keep it up.
Richard Cranium, the Prius has regen brakes and mechanical as backup. The problem in California is that the discs rust as the mechanic brakes never operate. I slam mine on occasionally to make sure they operate.
Now make sure the doggy doos is off your loafers before you go out.
TMBSNMOTW "wisdom" WWIWNPF.
Point me to a capacitor that can hold 50kWh (that's 180MJ if it helps).
Next he'll be claiming to have a 2ft long penis...
So you charge one battery slowly to charge another fast? Very sound engineering...
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