Electric Vehicles (Part One)

[norvman]

This is way cool guys...

[DrZarkloff]

@norvman Thanks. It was a lot of fun hanging out with Steve.

[gatorfanaticv2]

steves my uncle, hes been doin this since 1990

i didnt even know he was the grandfather of it all

[DrZarkloff]

Cool! My brother and I had a great time hanging around with him that day.

[sockosockosocko]

ev's meet my needs

[DrZarkloff]

Great! I have to work on getting an EV that will let me drive over 50 miles per day.

[Aussie50]

As ashamed as I am to admit this, I'm actually partial to Ev's for short range shopping trips etc..

They make a good toy for quick short trips, but in Australia theirs too much open space to chew up your battery power.

I have been saving old Danfoss VLT drives from the scrap bin with the intention of getting one working and use it to power a small car via a 3 phase motor

[HotAsLightning]

a teriffic concept! start a business.

[hackfreehvac]

Have you seen the documentary, "Who killed the electric car"?

[HotAsLightning]

No, what about it?

[hackfreehvac]

In the mid 1990's Chevy leased out a few hundred all electric cars built on the Saturn line. I think they were in California. They worked fine too. When the 2 yr lease was up they REFUSED to let anyone release them or buy the cars and crushed all but one, which they kept for a museum. Goes to show you that SOMEONE didn't want the car to be popular in the publics hands. Someone PAID someone to scrap that idea. And F**K GM for allowing it! :(

[takemypot]

@hackfreehvac all about greed! all electric=gas companies broke ass muthafuckas

[MarkFromHawaii]

Do a search for PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle).  That may be the way to go where gasoline prices are high (they're high everywhere right?) and electric rates are still relatively low. There are companies out there that will convert standard hybrids like the Prius into a PHEV by retrofitting the batteries to Lithium Ion packs and a NEMA plug-in charger.

[DrZarkloff]

Thanks. I'll check that out.

[hdyudu]

i am also sick of outrageios gasoline and diesal prices it also more apalling when the oil companys like exxon brageg about getting high profits than go in front of national television and trys to cover up thar greed

with those dorky and sicking execueses that we have

all heard for riseing the prices such as we do have the as munch matareals to make as munch oil to down gasoline prices and blah blaw than bring in oil from parts of the world that we are at war with that bring prices

higher.

[DrZarkloff]

I hope the gas prices go up to $100 per gallon. That will force us to go with alternative fuels faster.

[hdyudu]

in a blink of an eye it will

[25HNA6]

Batteries in electric cars can be very dangerous.

[DrZarkloff]

True. Gasoline can be dangerous, too.

[25HNA6]

Diesel is a safe fuel and it does not explode as easily as you may think it does. And it does not harm the environment as much as you think it does. All of those big clouds of exaust that come out of trucks is just carbon. Plus diesel fuel is getting cleaner.

[hdyudu]

it also uses for heating homes in a blend call

mix diesel #2 home heating oil aka as number

two home heating oil or just heating oil in a cental heating and cooling furnace that fired by heating oil.

[mechanicwarrior20]

Sweet DC elctric motors have incredible starting torque way better than any gas engine

[DrZarkloff]

They sure will give you the acceleration that you need to get into traffic.

[Odziz]

You could use the electric power steering they have on the Suzuki Wagon R

[DrZarkloff]

Possibly. I'd have to check it out.

[itscool1968]

jim is that monator a compaq or hp?

[DrZarkloff]

It's a Samsung.