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SDSU Students Create Sporty Hybrid Vehicle

Posted by michael on from the rack-and-peanut-steering dept.

Nevyan writes "SDSU Engineering students working in conjunction with real life designers create an electric hybrid vehicle that actually...well.. looks cool for all the right reasons. Participant in the Tour de Sol. I happened to see this vehicle on campus at SDSU and I want to buy one so badly." Njaneer.com has more information and photos - here's one to give you an idea of the size.

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  1. The irony by pheph · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Right next to the picture of a tiny 'high performance' car that probably wouldn't withstand the impact of the cone its steering around is a link entitled 'SDSU College of Engineering suffers a tremendous loss... which details a professor who recently died in an auto accident.

  2. SD - In brief by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wheat, Corn, Buffalo, ammunition, firearms, cattle, dinosaur bones.

    South Dakota used to have 150 Minuteman missile silos, and B-52s. Now it has a bunch of B-1Bs

    There are 700,000 people there, 1 Representative, 2 Senators, 2 freeways, Mount Rushmore and the Corn Palace.

  3. car crash was in Toyota RAV-4, not L3 Hybrid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, it looks like SDSU faculty member Larry Thompson was not driving the L3 Hybrid when he crashed...

    From http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/
    ...
    Thomps on was on his way home after dining with friends from his doctoral days at UC Berkeley when he lost control of his Toyota Rav4 on a curve of Oak Grove Road, the California Highway Patrol said. The vehicle plummeted about 300 feet into a meadow. Investigators believe Thompson was crawling toward the embankment when he died, a CHP officer said.

    Both Thompson's wife and [Bruce Westermo] said Thompson helped the department recover from a shooting by a disgruntled graduate student in 1996 that left three engineering professors dead.

    Thompson joined the SDSU staff in 1981 after spending four years as a senior scientist at General Atomics. He earned a doctorate in material science and engineering from UC Berkley in 1978. Most recently he was working with graduate students to develop coatings for metallic materials that could determine any strain in the metal.
    ...

  4. Re:get some goat! by andrea_dworkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How dare you appropriate my sexual organ for your trollish patriarchal acronym! Your sig is cool though.

  5. Re:get some goat! by andrea_dworkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You fucking rapist. When the Matriarchy takes over, I will personally remove your penis.