But to get to 80 MPH you need at LEAST 1.21 Gigawatts!
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What they don't tell you is...
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Nuclear+Elephant
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They could only measure 0-60 because at 4 seconds, the li-ion batteries are all dead.
Re:What they don't tell you is...
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Illbay
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So if you don't run the car for at least the full 4 seconds every time, does it eventually only get up to about 30 mph because of that "battery memory" problem?
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100% of torque at 0 rpm.
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Anonymous Coward
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Good engine good.
80 mph in a Delorian
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atomic-penguin
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But if you went 80 mph you would travel back in time. Unless your flux capacitor was broken then you might travel into the future.
you mean rednecks and those technically savvy? yeah thats a huge group there;)
Re:Finally!
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Anonymous Coward
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Sorry for the troll.
Yay, I love watching 500 laps of people driving in a circle. Woo-hoo. I prefer rallying. If NASCAR cars had passengers, it'd go like this:
"Left. Straight. Left. Straight. Right. NO NO, I WAS KIDDING!"
Re:Another article...
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rmohr02
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Why are electric cars always so damned ugly?
Well, if you're the type of person who has "6,800 lithium-ion laptop batteries lying around", you probably don't concern yourself with how your car looks.
New Limited Edition Scotty Model
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However, with the single-gear Tzero's engine limited to just over 100 m.p.h. at 13,300 r.p.m.'s, it will never win an oval-track race against those supercars.
Unless of course you purchase the Scotty model, which comes with a guy in a red shirt (who surprisingly doesn't die) who rides shotgun, takes requests/orders from the driver to improve performance, whines about how the (di)lithium crystal batteries won't take the stress, then after a few tense seconds gets the car going 30 m.p.h. faster than it's rated to go.
I've always found that line voltage works better
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kfg
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By your definition, all cars are 'electrical' because they use energy from some electrostatic force. The only 'non-electric' car would be some kind of atomic car, or a wind car or something like that.
Of course not, that would be ridiculous. We keep ours in the living room.
Re:RTFA
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Anonymous Coward
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It has a towable gasoline generator. The thing could go forever. Don't even have to check the oil. Except on the generator, of course.
Re:Another article...
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Rew190
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Yeah, but dude... 200 grand a pop, here.
So like swap power packs - dude!
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Anonymous Coward
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So like with my RC cars when the juice runs out I swap to my alternate pack which is just finished being topped up...
Am I real stupid or something, how come they don't do the same thing with electric cars? What would it take to setup a consortium of power pack companies with enough stations to make it happen? Heck you could even just rent the packs hence lowering the initial price of the cars. Since the power packs are not "part of the car" then they can also innovate faster. I suppose one could even have "ice packs" or "fuel cell packs" for "special" uses.
Re:So like swap power packs - dude!
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I bought an RC10T electric R/C truck, and I absolutely hated batteries.
I then bought a T-MAXX, and having a gas truck is much much better.. I hope its not the same way with normal cars...
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But to get to 80 MPH you need at LEAST 1.21 Gigawatts!
They could only measure 0-60 because at 4 seconds, the li-ion batteries are all dead.
Good engine good.
But if you went 80 mph you would travel back in time. Unless your flux capacitor was broken then you might travel into the future.
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you mean rednecks and those technically savvy? yeah thats a huge group there ;)
Sorry for the troll.
Yay, I love watching 500 laps of people driving in a circle. Woo-hoo. I prefer rallying. If NASCAR cars had passengers, it'd go like this:
"Left. Straight. Left. Straight. Right. NO NO, I WAS KIDDING!"
Unless of course you purchase the Scotty model, which comes with a guy in a red shirt (who surprisingly doesn't die) who rides shotgun, takes requests/orders from the driver to improve performance, whines about how the (di)lithium crystal batteries won't take the stress, then after a few tense seconds gets the car going 30 m.p.h. faster than it's rated to go.
It's cheap, reliable, readily available, doesn't require batteries, thus saving money, weight and complexity.
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I haven't been able to thoroughly test my prototype though. It keeps losing power suddenly every time I get 100 feet from my house.
If I can just work out that one little bug. .
KFG
By your definition, all cars are 'electrical' because they use energy from some electrostatic force. The only 'non-electric' car would be some kind of atomic car, or a wind car or something like that.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Of course not, that would be ridiculous. We keep ours in the living room.
It has a towable gasoline generator. The thing could go forever. Don't even have to check the oil. Except on the generator, of course.
Yeah, but dude... 200 grand a pop, here.
So like with my RC cars when the juice runs out I swap to my alternate pack which is just finished being topped up...
Am I real stupid or something, how come they don't do the same thing with electric cars? What would it take to setup a consortium of power pack companies with enough stations to make it happen? Heck you could even just rent the packs hence lowering the initial price of the cars. Since the power packs are not "part of the car" then they can also innovate faster. I suppose one could even have "ice packs" or "fuel cell packs" for "special" uses.