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The World's Fastest Electric Car
Roland Piquepaille writes "In this review, Forbes.com looks at the fastest electric vehicle in the world, the tzero roadster built by AC Propulsion Inc. 'The tzero does 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, according to the company, and it does it on only 200 horsepower.' The company says it starts faster than a Ferrari F355. It also has a limited range of 280 to 300 miles at 60 mph on a single charge. The company expects a price somewhere between a Porsche and a Ferrari, but Forbes says it carries a $220,000 sticker price. This overview contains more details and links. It also includes a rendering of the Tzero. Please note that the Forbes article has a very different focus from the one mentioned in a previous Slashdot reference."
The difference between a traditional electric car and one of those new-fangled hybrid cars is the power source only. What is really amazing about this car is that a 110lb electric engine produces 200 hp and that easly makes the transtion between electic, hybrid, and hydrogen cars. I am still scatching my head about diesel engines being included.
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The World's Fastest Electric Car - don't let the price shock you.
What about the world's fastest SOLAR-electric car?
The Nuna II, just won the World Solar Challenge, travelling 3000 kilometers in just 31 hours, averaging around 97 km/h.
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World's fastest stopper. 60 to 0 in 0 seconds flat.
Anyone who golfs knows what kind of punch an electric golf cart has from a stand still shouldn't be surprised by this. Nothing beats waiting for your playing partner to get one foot in the cart and then flooring it. He gets bended backwards over the seat like a pretzel. Pisses at your and struggling with a sore back, he shanks it the rest of the round. Fun with inertia!
if it's like a laptop, you will have to change de battery after 1-2 years!! and how costly is a car battery??
What about the Tengo?
It gets 0-60 in about 4 seconds, and a top speed of 130MPH. That is certainly better than 3.6 and 60.
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Not trolling... I just honestly don't know.
How are electrical cars more energy efficent than gas powered ones? We get the majority of our electricity from burning fossil fuels.
If we all convert over to electrical cars, will be not just burning more oil and coal in our power plants?
Where the energy-saving step that I am missing?
Davak
Whose average commute is longer than 100 miles?
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And when you are sitting in traffic, do you need to go 0-60 in 4.1 seconds?
Why can cars with a relatively low range not be used for commuting to and from work?
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I have a problem getting into a car that is so likely to become airborne that the manufactuer put in an altimeter.
If you read the article you would know that the range of 100 miles was the range of the vehicle with some older battery. With a 'new li-ion' one, the range was increased to 280 to 300 miles.
How much coal, oil, gas is required on a large scale to make all of that extra electricity that would be required? Seems to be close to a zero sum proposition.
With every country but the USA moving to minimum renewable energy targets, it's an increasingly attractive proposition. Plus you can generate your own electricity if you wish, using renewable sources. I won't rehash all the benefits of centralising the cleaning of fumes in a power station as opposed to millions of portable generators, as already discussed dozens of times on Slashdot, so even in todays infrastructure it still makes sense (especially countries like France where over 80% of energy is nuclear).
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Electric motors, unlike internal combustion engines, can generate maximum torque at zero RPM. This translates directly into excellent off-line acceleration, impressive 0-60 times, and all-round high performance. Around-town driving in an electric car should give the impression that there's a much bigger engine due to our preconceptions based on internal combusion (thus, the comment "only 200 hp"). Top speed, however, will seem stunted in comparison to that available from an internal combustion engine because they generally produce increasing torque with increasing RPM (especially below 2000 RPM).
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The substantial storage capacity of electric car battery packs would also give benefits for the electrical grid (which should be high on our list of priorities after 8/14/2003). See the papers at acpropulsion.com about vehicle-to-grid ancillary services.
And no, I have no relationship with these guys, I just think they're clever and have a damned good idea.
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then when do we see hybrids that have REAL efficiency?
30-50 MPG is a waste of time. the VW TDI deisel get's 55MPG and is NOT HYBRID.
Hybrids should be at 60-80MPG now and +100Mpg by the end of this decade.
until then I'll stick with a VW TDI and the ability to get it serviced almost anywhere unlike a hybrid car.
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"Put 100 megawatts of power into a transmission grid and I doubt much more than 50 or 60 megawatts come out the other end."
False. Modern transmission systems can achieve under 2% loss in large-scale power transmission. And that's talking about a scale of Terawatts Hours, not Megawatts (keeping in mind that as the amount of energy lost in transmission is proportional to the amount of energy transmitted). Granted the site is for the UK power grid, but it shows you that any modern transmission system is ridiculously unlikely to be operating at 50% loss on a megawatt scale, even when dealing with distribution levels (transmission refers generally to connected substations, etc. on the power grid, distribution refers to how it gets to your house from there).
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"plus most driving in the city is sitting at a standstill so the vehicle uses almost ZERO power while sitting."
do buy in to that. In the real world, its going to need a radio, and some enviromental controls.
Not that this isn't interesting, but they really need a test that involves what most consumer would want.
Clearly, buy purchasing this car, the consumer feels they don't need what a gas engine brings them, but how many people will sit inside a car with no AC when its 100 degree outside? or a heater when its 32F/0C outside?
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" If OPEC decides it wants to raise the price of oil again, we can just make more nuclear power plants"
No - the current political regime does not see things this way.
OPEC does not raise the price of oil. OPEC cuts supply. This has the effect of raising the price of oil. Which is enormously profitable for domestic oil producers. Who donate huge sums of money to politicians to ensure that this continues to happen.
So you see, there's NO incentive for domestic energy companies to abandon the profitable oil business and compete with other energy sources like nuclear, solar, wind, or faeries, and it doesn't have anything to do with whether a given technology is green or not. Has everything to do with how profitable it is to keep the market dependent on the artificially scarce resource.
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