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Build Your Own Solar-Powered Scooter
An anonymous reader writes "CBC is reporting that the Biomod company in Montreal has released plans for building your own solar scooter for only $1600 (in Canadian funds, no less!) Hopefully the engineering community will take an interest, and add brakes to the blueprints..."
I'll stick with the 1979 Ironhead Harley, it conveys me from place to place in style, and re-seals the driveway when I get home!
(That means it leaks oil)
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
omfg I lost a frist psot thanks to you. Leave your keyboard go outside and get laid. If I wasn't crippled with caffeine withdrawal, I guarantee you I'd be getting some right now. NEVAR 4GET -- dylain
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Excuse me? Wouldn't that be "nuf"? As a joke, it fails.
Glad I could be of service.
Oh, and stop making excuses because YOU FAIL IT.
What I just don't understand is... why do you keep posting this GNAA tripe? Is it funny? (no) Is it meaningful? (no) Is it creative? (no) Does anybody actually read anything beyond "GNAA"? (no)
Yet, you post it, over and over again. Over months (years?) of time? What kind of life do you have? Don't you feel ashamed at the time you're wasting posting this repeatedly, when you could be doing something (anything) with yourself?
This action merely bespeaks a truly sorry individual, and I really feel sorry for you. Oh, heck - I'm not even going to post with my account because I don't want to have any association with you.
How pathetic and sorry...
YHBT YHL HAND.
You can't even comprehend the value of a simple troll, therefore you are a moron.
Slashdot isn't what it used to be thanks to our editors :D - why the hell is this article on slashdot? WTF?
uoy era a toggaf
Since the conversations about this scooter are going nowhere, I'd like to change the subject.
I was looking into electric cars not long ago, and all I found were vehicles that could go maybe 30 miles on a charge. I wonder if anyone can explain why this is.
Fully electric cars like the EV1 can get over 100 miles per charge, and it's a quite large and heavy vehicle. But most importantly, it wasn't very high voltage... That small change would easily have increased it's range tremendously.
Why is it that all the conversion kits, and home-built electric cars have terrible range? It doesn't take a genius to design a good setup. Are the parts just not available? Are good motors hard/impossible to find? Are high voltage, high current DC converters available?
Why aren't there any good designs out there yet?
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