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MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models
alphadogg writes "Inside a plain-looking garage on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus, undergraduate Radu Gogoana and his team of fellow students are working on a project that could rival what major automobile manufacturers are doing. The team's goal is to build an all-electric car with similar performance capabilities of gasoline-only counterparts, which includes a top speed of about 161 kph, a family sedan capacity, a range of about 320 kilometers and the ability to recharge in about 10 minutes. They hope to complete the project, which they chronicle on their blog, by the third quarter of 2010. Each member of MIT's Electric Vehicle Team works almost 100 hours a week on the project they call elEVen. 'Right now the thing that differentiates us is that we're exploring rapid recharge,' Gogoana said during an interview. He said that many of today's electric vehicles take between two to 12 hours to recharge and he doesn't know of any commercially available, rapidly recharging vehicles."
MPG.
Not quite, but the did make the mistake of using some cheap aftermarket Firestone tires.
Aha! A bicycle!
They forgot to mention the recharge mechanism involves lightning, that should charge it quickly if harnessed.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
That will be especially useful when the car travels back to the 1950's.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
- Dr. Emmett Brown
With a forklift?
That's either millicentimeters or a McMeter. In both cases, I'm confused.
Sounds great OPECS and big oils very worst nightmare. No need to pay thousands of dollars for gas. But what I don't understand is that the average car weighs somewhere around 4,000 pounds. When the vehicles moving how come that energy cannot be used to generate the power to recharge the battery itself? Maybe the battery companies are funding MIT's project and need some way of generating some dinero of this thing? Somebody has to get some money somehow.
Your perfect machinations will forever run around my mind.