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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."
If they told you, it would just be in Euros... so you'd have to get a converter to figure it out... just like listing a US car developed at a US University with metric system stats...
What is wrong with the moderators today? My post is not a troll. It's fact.
A vehicle which weighs a fraction of current cars using traditional materials, which has no crumple zones, which has never been crash test, which has no air bags, can factually be referred to as a go-cart.
Go-carts often get great mileage compared to cars, but it doesn't make it a real car. In the end its still a go-cart.
What is wrong with moderators these days?!?!?!
is not like a gocart at all. How have I goofed up here?
And yet no one said otherwise, which is exactly why you've missed the boat twice! Re-read what I said; since you've failed to do so at least twice now. The second time was after it was clearly pointed out, you missed boat. Hell, you just jumped into the water without a boat even in sight. Let me guess, you're going to jump on me to clarify we're not talking about boats either?
I highly recommend you learn to read and follow context. Within context of the THREAD, you're completely off topic. In fact, you're well into troll territory. The fact that my original comment doesn't even mention absolutes and only makes generalized assessment of why I agree with the OP seems to have completely been missed by you; twice no less. And now possibly a third time.