I am in no way connected to Ian Wright or the Wrightspeed as I am sure is true of you also. I have however been given a free ride in the car by Ian a week ago because I was lucky enough to be at the right place looking at his car and he appears to be a great guy.
I sugest you work on that aspect of your personality!
I have rode in Ian Wrights car last week. He is a very down to earth engineer who worked his way into racing in Australia by pulling the nonessential stuff out of stock production cars then going out and having fun on the weekends.
My point about the race cars is that many have similar space frames to the Arial Adam which is the basis for Ian's car. The drive system is the combination of a very dependable Honda transaxle and an electric motor/controller combination which has been in production for more than 10 years. The electric drive will easily run several times the distance a gas powered motor will run. It has only one moving part!
Last the Wrightspeed has a useful range of about 150 miles, more than enough for my purposes and is more fun than I have ever had sitting down!
I don't understand your reference to rich people. It is obvious to me the rich in this country are getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle class who are doing worse. The people who produce oil and control energy are a large part of the problem. We have the largest debt in the worlds history. We are wandering around the world starting wars to protect oil. What is wrong with making electricity using photovoltaic cells on your roof (like I do) and driving an electric car (like I do). I am a high school teacher and not rich. My car cost $3800 and power system $13000. This is less than most people spend on a new car.
When I used the word expensive I was referring to the quanity of energy used. Modern lithium batteries can store lots of energy efficiently and can be recharged rapidly for many cycles (see A123Systems). Slow electric vehicles are a result of a bad design not a result of the quest for efficiency!
The energy from the battery is used to either accelerate the cars mass (so 1400lb cars like the wrightspeed are more efficient) or overcome rolling resistance (so low rolling resistance tires like the wrightspeed are better) or overcome wind resistance (where the wrightspeed is not good at high speed). The energy put into the system to accelerate the car is largely returned to the battery using regenerative braking when the car slows down.
In the end analysis for urban use where the major component is acceleration and braking electric cars regardless of horsepower (big electric motors are about the same efficiency as small ones) have a very big advantage over gas cars.
Wrong,
This car is street legal. Ian Wright drives it daily.
I rode in Ian Wright's car a week ago. This car is the most fun you can have sitting down. It is electric; no giant corporate, national security and pollution problems. The Wrightspeed is silent, incredibly fast, 1.24 lateral g's cornering! This car is more than three times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of energy used per mile. How often do you drive more than 150 miles locally in a day? There are more than 100 FREE locations available to charge it in the San Francisco bay area alone.
Wrong,
The Wrightspeed is able to withstand the impacts you named and meets all applicable US safety standards. Have you ever watched the spectacular crashes on the racing circuits and then watched the driver walk away? Weight does NOT equal strong. Weight equals stupid.
1) Electric power is cleaner than gas (to many good sources to list)
2) The Wrightspeed is more than 3 times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of btu's/mile
3) In the Wrightspeed the energy is returned to the battery when braking...
Electric cars can be a smarter way to do things, however the cycle will undoubtedly continue.
Advertising by auto industry -> advertising by oil companies -> Americans buy the stupid choice -> we march off to war and give our money to people who want to kill us.
The other car wanted a rolling start to spare his clutch. The Wrightspeed is just a faster car in shorter distance runs. Speeds much over 100mph on city streets are just antisocial behavior! The Wrightspeed has more than a 100-mile range. Good enough for my commute!
Wrong...
Unlike gas cars fast electric cars are no more expensive to run than slow ones. The Wrightspeed uses less than 1/3 the energy used by a Toyota Prius and is a whole lot more fun!
You guys are not getting it.
I rode in Ian Wright's car a week ago. This car is the most fun you can have sitting down. It is electric; no giant corporate, national security and pollution problems. The Wrightspeed is silent, incredibly fast, 1.24 lateral g's cornering! This car is more than three times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of energy used per mile. How often do you drive more than 150 miles locally in a day? There are more than 100 FREE locations available to charge it in the San Francisco bay area alone. The car is cheap to buy compared to all the others in its speed and performance class. This is the auto world equivalent of open source. Accessible technology that is usable and practical today.
Batteries are available that charge in minutes (see A123 lithium cells) and drive systems (see AC Propulsion and the T-Zero) are incredible. Americans have been barraged by so much auto and oil energy bull over the past 50 years or so that we have a hard time seeing the light even when being blinded by it!
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I am in no way connected to Ian Wright or the Wrightspeed as I am sure is true of you also. I have however been given a free ride in the car by Ian a week ago because I was lucky enough to be at the right place looking at his car and he appears to be a great guy. I sugest you work on that aspect of your personality!
I have rode in Ian Wrights car last week. He is a very down to earth engineer who worked his way into racing in Australia by pulling the nonessential stuff out of stock production cars then going out and having fun on the weekends. My point about the race cars is that many have similar space frames to the Arial Adam which is the basis for Ian's car. The drive system is the combination of a very dependable Honda transaxle and an electric motor/controller combination which has been in production for more than 10 years. The electric drive will easily run several times the distance a gas powered motor will run. It has only one moving part! Last the Wrightspeed has a useful range of about 150 miles, more than enough for my purposes and is more fun than I have ever had sitting down! I don't understand your reference to rich people. It is obvious to me the rich in this country are getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle class who are doing worse. The people who produce oil and control energy are a large part of the problem. We have the largest debt in the worlds history. We are wandering around the world starting wars to protect oil. What is wrong with making electricity using photovoltaic cells on your roof (like I do) and driving an electric car (like I do). I am a high school teacher and not rich. My car cost $3800 and power system $13000. This is less than most people spend on a new car.
When I used the word expensive I was referring to the quanity of energy used. Modern lithium batteries can store lots of energy efficiently and can be recharged rapidly for many cycles (see A123Systems). Slow electric vehicles are a result of a bad design not a result of the quest for efficiency! The energy from the battery is used to either accelerate the cars mass (so 1400lb cars like the wrightspeed are more efficient) or overcome rolling resistance (so low rolling resistance tires like the wrightspeed are better) or overcome wind resistance (where the wrightspeed is not good at high speed). The energy put into the system to accelerate the car is largely returned to the battery using regenerative braking when the car slows down. In the end analysis for urban use where the major component is acceleration and braking electric cars regardless of horsepower (big electric motors are about the same efficiency as small ones) have a very big advantage over gas cars.
Wrong, This car is street legal. Ian Wright drives it daily. I rode in Ian Wright's car a week ago. This car is the most fun you can have sitting down. It is electric; no giant corporate, national security and pollution problems. The Wrightspeed is silent, incredibly fast, 1.24 lateral g's cornering! This car is more than three times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of energy used per mile. How often do you drive more than 150 miles locally in a day? There are more than 100 FREE locations available to charge it in the San Francisco bay area alone.
Wrong, The Wrightspeed is able to withstand the impacts you named and meets all applicable US safety standards. Have you ever watched the spectacular crashes on the racing circuits and then watched the driver walk away? Weight does NOT equal strong. Weight equals stupid.
1) Electric power is cleaner than gas (to many good sources to list) 2) The Wrightspeed is more than 3 times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of btu's/mile 3) In the Wrightspeed the energy is returned to the battery when braking... Electric cars can be a smarter way to do things, however the cycle will undoubtedly continue. Advertising by auto industry -> advertising by oil companies -> Americans buy the stupid choice -> we march off to war and give our money to people who want to kill us.
The other car wanted a rolling start to spare his clutch. The Wrightspeed is just a faster car in shorter distance runs. Speeds much over 100mph on city streets are just antisocial behavior! The Wrightspeed has more than a 100-mile range. Good enough for my commute!
Wrong... Unlike gas cars fast electric cars are no more expensive to run than slow ones. The Wrightspeed uses less than 1/3 the energy used by a Toyota Prius and is a whole lot more fun!
You guys are not getting it. I rode in Ian Wright's car a week ago. This car is the most fun you can have sitting down. It is electric; no giant corporate, national security and pollution problems. The Wrightspeed is silent, incredibly fast, 1.24 lateral g's cornering! This car is more than three times as efficient as a Toyota Prius in terms of energy used per mile. How often do you drive more than 150 miles locally in a day? There are more than 100 FREE locations available to charge it in the San Francisco bay area alone. The car is cheap to buy compared to all the others in its speed and performance class. This is the auto world equivalent of open source. Accessible technology that is usable and practical today. Batteries are available that charge in minutes (see A123 lithium cells) and drive systems (see AC Propulsion and the T-Zero) are incredible. Americans have been barraged by so much auto and oil energy bull over the past 50 years or so that we have a hard time seeing the light even when being blinded by it!