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...but not before the frame rusts. As soon as the epoxy cracks, thosee suckers go. There is a company making stainless steel backbones for the D, but it's $9,000 just for the bare backbone!
and yes, there are LiIon batteries out for EV applications with 18 - 20 year warranties.
and yes, there are LiIon batteries out for EV applications with 18 - 20 year warranties.
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I hate to say it, but mods you might wanna close this thread. I see a flame war comming on.
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About "yeah, but you have to get the electricity from coal burning plants"
Given a coal-burning plant, and assuming a standard conversion that keeps the original transmission, diff, etc., EVs are 97% cleaner then the internal combustion engine car including the pollution that is generated at the electrical power plant. Remember, it's much easier to clean up one central power plant than to keep all the individual ICE cars tuned up and running cleanly.
Given a coal-burning plant, and assuming a standard conversion that keeps the original transmission, diff, etc., EVs are 97% cleaner then the internal combustion engine car including the pollution that is generated at the electrical power plant. Remember, it's much easier to clean up one central power plant than to keep all the individual ICE cars tuned up and running cleanly.
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Originally Posted by Nicholas P.
metaphor's are commonly used in everyday life. If somone said they could eat a horse do they litteraly mean it. Again real mature but maybe you should listen first before throwing a tempertantrum like a 3yr old.
Here (since you again, don't know what you're saying), is the definition of metaphor: something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol. Or: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
Originally Posted by Nicholas P.
If somone said they could eat a horse do they litteraly mean it.
Originally Posted by Nicholas P.
Again real mature but maybe you should listen first before throwing a tempertantrum like a 3yr old.
Originally Posted by Manntis
They should have used Lithium Ion batteries instead of far heavier, less efficient lead acid ones. The newer generation of LiIon in electric car apps have a life expecancy of 20 years or so - you have to worry about the body rusting long before battery failure.
This particular car had16 batteries under the hood, 12 behind the seat; 16 above the Dodge rear axle. To keep the rear tires from spinning, they changed it to 72 batteries over the rear axle and added wheelie bars - the front end kept jumping up from the torque.
As for electic cars being slow, watch it take on a Viper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32E4li3xHI
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OK, so you have an electric car that only costs 37 cents to charge it every night?
Realistically, it cost about $0.20 to go as far as a gallon of gas will take you. So yes, you save money.
This particular car had16 batteries under the hood, 12 behind the seat; 16 above the Dodge rear axle. To keep the rear tires from spinning, they changed it to 72 batteries over the rear axle and added wheelie bars - the front end kept jumping up from the torque.
As for electic cars being slow, watch it take on a Viper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32E4li3xHI
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Originally Posted by alex_the_hipple
OK, so you have an electric car that only costs 37 cents to charge it every night?
Realistically, it cost about $0.20 to go as far as a gallon of gas will take you. So yes, you save money.
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Well I'll add this: It IS the perfect engine swap for me! If I didn't want a rotary, this would suit my needs PERFECTLY. I'm 12 miles from town, so a 60 mile range (which is typical) is more than adequate for most of my trips. I could build that car for about the same cost as restoring most any vehicle, including my RX7. If I needed to go further, I have 7 other vehicles to use. I hope one day to build an electric; can't wait, actually...
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Originally Posted by Tha Driver
Well I'll add this: It IS the perfect engine swap for me! If I didn't want a rotary, this would suit my needs PERFECTLY. I'm 12 miles from town, so a 60 mile range (which is typical) is more than adequate for most of my trips. I could build that car for about the same cost as restoring most any vehicle, including my RX7. If I needed to go further, I have 7 other vehicles to use. I hope one day to build an electric; can't wait, actually...
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Originally Posted by Tha Driver
It IS the perfect engine swap for me!
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Yeehaw!.....electric wheelies!
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
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Originally Posted by steve84GS TII
Yeehaw!.....electric wheelies!
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
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Beautiful looking car. Neat idea. Don't know that I'd ever go for it though, unless you can put some kind of scent emitter on the car that lets out gas fumes and a chainsaw under the hood that revs with the gas pedal.
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Originally Posted by steve84GS TII
Yeehaw!.....electric wheelies!
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
http://www.mazspeed.com/untitled15.jpg
Just trying to keep things on track.
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