Rock Group gets an electric car

triffid said :

Remember, too, Merc that while it indeed will go around 160 kms, those last 40 – 60 won’t be all that fast. Batteries don’t just go ‘bop’ and run out of power.

Batteries don’t (although the technology is getting better all the time) but the power from the batteries on any even vaguely modern device is regulated so that the device gets constant voltage and current until the batteries get too flat then *bing* it stops.

triffid said :

Remember, too, Merc that while it indeed will go around 160 kms, those last 40 – 60 won’t be all that fast. Batteries don’t just go ‘bop’ and run out of power.

I doubt it, maybe the disposable AAs in your tape player or the NiMH batteries in your power drill do that, but lithium ion batteries don’t.

The screen on your mobile phone doesn’t get duller as the battery runs down, it just dies at once.

Remember, too, Merc that while it indeed will go around 160 kms, those last 40 – 60 won’t be all that fast. Batteries don’t just go ‘bop’ and run out of power.

$70k sounds like a bit of a hurdle to adoption. As for 160km being a range issue, I don’t think they are designed to do long distances, but plugged in every second or third night would mean never needing a recharge around town.

As for speed, they will have max torque avail all the time, so acceleration will actually be pretty good, top speed is 130km/h so you’d be fine around town

I believe they are good for around 160 km’s, then need a 7 hour recharge. So on a trip to Melbourne I would get to Yass,before an o’night stop, then Gundagai, another o’niter. and so on .So all up a little over a week to get to the MCG. Now thats progress. Cobb and Co were quicker.

Pommy bastard said :

How do you develop rocks? Do you need a special darkroom?

… and maybe sixteen squillion years. but lemme tell ya, cross processing is a bitch.

Cool. What does one of these i-MiEVs cost?

George . . . my mail has them at around the $70,000-00 mark. That doesn’t include the modifcations you’ll need to make to the wiring in your garage so that you can charge it while running a microwave as well (and without plunging the house into darkness).

How do you develop rocks? Do you need a special darkroom?

johnboy said :

Rock Group gets an electric car

That’s not very rock and roll. I assume this rock group plays EMO?

“believe electric vehicles are the way forward”… albeit slowly.