<VV> electronic corvair conversion

[Ron]

Real science is no fun at all so it's much more fun to believe in the power 
of wishful thinking!  This includes cooling the Corvair engine with a 
pinwheel.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Elliott" <Corvair at fnader.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> electronic corvair conversion


> That reminds me of the "Foolproof Way to Make a Million Dollars":
>
> Step 1: Start with 2 million dollars
>
>
> Without some serious technology, electrifying a vehicle just doesn't make 
> sense. A buddy of mine with a failr strong engineering background has been
> working for year on an electric Berkeley... a two passenger car that 
> weighs 600lbs stock. So far, after years of devleopment, he's able to top 
> 35mph and
> have a range of almost 20 miles.... though more usually more like 12.
>
> To do this correctly you have to use and recycle every joule of potential 
> engery... regenerative braking, etc.. much too complicated for the casual 
> (or even
> semi-casual) builder. Plus battery technology has not changed much over 
> the past several years, so you're still faced with the same inefficiencies 
> with the
> batteries and the motor.
>
> And even if you suceeded in coming up with a workable system, since most 
> of our energy comes from coal-fired and natural gas plants, you're only 
> moving
> the creation of the pollution elsewhere. Only if we heavily relied on 
> nuclear power would this make much ecological sense.
>
> Gasoline (or diesel) is still the most viable option. If you really wanted 
> to go down this road you'd want a biodiesel hybrid... IMO. And I'd sugest 
> you'd NEVER
> recoup your costs in any sort of savings... even the car companies can't 
> make hybrids work... they cost more to build and run over "normal" cars 
> that you
> could never recoup the energy by savings... it's sort of like solar 
> cells... more energy goes into making a solar cell than they will likely 
> ever produce over
> their lifetime. But folks love pseudoscience...
>
> Bill Elliott
>
>>> OK...with the increase Oil and gas prices, is it time to revisit the
>>> Electro-Vair experiments?
>>>   What can we do as Hobbists to convert into electronic as others have 
>>> with
>>> v-6's and V-8's?
>>>   what can we do to make them hy-brids?
>>>   Thoughts? costs? Equipment?
>>>
>
>
>
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