<VV> electronic corvair conversion and other BS

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

And no where EVER do you hear anyone discuss the cost of replacing the
battery pack in these sorry excuses for cars. They always talk about 10
or 15 more mpgs than some other little 1200cc tin can that has half as much
metal in it than your old Minis.................And the public gulps 
down all the BS
just like they can't figure out that another 3 million  4 ton suv's 
may have some
effect on the gas shortage we now have worldwide because of refinery 
limitations.

Chuck Armer

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At 06:43 PM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
>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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