<VV> Electric Power for Corvairs?

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/17/2007 6:00:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  mark at noakes
.com writes:

I'm  surprised...or maybe I missed it as I'm bad about skipping posts...
that no  one has mentioned the Li-ion technology that the Tesla is using 
and that  has been extensively discussed even here.  It's almost ready 
for  prime time but pretty darned expensive for a lowly Corvair and the 
safety  issues require more than a hobby level of engineering to 
implement...but  you can get quite a bit of range out of them now.  THE 
issue is  cost.

Mark Noakes




There is probably a great source for Li-ion batteries. Old laptop cells!  
Sony has truck loads of them. You would have to bundle in a fire  extinguisher 
system, though! (The Tesla does not use the Sony cells - this does  not apply to 
the Tesla, etc, etc.) - Seth



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