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700 HP Electric Car!!!!!!

Postby yeshuas on Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:04 pm

Will Lightning Strike in the UK?
A native car company unveils a 700-horsepower electric supercar at the British Motor Show 2008
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Postby yeshuas on Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:15 pm

I like the idea of the sound module, anyone else here remember using balloons in your spokes to make your bike sound like a motorcycle? Of course the balloons they make now wouldn't last half a block?
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Postby augie on Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:47 pm

yeshuas wrote:I like the idea of the sound module, anyone else here remember using balloons in your spokes to make your bike sound like a motorcycle? Of course the balloons they make now wouldn't last half a block?


Hahaha, I used playing cards held on with clothes pins. A ten minute charge is really out there! Only thing is that the electricity is generated by fossil fuels. Plus, can their electrical infrastructure even handle the electric power demand if everyone's doing it. It's like the US northeast power grid, it's already being used at or past it's maximum and this would kill it!
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Postby Absolute-Zero on Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:35 am

That is a seriously nice looking car. If the future of battery powered road vehicles looks like this then I'm all for it!

As Augie says, though, relying on the current power grid to charge hundreds of these cars at a time would cause havoc. They need to be supplied with some form of personal generating system, say solar panels or wind generators (when the technology becomes more efficient) in order to charge independently of the Country's power infrastructure.

It'd mean it cost you a whole lot less in electricity bills, too!
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