RE: Lightning strike
Discussion
I thought current electric cars used nickle-metal-hydride batteries (which are awful), not Li-ion? I'm sure the current prius does (i know, it's a hybrid but still, same technology, no?), they are moving to li-ion for the next one though (it might actually be worth it then!). Or is it just the expensive ones (tesla etc) that are already li-ion?
fredtonge said:
i would buy one if it had a sound track to match the looks ? woooops what sound track
Lotus have the answer..... ICAATSaw this on telly a few years ago and remember them dramatically altering the car engine sound; most impressive.
Only works for the car interior though....
More vague promises, shaky maths, and quirky styling; another one for the great white hope files me thinks?
Now; Im not being cynical, I just dont understand how current (excuse the pun) battery and motor technology can deliver any where near the 'promised' preformance and recharge times. Would anyone want a silent sports GT car? Or are they going to give it a 1000 watts hifi with outside speakers to play an engine MP3 track of your choice??
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Now; Im not being cynical, I just dont understand how current (excuse the pun) battery and motor technology can deliver any where near the 'promised' preformance and recharge times. Would anyone want a silent sports GT car? Or are they going to give it a 1000 watts hifi with outside speakers to play an engine MP3 track of your choice??
Filed with TVR rescue plans, and all Al Melling projects....
Sounds great. Snowball in hells chance of the finished product meeting the marketing babble.
On a more realistic note, I have never understood why these hybrid cars are petrol electric? The technology has been used in trains for yrs (ok without the batteries) but they are diesel electric. I thought diesel had a higher thermal efficiency. Surely running what is essentially a generator would be ideal for a high torque diesel. With the batteries acting as a surge buffer between generator and electric motors there would be even less need for something that can pick up revs quickly. Run on bio-diesel or chip fat it would be ideal or am I missing something?
On a more realistic note, I have never understood why these hybrid cars are petrol electric? The technology has been used in trains for yrs (ok without the batteries) but they are diesel electric. I thought diesel had a higher thermal efficiency. Surely running what is essentially a generator would be ideal for a high torque diesel. With the batteries acting as a surge buffer between generator and electric motors there would be even less need for something that can pick up revs quickly. Run on bio-diesel or chip fat it would be ideal or am I missing something?
97octane said:
Why, exactly, does an electric car need a gear lever?????????
Good question.Perhaps because it requires more oomph to get a car moving than to cruise at constant speed: and therefore you could increase the range by using less power when cruising?
I don't know, just a thought really.
gizmo.mp3 said:
97octane said:
Why, exactly, does an electric car need a gear lever?????????
Good question.Perhaps because it requires more oomph to get a car moving than to cruise at constant speed: and therefore you could increase the range by using less power when cruising?
I don't know, just a thought really.
Also, like a petrol engine, electric motors can benefit from gearing to give enhanced acceleration at low speeds. CVT would be the obvious answer. Depending on motor type and controller system, an electric motor will typically deliver constant (peak) torque up to a particular speed and constant (peak) power beyond that. If the car is geared such that the boundary between these two regions occurs at Vmax, then compared to a similarly powerful, geared, petrol car, the electric car will be less rapid off the line. It would be akin to pulling away in top gear, only an electric motor delivers torque smoothly from a standstill unlike a petrol engine.
gizmo.mp3 said:
97octane said:
Why, exactly, does an electric car need a gear lever?????????
Good question.Perhaps because it requires more oomph to get a car moving than to cruise at constant speed: and therefore you could increase the range by using less power when cruising?
I don't know, just a thought really.
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I presume it is because hybrids have been developed in America/Japan so far. With diesel cars being banned from most of America (california at least) and large parts of Japan (Tokyo) due to there high levels of pullution; they can only have petrol cars. I believe Peugeot is working on a diesel/electric car. I think they made a berlingo van that could do 100mpg?
Also, yes, i've always thought that using a small engine (500cc, turbo charged 2 cylinder should do for most cars) running under high load and charging a battery would dramatically increase the mpg.
I presume it is because hybrids have been developed in America/Japan so far. With diesel cars being banned from most of America (california at least) and large parts of Japan (Tokyo) due to there high levels of pullution; they can only have petrol cars. I believe Peugeot is working on a diesel/electric car. I think they made a berlingo van that could do 100mpg?
Also, yes, i've always thought that using a small engine (500cc, turbo charged 2 cylinder should do for most cars) running under high load and charging a battery would dramatically increase the mpg.
Car looks nice enough...but is it just me wondering about the following:
1) Nanotechnology, 4 motors, 700hp, 0-60 in under 4 seconds....not very impressive acceleration for an electric motor....not when a guy can take his old golf, piles in some batteries and an electric motor and has nearly the same result
2) Ahem, ecology? when this guy goes onto the mains to charge, the whole are has no light. And where does electricity come from? from the socket, alright, but wherefrom really? Nuclear and thermal power stations...great ecologic thinking...
3) True, at 250miles, the touring cannot be very grand
1) Nanotechnology, 4 motors, 700hp, 0-60 in under 4 seconds....not very impressive acceleration for an electric motor....not when a guy can take his old golf, piles in some batteries and an electric motor and has nearly the same result
2) Ahem, ecology? when this guy goes onto the mains to charge, the whole are has no light. And where does electricity come from? from the socket, alright, but wherefrom really? Nuclear and thermal power stations...great ecologic thinking...
3) True, at 250miles, the touring cannot be very grand
Trenchtown said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is a late april fools joke?
- 700 bhp
- Ten minutes charging
- Battery life expectancy of 12 years
COME ON!!!
Yup, yesterday was March 31 - or it's an unfortunate coincidence. NanoSafe battery technology, with it's 10-minute charge time, is made by a company called Altairnano; the president and CEO happens to be A. Gotcher. http://www.altairnano.com/corp_management.html- 700 bhp
- Ten minutes charging
- Battery life expectancy of 12 years
COME ON!!!
Hope I'm wrong about it being a joke. If we back these alternatively-powered cars now every manufacturer might actually get their development teams seriously on the case. Does it matter how the future supercars - or just cars - are fuelled providing they do what we want them to do? Yeah, ok, other than the sound of a fat V8, V10, flat-6, etc. But I'd not mind driving the back roads from JoG to LE in my future Ferrari, stopping only to let the sun's rays catch up and 'refill the tank'...
Same old same old. Where's the market for it ? How many new cars over about £20k are purchased with private money ? Not a lot is my guess, so virtually no market. Lambo, Ferrari etc are hardly volume producers and Lambo would probably be gone by now except for VAG. Bugatti "went" a number of times and are only back as a VAG technology showcase.
Nice idea but just that I think.
Nice idea but just that I think.
The design looks really good now, they did a nice restyling job.
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