OT - It Takes Two To Tango

Check this out - www.commutercars.com

Check the performance (in the left-hand column) - and this vehicle is
electric!

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Alan Erskine wrote:
Check this out - www.commutercars.com

Check the performance (in the left-hand column) - and this vehicle is
electric!

Electric performance isn't anything new.
Around the turn of the century before last! electric cars held the land speed
record. (1899, 67.5MPH)

The electric car is a relatively inexpensive reliable solution that's
ready for prime-time. Well, apart from the batteries.
If someone came up with a battery with the energy density of hamburger that
could be recharged tens of thousands of times at rapid rates, then fossil
fueled cars would be on the way out.

The Tango may well do 0-60 in 4 seconds.
But if you do that often, your batteries will need replacing often.

The Smart (mercedes or BMW, I forget) shares a number of the features,
a 2 passenger car, though squashed lengthways not sideways.
http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/

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Ian Stirling wrote:

If someone came up with a battery with the energy density of hamburger that
could be recharged tens of thousands of times at rapid rates, then fossil
fueled cars would be on the way out.

If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.

Paul

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:26:52 -0500, "Paul F. Dietz"
wrote:

Ian Stirling wrote:

If someone came up with a battery with the energy density of hamburger that
could be recharged tens of thousands of times at rapid rates, then fossil
fueled cars would be on the way out.

If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.

....Would you like green eggs and ham?


OM

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