Electric Car Dreams

[diegoh]

Imagine never servicing your engine of gearbox ever again? and having the torque of 2 v8s at any rev range?

A super go cart that rips away at 20 cents per 100klms?

 

We need a 150klm range quick recharging Electric (large Remote control Car) for under 25k.

 

Electric motors and batteries are getting cheaper its time to screw the oil companies now and Toyota can do it.

[Jono]

Imagine the cost of replacing the batteries?

[7shades]

I've had a pipe dream for ages about electric cars, and it could happen tomorrow if our government actually did something proactive for a change...

Nutshell explanation:

Just a cheap, basic small thing that everyone can afford, true electric - not hybrid- with a range of a few hundred k's.

Everyone owns one, the battery packs are removable, you charge it at home or work, but if you run outta juice you pull into the servo and pay a nominal fee to exchange battery packs... Like 10-20 bucks or something.

Btw, the servo is powered by a renewable source of electricity....

Obviously its a lot more complicated than that, but its DO-ABLE... the technology is there, and it has been for years. GM did it in the early 90's, so did Toyota... until the oil heavies shut both projects down.

 

http://www.ev1.org/

 

^^^ scroll down a bit and read the story. It will make you angry with the world, just like me :lolcry:

 

Holy way off topic batman.... sorry ancullen. I should start a 'Jarad's daily rant' thread or somthing... mmm maybe not

[Jono]

trust me, i'm all for it. can't wait to see old cars with full electric motor conversions.

 

 

i think we australians have too much of a "she'll be right" attitude when it comes to politics and our rights.

[7shades]

We're naive... or possibly just deep in denial or blissful ignorance.

We watch the news and see the corporate corruption in the system in somewhere like the US, and take comfort knowing our beloved politicians couldn't possibly be involved in anything so dishonest and manipulative... Pffft

[irokin]

Tone down the anti-political sentiment please. I've told you previously it isn't welcome here and it isn't the aim of this forum.

[diegoh]

Its just time that the most powerful car company in the world offered us

cheap EVs before nissan, subaru and mitsubishi do.

 

Say something lesser than the tesla with halve the range and a third of the price.

They can do it without the Teslas aluminium, expensive BMS (battery management system)

& a choice of safe / stable Lithium nano phosphate or longlasting Zebra molten salt battery.

 

I would buy a new toyota when this happens .

 

For now Ill continue with LPG and old Rollas as they are more fun.

 

I think this new corolla is bad vw golf like/yaris mutation and will only see failure which is way

due to Toyota for not evolving into what it should and advertises. Even if it loses sales due to this model,

it wont hurt/nudge them financially. perhaps they can wake up and offer us a real solution rather than a

complicated machine that still runs on dirty fossil fuels.

 

Until its electric all the way for Toyota my whole family are keeping our old Yotas on LPG and cheap no

name brand type oils. It will have to happen as its a matter of avoiding the inevitable.

 

Even with these cheap oils Yotas run just fine unlike many other makes. :lolcry:

Edited November 18, 2007 by diegoh

[Rollaboy2608]

http://sydneyaeva.googlepages.com/index.html

 

Look here, I have actually been in Grant Burke's Camry, he is a mate of my dad. When dad first told me about this car, I didnt believe that it was fully electric.

 

The car makes no noise. Except for tyre noise. Its an eerie feeling, riding in it.

 

He just puts it into third gear, and off it goes

Edited November 19, 2007 by Rollaboy2608

[curly]

google water4gas, may surprise, we,ve already got a 4 stroke mower running on a mix of 5 parts petrol 95 parts water, next is a car Youtube water powered lawn mower, water powered car

Edited November 19, 2007 by curly

[7shades]

I've built a stationary engine that runs on water. Well, hydrogen if you wanna get technical.

 

Hydrogen is great... but there are some inherent difficulties in converting the current global fleet to run on it.

Namely the incompatibility with conventional EFI, (for the moment anyway) and the idiot factor involved with using such a volatile substance makes it a commercially scary venture.

 

The technology will evolve... but I see Hydro more as a very cost effective and green alternative to coal for mass baseload power generation. This in turn could charge our little electric buzzboxes.

[Jason]

Electric cars are just as bad, because remember where they are changing from... a power plant. (There is always nuke though) Hydrogen is cool, i wish they would take some more steps in commercialising it. Also i would like to run a combustion motor off hydrogen :lolcry:

Edited November 19, 2007 by Jason

[camerondownunder88]

Nuke power plants and then it will be nearly pollution free to charge my electric car. I like the idea of them. Torque central etc. You can buy some commercial electric cars google the tesla car. FAST AS FOOK and millions of options quite nice but pricey car.

 

As for me. I say get an old liteace van. Nice one or 2 747 batteries (there awesome) get the roof fitted with solar cells just to provide a tad bit of charge direct couple a BIG ass I think it is shunt wound motor to get massive torque and high RPM direct drive it to a nice diff ratio and have it charge the batteries when car is coasting. Also the motor would be capacitor discharge like that electric motor bike at willowbank that runs like 7's passes. Charge the cap and drop it though the motor for a few seconds of ELECTRO_NOS..lol

 

But who am I kidding. Get a surplus RR250 gas turbine C18 variant. About $1000US if found at right price 315 shaft horsepower EASY. Run it on filtered STRAIGHT no messing about veggie oil from fish shop. Free fuel jet powered car :lolcry: can't see what could possibly be wrong.

 

And I'm half way there just need motor, batteries, adn the car..LOL

 

Cameron

[irokin]

I've built a stationary engine that runs on water. Well, hydrogen if you wanna get technical.

 

lol well... thats kinda like saying "Ive bleached my hair with water...but if you want to get technical it was actually hydrogen peroxide". H₂O and H₂O₂ are very different molecules, just like H₂O and H₂ thus you can't call hydrogen, water...

[7shades]

Even if you WERE charging from coal power, the emissions equate to one quarter of what you'd generate burning petrol.

but, renewable baseload energy is the only way for electric cars to be truly useful.

[7shades]

lol well... thats kinda like saying "Ive bleached my hair with water...but if you want to get technical it was actually hydrogen peroxide". H₂O and H₂O₂ are very different molecules, just like H₂O and H₂ thus you can't call hydrogen, water...

 

I ain't no fancy scientist or nuffink, alls I do is put electromuhcicity through water thens I gets bubbles, then I gots a pipe and a regulatoriser off a gas bottle and them bubbles goes intuh the engine.

 

Yuk yuk

Edited November 19, 2007 by 7shades