Hi All -
I know that to us EV-minded folks and certainly anyone who knows
anything about electricity or physics this whole thing is ludicrous -
energy from nothing? No way! But there are a good number of people who
see nothing wrong with it - I routinely get asked by people I show my
electric pickup to "Why don't you put a generator on the wheels and
recharge as you drive? I can't believe nobody has thought of that!"
(separate from regen questions) or "Why not just put a big wind
generator on top? Then the wind going by could recharge your
batteries." I get this ALL the time and it always blows my mind to
realize that some people have no idea how energy works at all. I can
easily believe that someone like these Delorean folks would try to cash
in on this ignorance. I am in no way making a generalization about the
general public being ignorant about this stuff but rather just that is
is common enough that someone could take advantage of it. Obviously the
Delorean guys are going to be very secretive. They know perfectly well
what they are doing is BS but hey, they can't let on!
On a fairly unrelated note, I am just starting college at Worcester
PolyTech here in Massachusetts. I have been poking around, trying to
start an EV club or organization or something. Turns out that GM gave
the school an EV1, but they just garaged it and nobody knows where it
is! I am going to ask around in the ECE department and see if I can
find the thing. At the very least someone should be driving it! Seems
a crying shame to just have it sitting somewhere with no one caring for
it =(
-Seth
On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Chris Tromley wrote:
> ethorpe wrote:
>
>> Has anyone heard about this??? Sorry if this ends up being a
>> distraction, but it urks me when people make wild claims
>> promoting EVs. If they don't disclose the truth or fail in
>> their claims, tend to downgrade EVs even more in the public
>> and media eyes.
>>
>> Just a questionable heads up about a rather wild claim:
>> "After several years of personal accomplishments in the
>> alternative energy industry, Carl B. Tilley was convinced
>> that it was possible to build an electric car that could be
>> powered without the help of external power to keep the
>> battery charged."
>
> OK, I'll take a stab at the obvious snide remark:
>
> It's really not so surprising you know, all you need is a flux
> capacitor.
>
> I wonder if anyone has tried to tell Mr. Tilley that Christopher Lloyd's
> character in "Back to the Future" was a joke. If he could actually
> drive hundreds of miles on off-the-shelf batteries and still have them
> fully charged at the end, I would think re-writing the laws of physics
> would command a bit more attention than making a neat EV.
>
> Maybe Bruce Meland could attend the "validation" run at Nashville
> Speedway on 9/7 and give us a report? Seems right up his alley.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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