Steve Clunn wrote: > So many thing to think about here. Here is something I > haven't heard talked about "driving slower". > would you consider it?
Well, I have already started driving "slower" in order to get more mpg. On the open road I drive at the speed limit (used to go about 20km/h faster). The problem is the only sensible way to get into the city from where I am is to use the highway. There is an alternate route but it's quite twisty so there's lots of speed-up/slow-down bits, and then after that it's traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings etc, and overall the route is longer. I could drive a little slower than the speed limit, but other drivers tend to get irritated at that, and besides I want to demonstrate that an EV can do just as well as an ICE car. > May be think about your project from another point of view. > lets look at a middle of the road conversion 20 to 24 6v > (as your are not making a hot rod) in a light car. That's where I started from. :-) > Are you going to be able to get your > head inside this car when you got this big EV grin going > ear to ear? Probably not. :-) > build the best car you can and then learn to live with it. > What are the > chances you won't be happy with it ? probable less than 1/100 I'll bear that in mind too. If I end up going with "Plan B", it will be a car that will get me to the supermarket and the railway station, and I'm sure even that would give an EV grin. > Back to earth ,How many gallons of gas do you use a day to > do your driving? How maney mpg dose your car get? Tricky questions - I have the answers in my Palm Pilot but I left it at home today, dammit. On the last fill-up I got 9.9 km/litre, I won't attempt to quote it in mpg because we use different gallons over here. It take about 2 weeks to use up about 50 litres, so at a guess that's about 4-5 litres per day on average. Answers in US units tomorrow. :-)
