Ok, sometimes I'm a little slow. Why make a NEV instead of an EV? What is the advantage? Last time I checked 25 mph is really painfully unbelievably s--l--o--w. Boulevards around town have a speed limit of 35 or 45 mph. You would be a traffic nuisance and make everybody REALLY hate electric cars even more.
What am I not seeing? Are you thinking limit it to 25 during certification and then crank up the controller? On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Administrator wrote: > >> The irony here is that the light weight and low speed are meant to >> minimize >> the personal hazard of operating a light vehicle with little or no crash >> protection. >> > > That works if the vehicles wind up being driven only on low-speed urban > streets, and never get hit by normal "heavy" vehicles at high speeds. > However, these NEVs are usually driven on the same roads as 2-ton cars and > many-ton trucks. Accidents are inevitable. > > I think Amory Lovin's "hypercar" concept is a better idea. Design the car > to be lighter in the first place, yet *keep* all the safety devices and > crash protection. It's obviously possible. Solectria's Sunrise had seat > belts, air bags, impact protection, and passed DOT crash testsas a normal > high speed automobile. Yet it weighed *half* as much as a normal car of the > same size. > > We're trying to make it a kit car, but it's slow going! > See http://www.sunrise-ev.com/ > > -- > If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood > and don't assign them tasks and work. Rather, teach them to long > for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery > -- > Lee A. Hart, > http://www.sunrise-ev.com/**LeesEVs.htm<http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm> > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -- Marcus Reddish *North Valley Systems LLC* Stevensville, Montana 406-360-8628 northvalleyev.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130123/ca9ca67d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
