uuhhh... if you drop by the staging facility in Rockville, maryland, you will see most time 10-20 tesla's. there are lots of tesla's on the road in the DC area
--- On Tue, 6/4/13, L. Chris Hager <[email protected]> wrote: From: L. Chris Hager <[email protected]> Subject: [EVDL] Saw a Tesla sedan on the road! To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 4:25 PM Was running north of DC on the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy on Sunday. I saw him in my mirror; he followed me, then took the left lane and went by and off ahead. Sweet-- and most impressive. If I were ever to pay more than $6500 for a car, it would be high on my list. I've seen only one Tesla roadster on the road around here, almost 3 years ago-- we're thin on electrics here in the nation's capital. I've started doing my bit: just bought a e-converted 1958 Berkeley, without batteries. Berks are the lightest, smallest 2-seat sports car ever made, in England, '56 to '60. They had the advantage of weighing only 680 pounds, dry and without the driver's weight, so under 900 on the road. This one was converted for e-racing, and did well, before it had a controller malfunction and blitzed the betteries, which I think were nicads. lt's been sitting for 5 or so years, near Boston. A friend there, ean electrical engineer and car buff, are hoping to have it running by fall, and will ship or haul it to my Virginia location after he's had some fun in it. Already I'm soliciting advice: it has a 144v controler and motor, both Solectrica (sp?) I think. The car's so small that the batteries are going to have to be low ampere-hour units just to pack into the space available (it's 10 ft, 2 in long, 52 in wide, and not high at all-- haven't measured. Will likely go w/ lithium, Thundersky or equivalent, but that's why I'm posting-- all opinions here will find me open-minded. Remember, the car without its orig motor and gas tank are around 550 lb, and it's pretty aerodynamic (see the Berkeley Enthusiasts Club- BEC- website). Lowest price will be attractive, unless something elst has real advantages and not too much higher price. Opinions?? Thx -Chris, in Falls Church, VA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130604/843314c5/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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130605/bfb35445/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)
