http://www.autos.ca/auto-brands/feature-vw-1-litre-car/ Old, and Diesel-tech ..but 282 MPG ! I would like to know the kWh/100km if it was electric.. Maybe not so hard to calculate, if we assume 45%(?)eff. engine.
I guess it would save a lot on battery costs. /John > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:36:13 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EVDL] GM UltraLite, EVLN: 1959's EV of Tomorrow Looks Awfully > Like Today's > > jerry freedomev wrote: > > GM actually built something similar called the GM UltraLite. > > Yes; it was a very advanced concept car. It exemplified Amory Lovin's > hypercar principles, using lighter high-strength materials and > techniques to simultaneously improve both fuel economy and safety. See > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Ultralite > > > The ability to swap out/ rent, lease or own drivetrains takes away > > any bad points EV's might be perceived to have. And the lightweight, > > aero design means for a Volt's 24kwhr pack it would get well over > > 200 mile range and only 10 kwhr would get 100 mile range making it a > > very cost effective EV but big auto doesn't want that. > > I don't think the Ultralite actually implemented this idea. But there > have been real cars that did. The 1959 "dream car" originally mentioned > in this thread actually got built in the 1970's. Dr. Harold D. Kesling > built the "Yare" and exhibited it at the 1978 Electric Auto Show in > Chicago IL. > > The Yare was a bright yellow ultra streamlined composite "pod for the > absolute minimum wind resistance. The driver sat in the center up front, > 2 passengers in the center seat, and a smaller "jump seat" or storage > area behind that. The pod had one centered front wheel, two in the > center on the left and right, and one centered rear wheel. The front and > rear wheels both steered. The two center wheels were driven. > > It had a range of about 50 miles with the lead-acid batteries of the > time. The rear wheel was actually a removable trailer, which could be > uncoupled and replaced in a few minutes. He had both an ICE and an EV > "trailer". The EV trailer had more batteries to extend the range. The > ICE trailer has the ICE and a generator. > > As of 2009, the Yare prototype was in the LaPorte County Historical > Society Museum in Laporte IN. > -- > Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. > -- Albert Einstein > -- > Lee A. Hart, http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.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/20130715/d0d141f0/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)
