Damn. If it had been the DeLorean, I might have jumped on it.
Several years back when Tilley was going to do his big PR stunt with the DeLorean driving
something like 500 miles on a single charge (thanks to his little magic black box), I got
a call from an auto writer down in the area who wondered if it could be legit. I told him
my bet was that the car would go no more than 50 miles before stopping. Amazingly (!) it
had a "wheel bearing failure" that caused them to cut the demo short below 50 miles
traveled. And somehow, they never ever finished up the demo after that. Makes me wonder
what guys like Tilley are thinking -- there is no way a couple little fans mounted on the
front of the car will ever generate enough power for near-perpetual motion, no matter what
they're hooked to -- and he had to know this, so why expose yourself like that, unless
you're trying to appeal to some gullible people with money out there who wish it could be
true and feel sorry for you when something unrelated to your magic tech causes failure...
I'd LOVE to see what's inside the "TEV controller" -- his magic black box!
Resistor-capacitor network? :-)
-Tom
On 8/10/2013 6:54 AM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote:
>From what I could see from the ebay ad
-144V pack of 12 group-27 12V wet-cell marine/deep-cycle batteries for
the traction pack
- 12V group-24 wet-cell aux. battery
- TEV controller (?)
- Zivan NG3 120VAC charger
- Project EV is in Nebraska, has been stored indoors, batteries need
replacing, does not say it runs
- Do not contact the ebay seller, use the telephone number at the bottom
of the ad for the actual owner and ask for Dave
I am thinking the way it is currently setup, even with a new set of
batteries, it would only get 20 miles range, 15 safely, and with daily
use, the pack would need to be replaced at best once a year. I would
definitely plan changing the pack configuration to use better batteries.
And I would change the charging so the EV could use your local public
j1772 L2 6kW infrastructure.
{brucedp.150m.com}
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxK_hGLTN4
Dave!? ... Dave!? ... Dave's not here! ...
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013, at 02:19 AM, tom wrote:
This is a moldy oldy.
Do you remember the Tilley electric car that had batteries that gave
incredible miles?
Well one of his creations is on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1997-Pontiac-Bonneville-electric-car-vehicle-ev-/290957866383?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43be70b58f
He has some of those high capacity Everstarts in there.
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