Did one better than that. Here in Montana we use to have a unlimited speed limit which depends on what type of vehicle you where driving and can do it safety. But in the 75's the fed made us put on a speed limit of 55 mph, so our state wrote a one page law which I kept a copy in my car.
It states a vehicle shall drive a maximum of 55 mph that uses a limited fuel resources. Everybody still drove over 55 mph and if they got stop, all they had to do is pay $5.00 to the patrol and there was no limit on how many times a person did this. So one day, I was driving down a mountain road from the airport which is place on top of a flat top hill with my EV call Transformer I that has a GE-11 motor which is the same frame as a WarP-11 which Net Gain said they pattern after. Uses 90 each 300 ah 2.2 volt lead cobalt cells which the batteries themselves weigh 2700 lbs. Could actually run up this hill hitting the base of the hill at 75 mph and would slow down to the exit which was set at 35 mph. It was a 5 mile drive from my house up hill to work. The first 3 miles was a slight up hill and the last 2 miles was very steep to the top. Coming down the entry road to the highway, I could let up on the accelerator and the EV would get up to 85 mph. A co-worker with a Corvette would past me like I was standing still. I could could coast all the way to my exit for 3 miles which was a slight up hill, turn right and down hill and up hill again and turning right to my down hill street right into my garage. So one day I saw a highway patrol coming up at me on my down hill run and I let the EV roll to a stop applying my brakes which wasted 3 miles of inertial and extra charging time at home. When I roll down my window, I said "Not Guilty". He said I was going over the 55 mph speed limit, I said "I Know". I pull out the state law which was right on bright orange paper with large black letters, stating a vehicle that uses a limited resource cannot go over 55 mph. I said my vehicle does not use the limited resource, so my vehicle can go up to the speed limit set prior to this law. I said, pointing down to the Missouri River that goes through the first hydro dam out of five dams in this area. This river has been flowing even before Lewis and Clark got here. As long as the earth rotates and the sun evaporates the ocean waters, falling as rain on the Rocky Mountains forming a river through a hydro dam, I will have a unlimited resource. I then open up the hood of the EV to show him I do not use a limited resource to run this vehicle. I also said, when you stop me going down this hill, I lost miles of inertial energy which will cause me to spend more energy charging this vehicle. I did not get a ticket!! Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: EVDL Administrator<mailto:[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL]EVLN: “Are you serious, Dad?â€, 82yr-old Tesla's across Canada On 17 Nov 2013 at 3:42, brucedp5 wrote: > The cop-magnet appeal of a red-painted roadster was simply too much for > OntarioTMs boys in blue to resist, and they pulled Alf over three times > before he left the province. Not for speeding: one checked his > paperwork and the other two simply wanted a closer look at the car. One of the downsides of driving something unusual, I suppose. I was actually pulled over one night because a curious cop just wanted a closer look at my Comuta-car. It's hard to believe, I know. A C-car sure isn't a Tesla. But it happened. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ 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>) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131118/48a66123/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)
