Lee, your note piqued my interest, so I googled these up: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/2670/1/bust.pdf http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/293/1/car.pdf
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Rice told of participating in the coast-to-coast Great Electric Car > Race (in 1968, I think it was). One team from MIT raced west, as another > team from Caltech raced east. Caltech won, BTW: They made the trip in about > 8 days, and averaged 300 wh/mile. > > They had to charge as fast as they could, wherever they could! There were > harrowing tales of the students climbing utility poles to clip on their own > "pole pig" transformer, to charge at 440v and 200 amps, while they dumped > bags of ice on the batteries to keep them from boiling! > > -- > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > -- > Lee Hart's EV work and projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20140228/81c9fce3/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)
