http://www.news.com.au/national/electric-sports-car-takes-just-two-hours-to-charge-and-runs-on-2-a-day/story-e6frfkp9-1227082418855 Electric sports car takes just two hours to charge and runs on $2 a day October 08, 2014
[images http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2014/10/08/1227083/511692-0e307d10-4e78-11e4-bf0e-a119824e8941.jpg Electrical engineer Michael Day of Epping has build his own green car. Picture: Elenor Tedenborg Source: News Corp Australia http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2014/10/07/1227082/418135-4bf908ae-4c72-11e4-9e23-58c8fc76b92f.jpg Michale Day with his electrical car, which runs on $2 a day. Picture: Elenor Tedenborg Source: News Limited http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2014/10/08/1227083/511753-6e007e60-4dbb-11e4-992c-3f72318c1952.jpg Mr Day’s electric car creation: the rebuilding process. Source: Supplied http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2014/10/08/1227083/511817-1974e012-4e78-11e4-bf0e-a119824e8941.jpg Electrical engineer Michael Day of Epping has build his own green car. Picture: Elenor Tedenborg Source: News Corp Australia ] IT may well be the most productive midlife crisis of all time – building an electric sports car which takes just two hours to charge and runs at a cost of $2 a day Its owner, Epping resident Michael Day, has just one regret. “I wanted it in red but I had to be satisfied with white,’’ he laughs. Mr Day is an electrical engineer who describes his project as “an obsession more than anything’’. “It’s been an addiction, a compulsion.’’ While there are four electric cars on the market in Australia, there are no sports-style designs, although Mr Day believes this will change shortly. He has been making things since he was a kid but when Mr Day moved out of programming to a managerial role he missed that practical, hands-on work. Five years ago he set about finding a car he could completely pull apart and rebuild for the daily commute from Epping to Pyrmont. “I drive a V6 Commodore [ice], a big brute of a car,’’ Mr Day said. “I wanted something that was still powerful but fun to drive. Electric cars are very powerful, nippy and really good in traffic.’’ He bought a 1989 Toyota MR2 because he wanted “an electric sports car, that was my midlife crisis’’. He sources parts from around the world and says it is still a work in progress. “It’s a little bit Frankenstein,’’ he said. The result is a car which he plugs into a standard power outlet every night before the daily commute. It takes two hours to charge and has a range of 50km with a top speed of 100km. The obvious advantage is in the cost but Mr Day also loves the drive. “When you are sitting in traffic it consumes little energy and it’s really responsive.’’ It is widelybelieved the world’s first electric car was built by British inventor Thomas Parker in 1884. Parker was also the man responsible for electrifying the London Underground and overhead tramways in Liverpool and Birmingham.. Mr Day believes the market will be inundated with hybrids within the next five years. “I think you’ll find all cars will have an element of electricity,’’ he said. “There are many places in Europe you can’t drive a petrol car and in London you don’t pay the congestion tax if you have one. In Japan hybrids are everywhere. It’s going to take time to turn around in Australia. We have a government that’s not really interested.’’ Mr Day said eventually the price of petrol will make electric cars more attractive but has resisted suggestions of starting up his own company. “It was in my mind but there are plenty of people smarted than me, I can’t compete,’’ he said. “My hope is that someone will build one that I’ll like.’’ [© news.com.au] For EVLN posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3Devln%26sort%3Ddate http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/electric_bikes_may_no_longer_n.html Goofy PA ebike law to be revised since there is no vin (!) http://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/44137-simon-hackett-invests-in-a-graphite-mine-predicts-tesla-will-help-drive-a-clean-energy-tipping-point.html Hackett graphite mine investment> Tesla clean energy Tip-pt prediction http://green.autoblog.com/2014/10/13/eu-cutting-back-on-ev-hydrogen-infrastructure-targets/ EU cutting back on h2 infrastructure targets> goals unrealistic http://bakken.com/news/id/223227/three-reasons-solar-will-outshine-fossil-fuels-mexico/ EV'r sez 3Reasons Solar Will Outshine Fossil Fuels In Mexico https://transportevolved.com/2014/10/07/guest-post-remembering-william-robert-korthof-1978-2014/ Remembering EVangel William Robert Korthof – 1978 to 2014 + EVLN: VW Is Auctioning-off their 1st E-Golf EV, ends 10/29 {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Day-s-MR2-sports-EV-AU-2-day-c-2hrs-L2-r-50km-ts-100kph-tp4672159.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.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)
