% EV-ignorant Vancouver.ca writer sees NMG/Sparrow-EV as sightseeing-alien-UDO, a gamble & not his answer %
http://www.straight.com/blogra/387646/homeless-vancouver-after-landing-aliens-do-bit-sightseeing Homeless in Vancouver: After landing, the aliens do a bit of sightseeing by Stanley Q. Woodvine February 10th, 2015 [image / Stanley Q. Woodvine http://d2ciprw05cjhos.cloudfront.net/files/v3/styles/gs_large/public/images/15/02/dimpled-3-wheeleed-car.jpg (NmG EV) ] Okay, so the the little three-wheeled UDO (Unidentified Driving Object) I just saw motoring down West Broadway Avenue wasn’t an alien ground effect vehicle doing reconnaissance ahead of the invasion—unless the aliens were the plan-ahead variety and took the time to get B.C. licence plates. With its single back wheel and a distinctive body that vaguely resembles a dimpled aircraft wheel fairing, it looked like a gussied-up motorcycle trike. In fact it was a Myers Motors NmG, a U.S.-made three-wheeled electric vehicle (NmG = no more gas). The NmG design has been in production since 1999, when it was called the Corbin Sparrow. The NmG is a Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV), which has been described as a personal electric vehicle (PEV), in an attempt to define its narrow aspiration to be used for inner-city commuting. Two other examples of “personal” electric vehicles that I’ve seen driving around Vancouver are the high-performance Tango T600, manufactured just across the border in in Washington State and the hybrid bicycle/electric Carzari Lexicle, handmade by a local resident named Stuart. The Carzari might properly fit under the U.S.-defined category of low speed neighbourhood electric vehicles (NEV). It seems to me that these tiny little electric vehicles are not the answer to a glaring immediate need so much as a hopeful gamble; a kind of Boolean statement of faith in the truth of peak oil: IF[oil = expensive AND batteries = good enough AND consumers = motivated] Create new electric vehicle category [get rich] ELSE IF[Go (Bankrupt)] END IF Stanley Q. Woodvine [ https://sqwabb.wordpress.com/ ] is a homeless resident of Vancouver who has worked in the past as an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer. Follow Stanley on Twitter at @sqwabb [ sqwabb @gmail.com ]. [© 2015 Vancouver free press] ... http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/chap03/else-if.html IF-THEN-ELSE IF-END IF ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_Motors_NmG Myers Motors NmG ... https://www.google.com/search?q=sparrow+electric&biw=1024&bih=646&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=YbTaVNzwJcqnNsCHgMgB&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg images sparrow electric ... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sparrow_ev/info Corbin Sparrow Electric Vehicle Drivers - Yahoo Groups ... http://www.evalbum.com/type/CRBN Corbin/Myers Motors For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3DEVLN%2Bbrucedp2%26days%3D0%26sort%3Ddate {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-IF-oil-costly-consumers-motivated-Create-EVs-ELSE-IF-GoBankrupt-tp4673779.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)
