'electric-powered car championed by engineering students from UBC'
http://gizmodo.com/the-most-amazing-things-we-saw-at-bay-area-maker-faire-1705378174 The Most Amazing Things We Saw at Bay Area Maker Faire Last Weekend Sean Buckley 5/19/15 [image http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EiSXidFR--/1259451428781538989.jpg awesome homemade electric vehicle http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--M08QtEIV--/1259451428854766765.jpg http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tJm67fq9--/1259451427625907117.gif (animated gif) Scott Parenteau’s “Walking Pod” is a walking geodesic dome. A twelve-legged, solar powered robot. Its 0.2 MPH top speed won’t outpace the average person, but its slow crawl is hauntingly beautiful. ] ... this awesome homemade electric vehicle was parked right behind it: Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like—some crazy bastard crammed an electric motor into an old Miata. Patrick Makey spent almost $14,000 converting this 1992 Miata into a modern electric vehicle. The batteries in its trunk cost Makey $7,000 on their own—but the conversion still cost him less than buying an electric car new. It’s a fine example of the passion Makers have: if you can’t afford to buy the technology you want to ride into the future, build it yourself ... [© gizmodo.com] http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/140195/Kings-of-the-hill Kings of the hill by Carmen Weld | May 19, 2015 ... “There was a good crowd of spectators on Saturday,” says Fulton. “Sunday, the crowd was a little less due to the rain, but we still managed to get all seven runs in that we promised the drivers, so it was just fantastic.” For the first time in the race's history, an electric-powered car championed by engineering students from UBC also held its own, competing in five of seven runs ... ... http://www.knoxmtnhillclimb.ca/results/2015results_overall.pdf full list of the results ... http://ubcelectriccar.com/ UBC Electric Car Club UBC Engineering Design Team http://paf.engineering.ubc.ca/2013/08/31/ubc-electric-car-club/ For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Some-crazy-bastard-crammed-an-electric-motor-into-an-old-Miata-tp4675728.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)
