On 28 Sep 2015 at 21:30, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > Our budget ev's fail because they are too heavy.
I wasn't going to write anthing more about this subject, but I have to respond to this. YOU may consider YOUR budget EVs to be failures, and that's entirely your right. Maybe they don't meet your needs. I have no idea. But I sure hope you're using the "royal our" there, because you don't get to make that judgement about other people's EVs. Thousands of people all over the world have built short- to medium-range conversion and original EVs that suit their needs just fine, thank you very much, regardless of what you think of them. I'll just add that some folks on this discussion list might indeed buy hyperefficient EVs. Maybe I would. I initially thought the Aptera was a really interesting idea. However, we're talking a percentage of about 600 people, which is not exactly survival territory for most automakers. Hyperefficient and/or onboard PV EVs are a tiny niche of an already small niche. And EVs are still a niche product. We think that Nissan selling 30,200 Leaves last year was a huge success, and it was, but in the same year Chevrolet sold 34,839 Corvettes, and even GM will tell you that the 'Vette is a niche vehicle. So if you want something like Stella, you're probably going to have to build it yourself. If you don't want to duplicate Stella, maybe you could find a copy of the plans for Bob McKee's Sundancer and update the design. It managed between 95 and 135 Wh/mi (depending on speed) in 1973. That was with lead batteries, a DC motor, and a belt drive. Just imagine what it could do with 2015 engineering! Curiously, its dimensions were quite close to Stella's (124" long, 40" high, 62" wide). And, IMO, it was a much more handsome car than Stella. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: 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/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
