Depends on what is wrong. You still need to be able to generate a field in the alternator to power the fuel injectors. If the battery is open or you have a bad cable it won't start. Older cars had a generator instead of an alternator.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is the only car group I know. So pardon the off-topic post. > > > > A young kid with a minicooper flagged me down to jump start his car. I > told him, I’d be happy to if he could figure out how to use my 400V pack…. > > > > Then I asked, well, have you tried just rolling it and popping the clutch > to get it started. He looked at me with blank stare. I smugly said, sure, > it’s a stick shift, so we just get it rolling and pop the clutch and it > will start. > > > > It wouldn’t. Then I began to realize, that all the cars I have done this > with in the past DID NOT HAVE ANY CPU’s in them. IE, all you have to do is > get a spark, not power up and entire network of computers before the motor > will even begin to consider the “starting process”. > > > > So is this true? That we can no longer pop-start a modern car with a dead > battery? > > > > My son (too cheap to buy a new battery) still does it frequently with his > pre-cpu Geo-Tracker, in fact we just did it last week. > > > > I’m just too old for all these newfangled hurdles… > > > > Bob > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160818/8d076b7c/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > 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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
