Here is JB Straubel's pusher version 2, the front clip of a VW Rabbit (any automatic geared small engine front wheel drive car will do) as you can still find it in the Internet archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20040401155738/http://www.jstraubel.com/EVp usher/EVpusher2.htm> Note - if the above link is broken, simply past the two parts or go to archive.org, enter jstraubel.com and on his homepage select Pusher 2.
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Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cor van de Water via EV Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 2:15 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20161121 Bob, You don't understand - the pusher is a device that you build yourself for about $500 by getting a good-running Salvage (rear end crashed for example) and cutting off everything behind the A-pillar, fixing the front wheel steering into straight-ahead (lock steering) and put some cover in place over the dash, as well as mounting a fuel tank and pump somewhere, for example in the footwell. Then weld on a tow hitch, wire up the remote start and accelerator control and off you go. At least, that is how Mr Straubel and a couple others have done it... http://www.evalbum.com/223 (unfortunately the jstraubel.com domain is terminated, so the links to the pusher don't work) http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1255&start=110 Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 1:14 PM To: Lee Hart; Electric Vehicle Discussion List; Cor van de Water Subject: RE: [EVDL] EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20161121 The cost of the pusher (in the small quantities that anyone would want to buy them) would be more than the cost of a spare car! And it you drag it along most places you go, you'llbe cutting your mileage by far more than it is worth. Just towing a tiny 4'x4' utility trailer (solar panels) behind my prius drops the mileage form 50 down to 35 MPG. A pusher is just a crutch for delaying the ievitable loss of a gas station on every corner. bob -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 12:17 PM To: Cor van de Water; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20161121 Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > Regarding recharging while being towed: I have at some point (a couple years ago) considered buying a Leaf in Los Angeles and partly driving, partly flat-towing it back to the Bay Area. I already realized that you don't really need to stop for charging if you use on-road regen charging while being towed for part of the trip and driving the EV for other parts, starting with a fully charged vehicle and if there is an overnight stop then that is also a natural moment to get the EV recharged without taking extra recharge time. > However, I ended up with the need to transport the Leaf by myself earlier this year, so I used a tow dolly all the way instead. Here's a related idea that I keep thinking about: A few people have built "pusher" trailers. The trailer is really the front clip of a front-wheel drive car, complete with ICE, automatic transmission, and transaxle. The throttle and ignition switch are remoted so they can be operated from the driver's seat. To take a long trip with your EV, connect the pusher trailer to a trailer hitch. Start the ICE, put it in Drive, and go! When the ICE is idling, it just creeps forward, like any car with an automatic transmission. Your EV's brakes can easily hold it back. On the freeway where you need help, use the ICE's throttle to push your EV and control your speed. Obviously, you'd limit the ICE throttle to restrict how much push the trailer can produce. 100-200 pounds thrust should be all you'd need for a normal EV, and that isn't enough to cause braking or handling problems with a 3000 lbs EV. And, you certainly wouldn't use it down hills or in slippery conditions. -- The problem in this business isn't to keep people from stealing your ideas: It's to *make* them steal your ideas! -- Howard Aiken -- Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
