http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-design/a13931959/floridas-hopeful-ev-from-the-1970s-is-a-fantastic-first-car/ Florida's Hopeful EV From The 1970s Is a Fantastic First Car Nov 27, 2017 Máté Petrány
[images https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/florida-1511791605.gif?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=980:* animated .gif YouTube / Simone Giertz https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/sabine-1511794277.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=768:* The Citicar was America’s best-selling EV since 1945 until Tesla Model S came along / Flickr Steve Jurvetson via Wiki Commons video https://youtu.be/hXzcIoq2ing I just bought the most ridiculous car - 5:03 Nov 24, 2017 - Uploaded by Simone Giertz I'M OBSESSED WITH MY ELECTRIC COMUTA CAR. All I want is to work on her. I didn't know I liked cars ... ] The cheese-shaped Sebring-Vanguard Citicar was an obvious choice for a first car for Simone Giertz, Sweden's most famous robotics enthusiast. If you don't know who Simone Giertz is, subscribe to her channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ ], and get your geek on. If, however, you're also not familiar with Commuter Vehicles Inc.'s Comuta-Car, let me take you back to the '70s right away! Inspired by contemporary golf cart designs and the challenges raised by the first fuel crisis, the early 3.5-horsepower variant of the Citicar soon made Florida's Sebring-Vanguard the sixth largest auto manufacturer by volume after GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, and Checker. Talk about some crazy times! Built around a tubular chassis and powered by a 48-volt battery pack, the wedge-shaped Citicar soon evolved into a 6-horsepower monster, with Vanguard building some 2300 units until 1977. The design was then purchased by Commuter Vehicles Inc., who upgraded it further, launching the resulting machine as the Comuta-Car. Before that transaction was complete, Vanguard also made an extended-wheelbase variant called the CitiVan. But it was Commuter Vehicles who finished the job, launching the 1979 Comuta-Van with swing-out side doors and a hatch back window, as well as a Postal Comuta-Van with sliding side doors. To meet goverment standards for a USPS contract, Commuter Vehicles created a real beast with the latter. The Postal van was not only longer at 142 inches, but more powerful as well, hiding a 12-horsepower motor connected to a 3-speed transmission and a 72-volt battery pack. Simone's first car may only be one of the less powerful civilian Comuta-Cars, but it sure is the perfect first car for San Fransisco—as long as she keeps going downhill, and downhill only. Cheese Luise also happens to be very safe, sporting a 4-point harness, a hairy-chested parking brake, and the most advanced rear crash structure known to men in 1979. Supposedly. [© 2017 Hearst Communications] ... https://www.fac ebook.com/simonegiertz/posts Simone Giertz - Posts · November 24 at 11:04am ·. I might have just bought one of the world's most ridiculous cars. I call her Cheese Louise, because she looks like a cheese wedge (and runs about as well as one too). I'M OBSESSED! Just posted a video about it, link in the comments 🧀. Image may contain: 1 person, outdoor. ... https://www.fac ebook.com/simonegiertz/photos/a.972697579466793.1073741828.972286026174615/1565481670188378/?type=3 Simone Giertz - I might have just bought one of the world's most ridiculous cars. I call her Cheese Louise, because she looks like a cheese wedge (and runs about as well ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Simone-Giertz-bought-a-Sebring-Vanguard-tp4688665.html Simone Giertz bought a Sebring Vanguard Nov 24 2017 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar A Citicar by the side of a modern all-electric Tesla Model X (right). Accounting all variants, the Citicar had the record for most production of electric cars from an American manufacturer since 1945 until surpassed by the Tesla Model S ... ... [dated] http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Mythbusters-race-each-other-on-pEVs-in-Golden-Gate-Park-Polo-Field-SF-CA-v-tp4684236.html Mythbusters race each other on pEVs in Golden Gate Park Polo Field SF-CA (v) ... Machine VLOG Simone Giertz ... I built an alarm clock that wakes me up in the morning by slapping me in the face with a rubber arm. I picked apart a clock, wired it to an Arduino UNO and controlled a 165 rpm brushless DC motor through a relay. If you peeked your head in at the Polo ... Oct 28, 2016 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
