Actually, I just remembered my dad's ONE=WHEEL trailer. That was rigid to the car and could then only have to articulate vertically... but then having a high wheel and suspension in the middle of the RV space is a downer...
I wonder what the laws are on those? You couls really smak some things during a slow sharp turn if it was too long. Bob On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > >> Forget that solar trailer lunacy... what I want to build is an RV trailer >> for the BOLT. >> >> I want to add a complex sliding panel system to streamline the car with >> the >> trailer so that they become one for aerodynimics, but can make a >> reasonable >> turn and handle dips in the road too. >> > > That does sound challenging. I wonder if it might be easier to build the > trailer so you back the Bolt into it with its rear wheels inside the > trailer (not on the ground). Then lock the Car in place. Remove the back > tires from the car for ground clearance, and so it still sits level to have > proper front wheel alignment. Now you have a 4-wheel motor home. :-) > > Still a lot of work. > > I've thought about this sort of thing, too. I think a better approach > would be the one that Dave Peterson used to build the Ultravan motor home. > He was an aircraft designer, so he built his motor home out of sheet > aluminum, riveted together. It looked like the fuselage of an airplane; > very light and streamlined. Then he removed the drive train from a Chevy > Corvair, and mounted them in the Ultravan. The end result was an > aerodynamic 22' motor home that weighed about the same and got the same gas > mileage as the Corvair donor car. > > http://www.corvair.org/chapters/ultravan/ > > Do the same sort of thing, but use a Bolt or your favorite car as a donor. > > -- > Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all > our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, > and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartel > <https://maps.google.com/?q=Lee+Hart,+814+8th+Ave+N,+Sartel&entry=gmail&source=g>l > MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180101/3c8bfdcf/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
