I don’t think you get it! They wouldn’t sell many Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 9, 2018, at 4:16 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > You still don't get it. This car is built like a race car and is a race car. > It is also touted as a family car. The design is monocoque construction > like formula 1. Those cars survive 200 mph crashes. A 5 point belt is part > of the safety features. Lawrence Rhodes > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 10:06 AM, paul dove<dov...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Who would feel safe in an 827 lb car? > > > On Sunday, December 9, 2018, 11:37:15 AM CST, Lawrence Rhodes via EV > <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > I can only say that my attempts of education here have failed. I will try > again. Elon is a devious and secretive person. That is fine, he is in > business and needs to protect himself. He is right, his wonderful but piggy > cars are energy hogs. At 5000 pounds he would have to tow a fairly large > array to make the numbers work. However he has something up his sleeve. > Every time I talk to my friends at Tesla about solar vehicles they shut up > like clams. Tesla is well aware of the Cruiser Class(class rules mandate > multiple passengers and a trunk. That is a practical car) at the World Solar > Challenge. Tesla sponsors that class. Many higher ups at Tesla are solar > team alums. They know what it takes and it isn't the current crop of Tesla > design. Neither is it a rolling ping pong table. Here is what works. A four > wheel vehicle with: a weight of 850 pounds, CD of .016, a 15kw battery, 1.5kw > solar array & seating for 4. This design in the 2015 World Solar Challenge > set a record over two days on one full charge of 931 miles. This design was > so successful that the rules were changed in 2017 reducing the size of the > solar array. I hope now with this information everyone will realize that > solar vehicles are indeed possible technically. Can they be manufactured > successfully? I don't know. However they exist. Three generations have been > built by the students of Eindhoven University in the Nederland's and have won > all three challenges in the Cruiser class started in 2013. The Challenge is > bi-annual. These vehicles can go 400 miles just on the battery. With solar > they are capable of 45mph just on the array. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_(solar_vehicles)https://www.google.com/search?q=three+generations+of+stella+solar+vehicles&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixuczNoZPfAhXhgVQKHRQ3BBQQ_AUIDygC&biw=1579&bih=891So > please don't be so happy to think solar vehicles are not possible. Just not > the way you want them to be. These vehicles meet Dutch crash standards but > they do use racing harnesses and have no air bags. The 2017 Stella Vie is a > 5 passenger vehicle. Lawrence Rhodes > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181209/7438361c/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) > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181209/9981a66e/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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
