On 10 Jul 2020 at 17:57, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote: > I seem to remember someone driving a converted VW microbus > coast-to-coast 30-40 years ago, and it had far less than 100 miles > range.
This may be what you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Transcontinental_Electric_Car_Race I read a much more exhaustive and entertaining description of it in the 1980s, but can't recall where, unfortunately. The utilites set up charging sites for the race. I've seen s a photo of the MIT Corvair charging in front of a gigantic transformer station. IIRC, the Caltech guys (led by none other than Wally Rippel, the guy who designed the first commercial transistor EV controller) also shinnied up a few countryside power poles to harvest electrons here and there. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. -- Bertrand Russell, "Education and the Social Order" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
