Just got done doing a very poor translation of the JC2 article found here: http://vehiculeselectriques.free.fr/JC2.html I apologize in advance for any grammar problems and inconsistancies. Everything that did not translate well that I had to embellish is in brackets [].
1996 Moto Technologie, translation as follows: In 1899, engineer Camille Jenatzy proudly presented his prototype of an autonomous travelling car, equipped with an electric motor on each wheel, and which exceeded the premiere mechanical ground speed in an autonomous propulsion machine for the its time with a speed of 100 km/hr (62 miles/hr). The car was named "Jamais Contente" [or Never Content]. Practically a century later, the pilot Bruno Bonhill whom one finds on an electric machine also intends to beat a speed record which for him is that of 200 km/h (124 miles/hr) on a two-wheeled electric propulsion vehicle. To arrive at this result, two teams of students from the Department Genie Mecanique and Productique of l"I.U.T of Rheims as directed by François Monteil, who is the owner of the project, and with the assistance of one of the professors, Denis Zalecki, [have spent] nearly 2 years [researching], investigating suppliers and sponsors, ground testing, and [solving] other logistic and technical concerns. Resting on a Leroy-Somer [electric] motor with 35 kw (that is to say approximately 48 horsepower) and 18 m.kg of couple at 3000 rpm (value which culminates has 40 m.kg when the rotor [turns] east blocks [ccw]) cooling is by outward-flow turbine, the JC2 lays out until 800 amps under 160 volts. This current is obtained thanks to 126 Saft [batteries] of 1,2 volts each (for a total weight of 90 kilos ( 198 lbs.)), normally used to start the turbo-engines of Boeing and Airbus. The assemblage [that connects all this] is a 500 amp electronic boost regulator [built] by the American company Curtis, which is none other than one of the equipments [used] on the Jeep Lunar [module] taken in the Apollo 11 mission. The booster [is equipped with 6 silver break-contact contactors operating in parallel on the regulator, this allows for the foot control to free up the 800 amps in phase with acceleration.] To allow this electromechanical fury (the transmission is assured on line by high strength aluminum pinions, and torque without joint competition chains: Report/ratio: 0,8: 35 X 47) to hold pavement in a straight line, the JC2 utilizes parts from a Kawasaki 1100 ZZR cycle with a modified aluminum framework, whose false-frame front tubular steel supports carnage cuneiforme, and various sprockets for the fixing of the technical modules and the electric propulsion. The hull integrates composite materials for an as-yet-to-be developed blower, and superbly painted by the Aero-Styl company. Destiny has to be attacked, during October against the various records of the world obtained by Max Biaggi with the handlebar of the Purple Violent One in 1994, the JC2 has already during a test meeting of semi-official menee on last 25 June, ameliore the current record of the world kilometre departure time at 6,62 seconds (by realisant a time of 28,235 seconds, against 34,86 for the current record), with a velocity emission of 205 km/h obtained out of 1,2 kilometres of acceleration (speed realized at the time of the official world record: 164,498 km/h (101.7 miles/hr)). But the JC2 will also attack the 400 meters departure time, the thousand departure time, and the thousand lance, on a homologous track by the F.I.M. Spectacle in prospect...[Wait and see] Caption 1: An electric motor bike which takes more than 200 km/hr with a profile like a plane? On Moto Technology [will give a little] blow to history to provide you some stereotype exclusive. Caption 2: The JC2 and its creators: from left to right Jean François Monteil (responsible for a bureau of study on Rheims, and director of I' I.U.T), Mickael Cassez (diploma of I' I.U.T of Rheims and Co-organizer of the project), and Denis Zalecki (professor at the department Genie Mecanic and Productique of I' I.U.T of Rheims). Caption 3: The frame of the JC2 rests on the framework of a modified Kawasaki 1100 ZZR and [needed for affixing] the various elements: batteries, carenage integral, etc. To offer less rolling friction, the JC2 is chaussee of tire "slicks" gonflies has 4.5 bars. Caption 4: The dashboard of the JC2 is connected more like a plane than a motor bike. In Top, it has three rectangular dials, from left to right: the temperature of the batteries; the large round meter on the left is an amp meter; in the center is the tachometer; the four small dials indicate, the tension auxilaire, the tension of the batteries, the startup of the circuit and the state of the fuse will genera. Caption 5: The kind of colors and warnings which [displays with confidence and leaves no question of what type of machine]. Caption 6: The large red button is called a contactor booster. When one supports above, as in "question for a champion", one has all gains of a blow: 800 amps arrive of a block, and abruptly liberate the power available to the engine. Guaranteed acceleration, with feelings decuplee by the total silence of operation (put has share the noises aerodynamic, well on). Caption 7: Finally, a framework doubles beam aluminum very well avere takes shape to accommodate all this electric and electronic implements. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
