Hi Bill and all, Cliff Rassweiler, Andrew Roddy, and myself all have over 100 mile range on our EVs, so no problem there for us on the range issue for the SunDay Challenge road rally.
Could those of you with lead-acid conversions please answer Bill's question below about whether your cars can manage 35 miles? How about 47 miles? I guess to some extent it depends on the speed driven. ... Which is a question back to you, Bill: What roads and speeds are you anticipating for this year's SunDay Challenge road rally? If you're talking about 45 mph or less, I'd guess many could go 35 miles. At 35 mph or less, I'd think a fair number could go 47 miles. But if there are substantial portions of the course at 50 mph and above, that might be a problem for many of our lead-acid conversions to make those kind of range numbers. I don't know; you guys with lead-acid conversions who would like to participate in this event again this year please chime in on this. Charles Whalen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FLEAA Mailing List" <[email protected]> Cc: "EVs for Sale DL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [FLEAA] Great time at BBB! HI I am glade the BBB went well, sorry, I was at another event that day. We are planning the next SunDay Challenge. Question Is 35 miles to far for your cars to drive.? What about 47 miles.? 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If you have received this email in error, please delete the email and notify me or the system manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this email was sent to you by a mailing-list, and if you want to be removed from the list, notify William Young to remove you from the list. ********************************************************************** Charles Whalen wrote: > Ditto and second that on what a great event it was and many thanks to > Shawn, > Matt, Lowell, Bob, their respective wives, and everyone who helped to make > it such an excellent event! > > As long as we're on the subject of politics (from the previous post > below), > in addition to also seconding the point that I myself too had some good > discussions about Ron Paul at the event, I would also like to mention that > we had a Congressional candidate at the event, Paul Renneisen, who > actually > formally announced his candidacy and kicked off his campaign at the event. > Paul is an American Airlines captain who lives in Ft. Lauderdale, flies > out > of Miami Airport, and drives a Toyota RAV4-EV as his primary > transportation > and daily commuter. Captain Renneisen has managed to get his RAV4-EV > designated as the official electric car of Miami International Airport and > is working on getting us a charging station there. He is running in the > August 2008 Democratic primary race for Florida's 22nd Congressional > District, encompassing most of Broward and Palm Beach Counties, against > incumbent Democratic Congressman Ron Klein. If elected, Paul would be the > first ever US Congressman who drives an electric vehicle. > > I am not going to violate the long-respected apolitical/non-political > tradition of civil EV discussion nor offend anyone's intelligence or > sensibilities here by urging anyone to vote one way or another for any > particular candidate, but as Glenn did in his post below regarding Ron > Paul's presidential candidacy, I would just like to call your attention to > EV driver Paul Renneisen's Congressional candidacy and, if you live in > either Broward or Palm Beach County, ask that you give him a look and > check > out his campaign website at: > > http://www.renneisen2008.com/ > > If you have any interest in discussing Paul Renneisen's candidacy or > political issues thereabouts, you can communicate with Paul directly > (privately, off-list please) at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks & best regards, > > Charles Whalen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Glenn Kellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:49 PM > Subject: [FLEAA] Great time at BBB! > > Hi Folks, > > Just wanted to say what a great time I had at the BBB, Thanks to Shawn, > his wife and everyone who made it possible and the great success it was! > Thanks for the great effort! > > Hope to see you all at the club meeting in Feb. > > Besides talking about electric vehicles and clean energy at the meet I > had some good conversations with a lot of folks about Ron Paul. I won't > flood the list with political posts, but if you are interested in Dr. > Paul's position on energy please check out his energy policy statement at: > > <http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/energy/> > > The primary is Tuesday, cast your vote! > > Best regards, Glenn Kellis > > > _______________________________________________ > Florida EAA mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.floridaeaa.org > > > _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
