Re: [EVDL] Citicars and Bob Rice (was Re: EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20170101)

[Lee Hart via EV]

Rick Beebe via EV wrote:

It was fun watching the youtube video linked off that page and seeing
Bob again... Watching the next video that Youtube popped up "Citicar
Cruise to Bob's", it struck me that my other car--a Smart ED--is pretty
much the modern day version of the Citicar. It even has plastic body panels.


Yes indeed. The Pivco CitiBee is another example that carried this work 
forward.


Bob's whole point was that the perfect is the enemy of the good. You can 
do 80% of the job for 20% of the cost. And that 80% is good enough to 
make a fine daily driver.


KISS -- Keep It Simple, Stupid. Make it easy to build, easy to fix. Get 
off the merry-go-round of expensive cars that depreciate fast, wear out, 
and you can't fix. Save your money for more important things.


--
Teaching children to program goes against the grain of modern education.
Just imagine the chaos if they learned to think logically, plan, create,
implement, test, and execute!
--
Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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[EVDL] Citicars and Bob Rice (was Re: EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20170101)

[Rick Beebe via EV]

It was fun watching the youtube video linked off that page and seeing 
Bob again. The white pickup truck featured in that video that Bob helped 
Dave Oliveria build now sits proudly in my driveway. I reconverted it to 
LiFePo4 and ended up replacing everything except the motor, controller 
and vacuum pump. I also helped a little bit with Mike Okrent's red S-10 
which is also shown in the video.


Watching the next video that Youtube popped up"Citicar Cruise to Bob's", 
it struck me that my other car--a Smart ED--is pretty much the modern 
day version of the Citicar. It even has plastic body panels.


--Rick

BobBeaumont was the car dealer and money man -- he knew marketing and


sales.BobRicewas the engineer that actually designed and built them
-- he had already been building and selling EV prototypes for years.

There's more aboutBobRice, and a picture of his 1964 "Electroliner" EV
at .


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