ZAMM is a great book, we decidedly have the same cultural references Jones :-)
This electric car doesn't look too bad either does it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightspeed_X1 "0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) ~ 3.0 seconds... Range >160 km (>100 miles) in urban use" Whenever you go out of town, you'd better take your genset trailer along for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genset_trailer "One such trailer is the AC Propulsion backtracking Long Ranger range extending gas fueled trailer, making it a gas-electric series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. This trailer used a 500 cc Kawasaki engine with a 9.5 gallons (40 liter) fuel tank and achieved 30 to 35 mpg (6.72 to 7.84 litres/100 km). It's rated at 20 kW DC output and can maintain 60 to 80 mph (95 to 128 km/h)." I find the all-electric + (ideally biodiesel powered) genset trailer combination much better than hybrid, because the ICE bit must only provide _average_ power (~1/3 of peak power) so it's only a small engine, which moreover you only carry along when you need it, i.e. only occasionally, and only until battery filling/swapping stations will be widespread which could be fairly soon: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/technology/29agassi.html?ex=1194408000&en=282267366fd1b8e0&ei=5070&emc=eta1 Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vortex" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:55 PM Subject: [Vo]:Zenn and the Art of.... > It is recent ABC coverage of the EEStor/ Zenn - and the widely anticipated > new "bettery" offering. > Not a bad looking little auto either. > > http://tinyurl.com/2mpklf
