OrionWorks wrote:
See:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/08/14/electric.cars/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/6d5hrz
Convert your gas guzzler into an electric.
If ya got $12,000 to fritter away, go for it!
Hey hey back up a little, it's cheaper than it sounds -- it actually says:
The whole conversion, including the truck, cost him about $12,000,
which parts dealers say is about standard.
Note that phrase "*including the truck*" -- part of the $12,000 went to
purchase a "glider" to use for the conversion.
That means he spent $12,000 *net* to obtain an electric vehicle -- it
doesn't mean he "traded" his old gas-powered truck into the bargain!
And $12,000 for an extremely economical pickup truck doesn't sound so
bad these days.
* * *
Gotta love reporters, they always sound so knowledgeable until the
moment when something betrays the fundamentally parrot-like quality of
most of the technical details. I really liked this bit:
"Other components such as a fuel injector were replaced with their
electric counterparts..."
What the dickens is the "electric counterpart" to a fuel injector?
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BTW our electric car is currently in the shop with a sprained ankle -- a
ball joint disintegrated going around a corner. Methinks the former
owner may have forgotten about the fact that even if you never have to
change the oil after the conversion, getting an occasional grease job is
maybe not such a bad idea...
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks
