Electric Cars

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:30 pm

Here's an electric car from 1913 ...

Here's an electric car coming out in 2007 (Tesla Roadster) ...

Electric motor produces 248 horsepower
Zero to sixty mph in four seconds
Top speed is expected to exceed 130 mph
Electric motor maximum speed at 13,500 rpm
Claimed range of about 250 miles
A full charge is expected to take about three hours
Batteries are good for 500 recharges, or approximately 100K miles

They're finally starting to make them attractive and sporty. Now they only need to work on getting the price down to something less than $100K

http://autos.msn.com/as/minishow/articl ... Pebble2006

Don

WickedFZR1K · Post by **WickedFZR1K** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:40 pm

Interesting and cool looking car (both of them actually cause I like old stuff too). I wonder if it would be possible for them to create a generator system that could put out more power than is consumed at highway sopeed, so they range would be more...

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:47 am

I wonder if it would be possible for them to create a generator system that could put out more power than is consumed at highway sopeed, so they range would be more...

Uh....
Um....
That would be perpetual motion

Post by **FZRDude** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:38 am

WickedFZR1K wrote:...I wonder if it would be possible for them to create a generator system that could put out more power than is consumed...

Free power? More than likely not. Automakers like their $$$

ExupElvis · Post by **ExupElvis** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:51 pm

WickedFZR1K wrote:I wonder if it would be possible for them to create a generator system that could put out more power than is consumed at highway sopeed, so they range would be more...

That is the major principle of hybrid technology.
It isn't possible to generate more power than is consumed, but it certaintly is possible to recapture engery during braking.
A motor is either a motor or a generator depending on weather it's driving or being driven.
Pretty simple concept really. The troubles have been how to get all that to work with the new ceramic/brushless A/C armature motors and the controllers they require.
Batteries and energy storage are a whole 'nother can 'O worms.
Electrics aren't yet able to come close to what hydrocarbon energy can do on that.
We'll get to perpetual motion about the same time we learn to displace gravity.
That will be a paradigm shift.
Still, the car pictured looks a bit more sexy than GM's EV-1.......