[NSRCA-discussion] For Electric eyes only.. lol

[Rex]

They should be nervous....  One fireman I talked to, said that a couple have already died...  they touched

the wrecked vehicle and got shocked!   There has already been a bunch of required design changes to allow 

for cutting circuits from outside the vehicle in the event of a crash.  Use your imagination as to how many 

points of access might be needed!  If you come upon an electric vehicle crash, and you hear the electric 

rotor turning, Don't Touch!  You could very well become the ground wire!

 

Rex
 


Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:25:40 -0500
From: khoard at gmail.com
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] For Electric eyes only.. lol

I was talking to a fireman a few days ago. . . . they are very nervous about electric / hybrid cars from a safety point of view.  

Would you want to be cutting into a car with the Jaws of Life knowing that somewhere in the twisted wreckage is a 400S-20P Thunder Power LiPo??  Even if the batts are A123's, you still have some very large current carrying wires flopping around somewhere.

But hey, we're in a planetary emergency, right??


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, <rcmaster199 at aol.com> wrote:

Indeed!!! I like what Tesla Motors have done with their sports coupe. With minimal weight in the 300 hp motor (I've read the motor weighs 75#s...wow!!)and no real transmission, the car can be made light. I've also read that batteries are not complete losses when they lose cells. Only the bad cells get replaced which keeps repair cost down. I like that aspect of these cars a lot. And the 200-250 mile range on a charge also works just great with simple overnight recharge cycles.

The price tag is the only thing that doesn't compute. Hopefully that will come down as more people buy into this "new" technology. IF I won the lottery I would buy one or three.

These are not your every day golf cart types, by any stretch.

Every one should know that Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil (duh!! make spark ignition practical), but did you know he invented the electric motor? (Among many other things that have revolutionized every day life). The more I read about this man the more in awe I am

MattK

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From: krishlan fitzsimmons <homeremodeling2003 at yahoo.com>
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Sent: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 2:36 pm
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] For Electric eyes only.. lol

Not exactly planes, but for those of us that like E stuff, here is some interesting video's.
Watch 2 and 3's video's.
http://gas2.org/2009/03/29/worlds-top-10-fastest-electric-cars/

Next time I'm at the track and there
's an E car there, I think I'll put my money on it.
Technology is amazing!



Chris          


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