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What to do with a perfectly good electric car...
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I'm assuming those are the GM EV-1 or whatever it was called that despite enviromentalist pleeding not to destory and junk them before their time is up (which alone is a totally waste) GM did it anyways to keep the technology from 8 years ago away from competators. The bad thing about electric vehicles like those is that we still get over a 1/4 of our energy from coal burn plants that are about as old as the oldest person living today with the cleaning technology that the turn of the century mandated so yeah the car might not technically produce polutants but the plants generating the power are. Since you live out in the sunshine state why don't you work on inventing solar car ports. Put one at work and one at home and you should be able to generate enough juice not to need to plug an electric car in more than a trickle charge every couple of days. Don't know where to find a site on building an electric vehicle but from what I've heard the city car is a very good start/design esp when you update 'em. Can easily be bought on ebay for under a grand with dead batteries. Otherwise, I'd look for a Subie 360 or something REALLY light not the golf you spoke of.
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If you mounted a wind turbine generator on the roof and got a good downhill start wouldn't the wind from forward travel generate the electricity needed to maintain speed? How about taller tires in the rear so the car always runs downhill?
Hmmm.... a wind powered generator on the roof to provide the juice needed by the leaf blower supercharger? Sorry, just a feeble mind running amuck. Gotta go pack for a week of training in Indy. Electronics this time around. Kind of like a mini vacation at a time share sale. A few hours a day listening to the spiel then free food, drinks and hotel.
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