Electric cars?
February 25th, 2010
lew asked:
I live in the uk, where there is a lot of talk about introducing new electric cars in place of petrol/diesel fueled cars.
I live in the uk, where there is a lot of talk about introducing new electric cars in place of petrol/diesel fueled cars.
I recently read about an electric Range rover and was wondering, do these electric cars offer less performance than petrol/diesel models?
February 28th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
What do you mean by performance? Check out teslamotors. They make an electric sports car based on the Lotus Elise. It’s very fast and gets 200+ miles per charge.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Electric and petrol cars perform about the same except that electric cars accelerate a little slower. However, since electric cars are powered by a motor and not an engine they don’t have gears and dont need to shift which makes a lot smoother ride and a very constant accelleration with no shift shock.
March 5th, 2010 at 1:49 am
there have been electric cars that could happily drive at 100mph if you so wished.
Performance has not been the problem, for getting an electric car into production in the past
The main problem was the Oil companies bought up the patents…. It was not in the interests of the Oil Companies to mass produce a car with no need of oil.
But times are changing. We will soon see cars on our roads, with no emissions, some form of car that self charges as you drive.
The technology already exists, dynamos on the axles, solar panels, storage cells are getting more and more efficient.
new super bright LEDs on all the lights will reduce battery drain. The car will be lighter, new alloys and carbon plastics can be as strong as steel.
Imagine an all electric car with lower running cost, lower insurance and tax, perhaps even lower parking costs.
So if you want to see the cars sooner, make the politicians work , All new cars could be electric in less than 10 years, less than 5 if we push the governments and companies to do it.
So whats next????
Electric powered Aircraft? and pollution free skies
Lets make it happen
March 7th, 2010 at 11:50 am
It all boils down to how the car is built. You put in the good stuff you’ll out accelerate any gas car to 60 MPH. There are several videos on you-tube of the Wright X1 blowing away Ferrari’s and Porsche’s on the drag strip. Gas cars will eventually catch up tough and reach a higher top speed. But I ask, what good is being able to go 100 MPH if the speed limit is 60?
The Tesla Roadster was specifically designed to dispel the myths that electric cars are slow and don’t go very far. It can go 220 miles on a charge with normal driving and hit a top speed of 125 MPH. There is only one production car that can beat the Tesla to 60 MPH and it costs $1.2 million and is made by Bugatti I think it has a 1000 HP engine.
The only limitation on an electric car is its batteries. You put in crappy batteries, you get crappy performance.