Neil Smalley

For all you city, drivers here a car that will obliterate 99% of the cars on the road at a traffic light GP.

It's a single seat ELECTRIC Car which will do 60 in less than 4 seconds and a Qtr mile in 12 seconds



http://www.pistonheads.com/fastcars/...p?storyId=3468

The Company's website is at http://www.commutercars.com/


[Edited by Neil Smalley - 12/14/2001 9:01:10 AM]

chiark

The joy of electric motors - wide power band...

This has got to be the way forward, unfortunately. However, it does just move the pollution problem back to the power generation. Still, with the world's largest windfarm being constructed on one of the Scottish isles, perhaps the UK is taking this seriously at last?

But does it go *BWAAAAAARP* (*pop*)?

Nick.

Toerag

It's better to pass the responsibility for power generation onto the power companies as they are much more efficient. And there should be windfarms everywhere. Perhaps someone should invent a way of using rain power, that would solve all our problems!!

Jerome

It was in the press recently that Scotland could provide 75% of Britains power with the use of wind farms etc. Still wouldn't pass over an "old fashioned" internal combustion vehicle for a souped up hair dryer...

[Edited by Jerome - 12/14/2001 10:02:28 AM]

Reffro

Erm, internal combustion enigines are far more thermally efficient than any power station, and when was the last time you saw a power station with a catalytic converter. Allied to the fact that the electicity they generate would not be fully converted to power for the car due to transmission losses, inefficient motors,etc. Electric cars are a nice idea as they move the source of pollution but they do not lessen any pollution it will increase, they just take it out of towns and put in the rest of the country.

Mildo

Some coal-fired power stations have flue gas desulphurisation (FGD)- basically a big catalytic convertor. However, it's expensive to use and that cost is added to the electricity price, so power companies will prefer to use non-FGD units instead.

Wind farms are the way forward, but they often fall victim to NIMBYs.

You can't please all of the people....

ozzy

If anyone sticks a windfarm anywhere in my area, I'll be out with the oxy/acetylene torch quick style. Last thing I want is the Scottish countryside covered with those bloody things.

The Lake District is just as windy; why don't they use it ?

Or build some huge floating platform out at sea - they can stick as many as they want on that.

Stefan

Dave P

If the government were really serious about this they would insist that all new houses built had solar tiles.

Dave

chiark

Dave - it used to be the case that it took more energy to create a solar panel than the solar panel would ever deliver in its life... That may be old technology though, admittedly!

I would personally like to see more clean energy sources, be that a wave chamber or wind farm on a local hill. It's a lot more environmentally friendly than a sodding great chimney stack.

Re: Lake District. They have Sellafield in the neighbourhood... I think they're sort of "energied out".

John Stevenson

Toerag, rain power !! I beleive theuy use it to fill reservoirs and call it Hydro-Electricity !!
Now all we have to do is find somewhere it rain a lot ???

---john---

chiark

John, patent this idea! I'm sure that it may just work in Wales! Go on, get down that patent office!

You could use a reservoir to drive a water turbine! It might just work