The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: September 8, 2006

263 comments on DrumBeat: September 8, 2006

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odograph on September 8, 2006 - 9:22am

Not sure if this is a repeat, but I just tripped over this other electric car yesterday:

http://www.universalelectricvehicle.com/

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gettingwarm on September 8, 2006 - 9:48am

Odograph - I don't think we have seen graphs from you or Stuart Staniford in a while.

I long for graphs of undulating plateaus. We seem to have more recent IEA and EIA data without any pretty pictures.

Too many words and too few graphs!

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odograph on September 8, 2006 - 9:52am

I'm afraid I'm a graphics (and data analysis) consumer. I appreciate all presented here at TOD but rarely have anything to add to the math/modeling discussions.

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OkraWhiskey on September 8, 2006 - 9:56am

Gack! $69,995.00 for the Spyder. I'm hoping to be able to afford something like this.

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jmygann on September 8, 2006 - 10:52am

This is what I use ...

http://tinyurl.com/o2jqk

Another avenue is these ...
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Xebra_EV/

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Valuethinker on September 8, 2006 - 10:35am

http://www.goingreen.co.uk/

They are proliferating like wildfire here.

They are made in Bangalore (although apparently a different model to the one there). Cost about £7,950.

Major pluses for a London driver:

avoid the congestion charge (£10/day or USD $18) levied from 7am to 7pm to cross into Central London (roughly Zone 1 on the Tube map)
4 hours free parking in Westminster (West End) but try convincing the rapacious meter readers of that!

Major structural problem:

Londonders don't have garages, and if they do, there are no engine block heater points (vs. say Alberta or Minnesota)
running an extension cord out of your house to repower you car would be illegal

BTW sorry you closed your blog down.

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super390 on September 8, 2006 - 2:20pm

Here's another one annouced for the end of the year.

http://www.tomberlin.net/tag/a-features.html

It's an NEV, regulated to only 25 mph, but 42 horsepower is not insubstantial. The last I heard the street price will be $6900. Tomberlin seems to have its products made in China, based on the website. I might go for this one if there was a big enough tax credit.

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Wharf Rat on September 8, 2006 - 7:07pm

I saw something on the highway today that looked like this or the Nissan Hypermini. It was headed the other way, so I didn't get a chance to check it out, but it looked to be traveling at a suitable speed. Didn't even get a chance to count the number of wheels. Could have been ZAP.
But, small? Don't even think about surviving an accident. Up here, you wouldn't even want to use it at night, cuz hitting a deer would kill ya.

http://alan.batie.org/ev.html

Rat

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capslock on September 8, 2006 - 8:30pm

I like three-wheelers. One of my neighbors has a Corbin with noisy bearings. Safer than a motorcycle. They're classified by the NHTSA as a motorcycle, so they aren't subject to the American byzantine automobile safety laws.

The rear wheel can be the drive wheel and powered by chain, like a motorcycle. I've daydreamed about taking a VW beetle front end, a Harley rear-end, an electric motor and a 12hp Yanmmar diesel to drive the charging system for a plug-in hybrid.

Ever seen a three-wheel Morgan from the 1930s?

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