[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Rick Vargo]

Unfortunately with todays technology you are going to have to spend a
few hours at the recharging station if you are on a trip with an all
electric car. This is it's big drawback. Ultra-capacitors will rectify
this...

If anybody is interested. All current non flex-fuel cars can run up to
50% alcohol/gasoline mixture without hurting their cars and for a couple
hundred dollar computer add-on, can run 100% alcohol fuel (or 100%
gasoline if on a trip). Then you can get a simple permit to make your
own E85 fuel in your back yard. It ends up costing about $1 a gallon for
fuel and you are not paying the oil companies a cent. Check out
http://www.alcoholisagas.com/

Rick


Collin Kidder wrote:
> Jay.Hollinger at L-3com.com wrote:
>   
>> http://www.mdi.lu/english/
>>
>> Not a hoax…
>>
>> (as long as we’re not talking about a -flying- air car)
>>
>> But as with most ‘alternative’ energy sources – there is an 
>> infrastructure problem… What ‘gas-station’ is going to install an air 
>> compressor with only one or two of these cars in an area? Same with 
>> other types of compressed fuels (CNG, Hydrogen, etc…)… So not only do 
>> we have to try to make something safe – but realistic. I have hopes 
>> for a lot of these alternatives – may the best one win! J
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>     
>
> That's why electric will win. It's the easiest to retrofit into our 
> existing infrastructure. The idea Michael originally had and I expanded 
> upon would create fill up stations out of normal buildings. I really 
> cannot see a much easier or more convenient form of power distribution.
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