I REALLY want one!!!

[MonzaRacer]

Imagine 1 second 60 foot times.
I want!
http://electricandhybridcars.com/index.php/pages/fastestmotorcycle.html

[GBodyGMachine]

All torque.

Jeff

[WS6]

I think it was Motor Trend that had an editorial a couple months ago basically saying that silicone valley will be the ones responsible for making an electric car possible not Detroit. I couldn't agree more and that cycle is just further proof of the power and innovations that is going on with batteries.

[gsxrken]

Electric is definitely progressing. Check out www.teslamotors.com
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[Smock67]

Wow that bike is amazing.

Chris

[JMarsa]

I saw something on TV recently about the bike. It showed a video clip and there was a big explosive spark at the end of the track, they said it was the electric motor burning up.

--JMarsa

[trapin]

There’s some great stuff and it gives me hope (for the auto industry). The problem with electric cars are that they are so damn expensive. Unless someone can manufacture a safe and affordable battery system that is easily replaced and safely disposed of to protect the environment, I don’t think electric is going to be the answer. They’re doing great things with it (as evidenced by that story) but it’s the other criteria that are most important and they are no where near meeting it. I still say some sort of Bio-Diesel fuel is going to be the answer. But then again, it’s just a humble opinion.

[MonzaRacer]

Hey Tony,
Get this 98 percent of the battery material in rechargable NICad and NMHI batteries are reused, environemtally friendly wise.
I was curious and got talk to a guy who works for a recycling company and the actual loss is usally the plastics wrapping and some of the seperator materials.
But he also informed me that all parts can be reused of the batteries.
He told me one company has been remaking batteris from the old ones and the results are very good as they are using minimal new materials.
As for Bio diesel being an answer it produces some very nasty by products too.
Take this from a fella who is working on bio ethical performance parts(FlexFI) a combined effort of all non petroleum related sources and proper control of use of the present stores of fossils fuels are the only way to conserve.
My family has a family farm and noticed a better profit margin since E85 and E10 have been introduced and even Biodiesel.
while we have seen some increase in food prices from these new uses but figure this , 1000s of farms went under when we had no place to sell our agricultural commodities,,, now farming ,and doing it right can be profitably.
I only wish what my grandfather learned and practiced as a farmer could have been taught as a class to future farmers.
He raised 6 kids, had good new cars, and good equipment (not the biggest or newest but it got the job done ) and made millions over 60 yrs and NEVER went broke or bankrupt.
when he retired he leased the farm out and still worked some. now 5 of those kids, my mom included are part owners with my grandmother and the farm is still productive and hasnt ever went broke yet.
When it was first divided one of my aunts wanted out, so they all had to buy her out, as another aunt had passed away from cancer and her oldest son, my cousin had also passed from cancer, so my younger cousin as she wasnt near enough to deal with it, sold it to her dad.
Can electrics work in rural settings, no. but you could get away with a biodiesel truck or one of the electric hybrid GM trucks, even a flex fuel gasoline truck would work.
Could electric and E85 fueled vehicles help crouwded cities, yes.
Even Biodiesel can work.
But no one thing will replace the petroleum powered infrastructure but combined it would be a big dent ,guaranteed.
I hope to soon get my FlexFI up and running in prototype form and then see how well it would perform.
Amazingly enough I work in Bloomington IN and they dont have any E85 pumps but my little town of Loogootee IN (about 20 miles north of Jasper IN home of Air Ride Technoliges) has one.
The pump is 10 miles from my home but I figure if I get it finished I can deal with an extra 20 mile round trip to fuel up nad the car shouls till function well on regualr gasoline too.
Electric cars were some of the first automobiles way back in the beginning of autos so I dont see why with our current technology we cant make them work. Heck at the turn of the century(1900) there were electric cars runnign around New York, so it will work.
Take them all together and you have viable alternative forms.

[trapin]

Hey thanks for the info. I'd love to have an electric for a daily driver someday. Tired of giving all my money to Big Oil.

[Damn True]

Actually Tony, you are more than likely giving your money to "small-oil".

consider this:

The top 5 oil companies in the world are:
1. Saudi Aramco
2. National Iranian Oil Company
3. PeMEX (mexico)
4. Citgo (Venezuela)
5. Exxon/Mobil (United States)

There is only one US company even in the top 5. Exxon/Mobil produces about 90% LESS oil than Saudi Aramco and holds only a 3% GLOBAL market share.

The reason your gas prices are high and getting higher is that there are over 3000 more cars on US roads every day and there are over 500 times more vehicles on the road in China that there was just 3 years ago. The demand is up, the supply is largely stagnant. You want to be pissed at someone and I understand that. But don't be pissed at the oil companies, be pissed at those who prevent US oil companies from exploring and producing oil on our shores.

There has not been a refinery or Nuke plant built in the US in over 30 years. More nukes would mean less oil used to create electricity and more available for motor-fuel. More refineries would lower the oil companies costs and allow them to increase production and therefore supply.