Eco Car

Real quick, I believe that car makers are too SLOW.?

They say “the nation’s infrastructure can’t support their new technology.” That’s explicative. I know that people can convert a diesel engine to run on biodiesel. Well I want to convert a caravan to an electric motor… Is this a pipe dream for me? I’m not an engineer, but I am mechanically inclined. Does a convertor kit exist or do I need to beg outside the Tesla motors plant?

The only technology that has infrastructure problems is Hydrogen.

The clear problem for Electric Vehicles is batteries. The Tesla strapped over 6,000 batteries togethers, which doesn't sound safe or reliable to me.

The lowest estimated cost I've seen for a battery that will run an EV at anything close to internal combustion convenience is over $10,000.

There's not many that will take a $10k hit yet. At $4/gallon the average driver (and electric rate) would save a bit over $2,000/yr.

The first big hope I have for a car is the Chevy Volt. It's a pure EV, with a generator on board. The batteries are in place that will last 10 yrs without dropping the range significantly.

A123/continental and CPI/LG are the two battery producers that are testing packs. The first mule, an existing Monte Carlo fitted with all the electronic equipment and batteries, has already met all the goals they had for the car.

The big advantage to the Volt is that there's no loss of convenience whatsover. You can drive it just like you drove every other car you've owned. The only real difference will be that, if you want, you can plug in the car at night and then drive for a 1/4 of the cost at current prices.

The Electric Sports Car (Tesla Motors)

Tesla $166.25 Tesla

The Illustrated Tesla by Tesla, Nikola [Paperback] $33.79 Collected here are twenty of Nikola Teslas essays, letters, and speeches all with figures. In total there are some 214 figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they were intended to be read. Included are A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination; Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency; On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Suns Energy; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; Famous Scientific Illusions; Electrical Oscillators; and many many more Author: Tesla, Nikola Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 2007/08/07 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.75 inches

The Illustrated Tesla by Tesla, Nikola [Hardcover] $63.71 Collected here are twenty of Nikola Teslas essays, letters, and speeches all with figures. In total there are some 214 figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they were intended to be read. Included are A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination; Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency; On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Suns Energy; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; Famous Scientific Illusions; Electrical Oscillators; and many many more Author: Tesla, Nikola Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 2007/08/07 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.93 inches

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General Motors Ev1 $92.4 The General Motors EV1 was an electric car produced and leased by the General Motors Corporation from 1996 to 1999. It was the first massproduced and purposedesigned electric vehicle of the modern era from a major automaker, and the first GM car designed to be an electric vehicle from the outset. The decision to massproduce an electric car came after GM received a favorable reception for its 1990 Impact electric concept car, upon which the design of the EV1 drew heavily. Inspired partly by the Impacts perceived potential for success, the California Air Resources Board subsequently passed a mandate that made the production and sale of zeroemission vehicles a requirement for the seven major automakers selling cars in the United States to continue to market their vehicles in California Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 110 Publication Date: 2009/11/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.26 inches

Who Killed the Electric Car? $76.47 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the early 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 110 Publication Date: 2010/05/19 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.26 inches

General Motors Precept $66.91 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The General Motors Precept was a 2000 low emission vehicle concept car aimed at meeting the 80 mpgUS (2.9 L/100 km; 96 mpgimp) fuel economy goal of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles between the US Government and GM, Ford, and Chrysler. GM was able to meet the 80 mpgUS (2.9 L/100 km; 96 mpg imp) fuel economy goal with the Precept, creating versions using Lithium and NiMH batteries with diesel, fuel cell and other hybrid version of the car. GM ended the project in 2000, claiming no one would be interested in buying a high fuel economy vehicle. The nearterm PNGV program, introduced during the Clinton Administration, was terminated by the Bush administration and replaced with the distant goals of the FreedomCAR vehicle program. The Precept was never designed for production, but some of the ideas may have found their way into GMs dualmode hybrid system. The Precept used two 35 kW electric motors, one on the front axle and one on the rear axle. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Publication Date: 2010/07/02 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.21 inches

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American Motors $70.1 American Motors Corporation (AMe was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of NashKelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company at the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history. American Motors (AMe purchased Kaisers Jeep operations in 1970 with Jeeps utility vehicles complementing AMCs passenger car business. AMC partnered with Frances Renault, from 1980 to 1987, when Chrysler purchased AMC. Both AMC and Renault brands ceased in the United States, while Jeep and some Eagle models continued under Chrysler. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/07/29 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.22 inches

Saehan Motors $79.66 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Saehan Motor Company was a SouthKorean car maker founded in 1976, part of the Saehan Corporations, which was born on the collaboration of Shinjin Industrial Company and the will of General Motors to introduce their products on the South Korean market. Saehan was born on the former General Motors Korea, which encountered difficulties when the SouthKorean market collapsed, following the first round of oil rises in 1973. This jointventure, 5050 between GM and Shinjin, consisted on a car assembly plant in Bupyong, a truck assembly plant in Pusan and a foundry at Inchon. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 114 Publication Date: 2010/08/16 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.27 inches

Hindustan Motors $82.85 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Hindustan Motors is an automobile manufacturer from India. It is part of the Birla Technical Services industrial group. The company was the largest car manufacturer in India before the rise of Maruti Udyog. It is the producer of the Ambassador car, widely used as a taxicab and as a government limousine. This car is based on the Morris Oxford, a British car that dates back to 1954. One of the original three car manufacturers in India, founded in 1942 by Mr. B.M. Birla, it was a leader in car sales until the 1980s, when the industry was opened up from protection. It began in Port Okha near Gujarat, and in 1948, moved to Uttarpara, West Bengal. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Publication Date: 2010/08/03 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches

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Study of Electric Motors by Experiment .. $25.29 Author: St John, Thomas M. B. 1865 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2010/09/04 Language: English Dimensions: 7.44 x 9.69 x 0.28 inches

Vector Motors $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Vector Motors Corporation is an automobile manufacturer originally based in Wilmington, California. Its history can be traced to Vehicle Design Force, which was founded in 1978 by Gerald Wiegert. Vehicle production began in 1989 and ceased in the 1990s. The company was recently revived (as Vector Motors Corporation), and is currently developing a new supercar. Vector is credited by some as Americas first attempt to compete with European performance car manufacturers like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Lotus. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/07/30 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.22 inches

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Jensen Motors $68.51 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Jensen Motors, Ltd was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles, based in West Bromwich (in the West Midlands west of Birmingham). Jensen began as a small coachbuilding firm run by brothers Richard and Allan Jensen; they bought out the body works of W.J. Smiths Sons where they worked after the owners death and renamed it Jensen Motors in 1934. They built exclusive customised bodies for standard cars produced by several manufacturers of the day including Morris, Singer, Standard, and Wolseley. In 1934 they were commissioned by American film actor Clark Gable to design and build a car for him based on a Ford V8 chassis. The resultant car won them much acclaim and stimulated huge interest in their work including a deal with Ford to produce a run of JensenFords with Jensen bodywork on a Ford chassis. In 1934 they also started to design their first true production car under the name White Lady. This evolved into the Jensen Stype which went into production in 1935. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 84 Publication Date: 2010/07/03 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.20 inches