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Somehow I don't think it will have the unique sound you get with an inline 6 and a set of Fentons and dual exhaust...

ptv, good point. I have often thought there could be a market for an after market sound maker to mimic the sound of a gasoline engine. Sound would vary with engine speed. Take your pick of sound: Ferrari, Mustang, Jag, etc. Plus, it would add a safety factor as the electric motor vehicles are very quiet and pedestrians are not always when one is approaching.

I'm guessing this car can not be brought back to original without major $$.
Maybe this one would be candidate for electrocution, or defibrillator?


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I would go hydrogen .. My dad always talked about a single cell for his 12.

Pack Don. I brought up motor v engine few years ago.

Even wrote Leno about it. He caught himself sometimes. Now he will still refers to an engine as a motor.

This ev is b.s. for low income. Look at the cost of batteries...

Then what pay hazard fee to get rid of them .
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The big push for solar. You only get 20 percent use out of them.. And that's high end panels..

Environmentalists. Have just f.d up this country.

Lacquer.. It evaporates.. It's gone.. It's not in the atmosphere.. The smell is not. Hazardous. Off gazing . it's evaporating..

I'm with you Riki....

An article I was reading ask how CA was going to recharge all these electric cars when it can't keep the lights and ac on as it is?

On the bright side, when your classic car catches fire it won't be from a fuel leak.

I regularly drive a 100 year old car. It's been completely reliable, even though I often drive it 50 miles or more at a stretch, and often at higher speeds than it was designed to operate at. It's an old cheap Ford. It's lots of fun to drive. I have a choice of several ways to start it, and, often as not, all that's needed to start it is to simply trun the key to "BAT", and the engine starts instantly.

Battery dead? No problem. Turn the key to "MAG" and give the crank a yank and off you go.

BTW, a Triumph can be made to run reliabley.

PS: Almost anytime an electric car is being charged, the power is coming from a combustion process. All primary poower sources have an environmental cost; often a very high and on-going cost.

A lot of power is wasted on its way from the primary source to the electric car or other point of use.


I could probably run a small electric car exclusively on power from my wind power plant ... most of the time. No wind today, so no power. A LARGE battery bank would help with that, at great expense.

My outfit will make 20 KW + on a breezy day. Average output is substantially lower. Average output, less losses in conversion and reconversion and in the devices being powered, take a huge bite out of total power produced. A battery bank and related equipment would add more losses.

This plant is "grid-tied" and has no storage capacity. No wind, no power.
If the grid fails, the plant shuts down instantly and remains down until the grid power is restored.

Cost? Don't ask. I will tell you this: "Free power", from any source derived, is BRUTALLY EXPENSIVE.

Shifting costs and shifting negative impacts does not eliminate them, and it usually magnifies them.

I built a Triumph TR-7 electric in 2008 This is the text from a local newspaper that did a story on it.


GREENSBORO — When gas prices began soaring a year ago, metal sculptor Lawrence Feir took matters into his own hands.

“I decided I just wasn’t going to wait for a big car company to build an electric car and put it up for sale,” Feir said.

So the founder of Innovation Robotics converted his 1980 Triumph TR7 sports car from a gas-powered car to an all-electric car.

He removed the original gasoline engine and transmission to replace them with two electric motors. The car doesn’t run on gas, but his Dodge pickup does: it requires $136 to fill the tank with fuel.

Feir plugs the electric car into a standard outlet to charge. Its nine golf cart batteries take 4 to 6 hours to refresh, he said.

His days of waiting for the hydrogen car of the future are over.

“I’m driving this car today — right now,” he said. “It’s a practical solution for a real problem right now.”

The car, however, is built just for everyday commuting around town. It runs for 45 miles between recharges and reaches a top speed of 45 miles per hour.

Feir has a knack for building. He learned a thing or two from his father Jack B. Feir, an aeronautical engineer, and worked as an auto body mechanic before starting Innovation Robotics eight years ago.

“When I was a kid, I always tinkered around with stuff,” Feir said. “I’d take my toys apart and fix stuff.”

He took the same approach with building his new creation.

Feir bought the car online for $200 last year, then he removed the engine and sold it for the same price.

He researched other manufacturers’ methods online and built additions to the car from salvaged parts, testing the car along the way.

“It takes a little experimenting to come up with the ‘Goldilocks solution,’ — not too hot, not too cold, but just right,” he said.

Two weeks ago the car wouldn’t pull out of the driveway, he said.

Feir slept through his frustration, woke up the next morning and switched parts around until he found the sixth and final configuration.

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The batteries are the weak link in this conversion. Better batteries could dramatically reduce weight while increasing on-demand power and reserve power. For his next project, I suggest repowering the car
in a hybrid configuration. Get about 175 HP on tap and much more versatility.

Back in the day, lead acid was pretty much the only viable option.