Ok, so if the 300 miles is an exaggeration by the builder, let's get back to the basics, the 50-150 mile/charge commuter car was here with the (edit: second gen. ev1) ev2 (75-150 miles/charge depending on conditions) in the late 1990's.
Here is some quotes from an article I posted awhile back:
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"The shop on Jefferson Boulevard where Gadget has lived and worked for the last 13 years is a tangle of metal parts congregated for projects past and future: the old chassis of a Burning Man art car here, the shell of a boat that once roamed Black Rock City there. At the center hangs a trapezelike object useful for pull-ups, and there are rows of metal boxes and batteries in various states of rehabilitation. Near the waiting vehicles is a neat little display of the insides that Left Coast Conversions drops into each of its autos — “remanufactured,” in California legal terms, as full-fledged battery-powered vehicles. Gadget opens a small aluminum box, about 2 feet square, to reveal a radiator loaded with pale-green antifreeze about one-twenty-fourth the size of the one in your internal-combustion-engine car’s, and a small green box labeled “Zilla” — one of Otmar Ebenhoech’s controllers, a small computer 10,000 times as juiced as the one that sits on your desktop. The whole contraption attaches by four cables to the car: two to the motor, two to the battery, plus two thin wires that run power to the vehicle’s auxiliary systems, like fans, lights and stereo.
“It’s simple,” Gadget assures me.
“Simple enough that I could do it?”
“You need to know how to do a little welding,” he advises, and promises to teach me the next time I come by........
"But lithium costs exponentially more. “With a lead-acid battery pack,” Wilson says, “if you spend $1,500, you get a range of 25 miles; with nickel-metal hydride, for $6,000 you get a range of 60 to 100. With lithium, you spend $20,000, but [get a] 200-mile range. Lithiums are bitchin’, but they’re just not really available yet (my note: 2006 article). So everybody’s stuck with lead-acid batteries.”
laweekly.com
So we know that commuter range ev's have been a reality since the late 1990's, and that commuter range phev's have been viable for several years, and that higher range commuter ev's can be a reality right now made possible by the economies of scale of the big guys (Tesla shows the technical feasibility, but do not have economy of scale).
So you stopped by once before and dodged questions, and then returned and dumped some more of you misdirection disinformation, again, I do not expect any sort of realistic assesment from you. |
