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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?"
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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (10)9/4/2006 1:29:40 PM
From: Don Earl  Read Replies (1) of 17506
 
I was doing some looking, and as close as I can remember, the car I described in the previous post had to have been the EV1, which means I was off by a good decade as far as when I thought I had seen it. I know I saw it before the first production in 1996, but it was probably more like a year or two before that when I saw the display.

RE: "You have 4 wheels that turn at high speed and those wheels could generate electricity using a similar device to recharge and lengthen the battery time."

If I'm not mistaken, regenerative braking has been used, where the energy from braking is turned back into electricity. You wouldn't want to use it when you're driving as the resistance from generating power at the wheels would just take more power to push the car.

When I was a kid, you could buy solar batteries as a novelty at places like Radio Shack. One of my most prized possessions at the time was a solar battery that was about an inch and a half square that would run a transistor radio. That would have to have been close to 40 years ago and I guess it's still a mystery to me why more hasn't been done with solar power since then.

It seems to me there's a lot of old technology around that never gets any new R&D. Come to think of it, I can't recall the last time I heard a story about anyone with a backyard shop inventing anything. It's like the creativity that was once a defining characteristic of the American culture is a thing of the past.
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