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Microcap & Penny Stocks : BAAT - world records for electric vehicles with zinc-air -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Odell who wrote (1433)	2/11/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: shashyazhi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

If you think that what BAT did was some kind of trickery, let me explain to you how some mileage records have been set in the past. With the accelerator pumps removed from the carburetors to avoid squirting fuel into the engine, test drivers would accelerate, full throttle to 35 mph, push in the clutch, switch off the ignition, and coast down to 5 mph, at which time they would turn on the ignition, pop the clutch, accelerate to 35 mph and repeat the process. All this is easy on gas, but it is hell on the drive train! Other test drivers would place an egg between their foot and the gas pedal to remind them to tread gently on the go pedal. And of course economy run drivers would always coast down any hill they could in neutral. I didn't see any eggshells on the floor or anybody popping the clutch either. The lap times were very consistent. On an oval course there is no way to use gravity to an advantage more than once. I thought that the test was very well run, and I never expected them to run the tires at normal inflation pressures. I expected 50 psi, and that is what was verified. Any tester would do that. Now if they wanted to duct tape all of the gaps between body panels to decrease drag, they could have done that, but I think that would have been very noticeable. Another thing that should be noted was the fact that three different drivers got mileages that were only 3.3 % apart. And two runs were only 0.5% apart, proving that the car was doing all that it could do under varying conditions of temperature, wind, and humidity.