[LINK] Electric vehicles and generation
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Tue Jul 25 08:36:29 AEST 2006
At 07:48 AM 7/22/2006, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>Wired got all excited about a battery powered car:
>http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=rss.index ...
Unlike the Wired fantasy, I saw a real battery
powered car in an Indian village
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/01/indian-electric-car.html>.
These are produced in Bangalore and look like
something Noddy would drive. But the company has
sporty looking show model running Linux
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/transport/reva.shtml>.
A friend of a friend put an electric motor in a
used Toyota Echo and got it registered in
Brisbane. I have suggested that cluster housing
could have solar panels to recharge such cars in
a computer scheduled car rental pool
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/sa/epod.shtml#pooling>.
Most of the major car companies have a little car
in their range which could be retrofitted with an
electric engine and batteries in this way. For
example the Toyota
Aygo/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_107>Peugeot
107/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C1>Citroën
C1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Aygo>.
This would be smarter than a Smart Car, barring
conspiracies <http://www.tomw.net.au/travel/davincicode.shtml#smartcar>.
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