 seqretsPremium
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Nederland, TX | Fastest quarter mile in an electric car! 11.86 qtr. mile
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| Re: Second Fastest quarter mile in an electric car? Here's one that's faster. 11.5 seconds in the quarter mile.
You can check youtube for more WrightspeedX1 videos. 
»www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07···r_wi.php
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Electric Car with the Real Stuff
by Christine Lepisto, Berlin on 07.16.06
Cars & Transportation
Speed. Power. The joys of eking a few more meters per liter out of a Prius is never going to make the blood race for people who live and breath speed and power. Meet the Wrigthspeed X1 prototype electric car. 0-60 in 3 seconds. Standing quarter mile in 11.5 seconds. Dusts Porsches and Ferraris in road tests. 170 mpg. Wait a minute, did you say 170 mpg?? I thought this was an electric car. Okay, it uses about 200Whr/mile for city driving. We will know green design has come of age when you can read the Watt-hours and think "oh, yeah, that's rocking". For now, the kind folks at Wrightspeed have done the math for us, based on 33,705 Watt-hours per gallon of gasoline.
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seqretsPremium
join:2001-05-03
Nederland, TX | No offense, while the X1 is impressive, I prefer the smaller, hacker, DIY'er over a prototype.
Either way you go, Electrics can kick some butt!
Just get the range up and the price down! I'm guessing that the recharging times will remain pretty static though! |
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| No offense taken.
The Big 3 should have been working on electric cars after the first gas crisis in the early 1970s. Instead they are still building dinosaurs while people like Plasma Boy and Wrightspeed are building viable alternatives.
Bravo to the electrics! |
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 Fir_Na_TineGiggity GiggityPremium
join:2001-01-03
Clementon, NJ
1 edit | said by JukeBoxHero:No offense taken. The Big 3 should have been working on electric cars after the first gas crisis in the early 1970s. Instead they are still building dinosaurs while people like Plasma Boy and Wrightspeed are building viable alternatives. Bravo to the electrics! GM had the EV1 what seemed like a great car according to the movie "Who killed the electric car". One of the reasons I say let GM go down. Companies like Tesla and others should be given money to further advance the technology.
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| The EV1 could have been the beginning of consumer friendly electric cars. The president of GM said that his biggest mistake was killing the electric car. I would bet that the gasoline lobby had something to do with the demise of the EV1.
I'm in total agreement about letting GM die and giving money to electric car production. |
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Re: Fastest quarter mile in an electric car! Then EV-1 and the EV+ were bloody awesome cars! Ive driven both. Handled beautiful, smooth, awesome acceleration. Shame they killed em off 
On the plus side, I have some nice EVs, not quite the same, lower range vehicles right now, however, I will have the Alias by ZAP coming soon, does 150mph and 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds with 100+ Mile range on Standard batteries
Shameless Plug, »MilwaukeeEV.com
I have a video of my Revolution 1 EV doing a lil take off up and down the street. Thats the slowest EV I carry ^_^
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seqretsPremium
join:2001-05-03
Nederland, TX
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Re: Second Fastest quarter mile in an electric car? said by JukeBoxHero 
The Big 3 should have been working on electric cars after the first gas crisis in the early 1970s. Instead they are still building dinosaurs while people like Plasma Boy and Wrightspeed are building viable alternatives.
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I reallly don't think that it is just the American Auto Industry/Goverment/Industry in general that has shown a lack of forward thinking/ foresight! As consumers, we should have demanded more too!
It'll have to be another topic but, yeah! You are on the right track!
It's just a shame that this type of technology that has been available for how many years and what amount of it! Is it currently available to the average Joe!
Backspace, Thanks for the comments!
Fir_Na_Tine, If GM does infact go down, we will see not only towns go down but, also families! 1000's of families!
And in the end, where does it all go but, overseas! Another way to weakin our economy!
If the Govermant is going to give the Auto industry money, then put standards in place that hold them accountable! Don't just give them the money and say "Okay, now your fixed"!
Before this topic gets moved or locked, time to stop! Hopefuly, everyone gets the gist of it!
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Re: Fastest quarter mile in an electric car! Where the hell do you think the electricity comes from. Electric cars are far from pollution free. The vehicle in the O.P. has 60 batteries Now that is a lot of lead and acid and most electricity is generated by coal fired plants. I wonder why they never mentioned driving distance on a charge and how long it takes to charge all the batteries. I'm not impressed. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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Fort Wayne, IN
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| said by TheHarvester:The vehicle in the O.P. has 60 batteries Now that is a lot of lead and acid and the majority of the battery can be recycled, recovering/reusing the lead and neutralizing the acid into much less harmful/polluting substances.
and most electricity is generated by coal fired plants. Controlling the pollution from a power plant is easier to manage then controlling the pollution from millions of out of tune, smog spewing vehicles. |
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kudos:2 | Screw all of you. I'm waiting for a car with a mini reactor. |
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said by cdru:[Controlling the pollution from a power plant is easier to manage then controlling the pollution from millions of out of tune, smog spewing vehicles. Bull shit. Why the hell do most states have smog inspection programs implemented when cars are the smallest contributor to the cause.
As long as it is a new coal plant. Any coal fired electrical generating plant built before the laws were enacted are NOT required to follow the laws. One older plant spews as much NOx in a year as 500,000 late model cars do. In case you were not aware of it NOx is the #1 cause of SMOG. NOx combined with sunlight produces photochemical smog. You know the crap that gives us those beautiful sunsets and burning lungs during the day. That is why we never get those beautiful red sunrises or have smog at night.
Not to mention what it takes to get the coal out of the ground, process it and get it to the plant.
Coal is anything but clean. I am still not impressed. |
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| said by TheHarvester:Bull shit. Why the hell do most states have smog inspection programs implemented when cars are the smallest contributor to the cause. According to the EPA, for NOx emissions across the country, on road mobile (as oppose to aircraft, marine, lawnmowers, etc) contributes to nearly 2x as much as the next closest polluter, the electrical generation category. In your fair state of California, the numbers from road mobile emissions is 40x that of electrical generation.
Carbon monoxide emissions at the national level is nearly 100:1 and in California, about 120:1.
States implement emission testing for vehicles because they are the number 1 pollutant and it gets even worse the older the car and less maintained it is. If they didn't, the numbers from mobile vehicles would be even worse.
As long as it is a new coal plant. Any coal fired electrical generating plant built before the laws were enacted are NOT required to follow the laws. One older plant spews as much NOx in a year as 500,000 late model cars do. First, I was specific when I wrote my post that I did NOT solo out coal fired power plants. I was referring to power plants in general, including natural gas and nuclear.
And I still stand by what I said. It's easier to manage a single source of large pollution then millions of smaller ones. I didn't say that the pollution would be eliminated, that it was necessarily cost efficient, or easily implemented, just that it was easier to manage it.
Your comparison is also partially flawed as you are comparing old power plants with almost brand new vehicles. Big shocker there that newer vehicles produce less pollution, Mr. Obvious. Compare an older plant with a non-late model vehicle and I bet it takes far fewer cars to make up the equivalent.
Not to mention what it takes to get the coal out of the ground, process it and get it to the plant.
Coal is anything but clean. I am still not impressed.
As oppose to what it takes to get nuclear material refined and then disposed of? Or maybe petroleum drilled for, cracked, stored, and transported? Unless your vehicle runs on perpetual motion or your destination is downhill, there is going to be pollution from the procurement and use of energy in some manner. |
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