Why stop there? You could spring load or put rockets on the pack. Fire it out the front to stop the car in 20 feet from highway speed. If stopped, stick it 10 feet out the back of the car for alot of crush space.
--- Lee Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These comments on crashworthiness gave me an insane idea. I'll call > it > the "hammer". Let me get it out of my head before it does any more > damage :-) > > Assume an EV that is basically half car and half batteries by > weight. > Mount the batteries in a big flat box under the center floor of the > car. > The front and rear bumpers are attached not to the car, but to the > battery box. They form the head of our "hammer". The battery box > plus > bumper assembly is only loosely attached to the car, by some sort > of > springy shock-absorbing mount. The front and rear spaces (hood and > trunk) are basically several feet of energy-absorbing crumple zone. > They > are the handle of our "hammer". > > Imagine that some heavy vehicle slams into the car. Rather than the > whole car absorbing the impact energy, the battery box takes it > all. The > "attacking" vehicle will react as if it hit a half-ton lead wall. > > Meanwhile the loosely-coupled body is more slowly accellerated, > with its > front (or rear as the case may be) crushing to absorb the energy. > > In the extreme, one could even imagine the battery box breaking > entirely > free of the car, and either embedding itself in the attacking > vehicle, > or rebounding out the other end of your EV, carrying a good deal of > kinetic energy with it. > -- > Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still can ring > 814 8th Ave. N. Forget your perfect offering > Sartell, MN 56377 USA There is a crack in everything > leeahart_at_earthlink.net That's how the light gets in - Leonard > Cohen > ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
