Marcus In some states (like Idaho) the max speed for an NEV is 35 mph which is a reasonable city speed.
Peter Flipsen Jr On Jan 23, 2013 10:30 PM, "Marcus Reddish" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, sometimes I'm a little slow. Why make a NEV instead of an EV? What is > the advantage? Last time I checked 25 mph is really painfully unbelievably > s--l--o--w. Boulevards around town have a speed limit of 35 or 45 mph. > You would be a traffic nuisance and make everybody REALLY hate electric > cars even more. > > What am I not seeing? > > Are you thinking limit it to 25 during certification and then crank up the > controller? > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Administrator wrote: > > > >> The irony here is that the light weight and low speed are meant to > >> minimize > >> the personal hazard of operating a light vehicle with little or no crash > >> protection. > >> > > > > That works if the vehicles wind up being driven only on low-speed urban > > streets, and never get hit by normal "heavy" vehicles at high speeds. > > However, these NEVs are usually driven on the same roads as 2-ton cars > and > > many-ton trucks. Accidents are inevitable. > > > > I think Amory Lovin's "hypercar" concept is a better idea. Design the car > > to be lighter in the first place, yet *keep* all the safety devices and > > crash protection. It's obviously possible. Solectria's Sunrise had seat > > belts, air bags, impact protection, and passed DOT crash testsas a normal > > high speed automobile. Yet it weighed *half* as much as a normal car of > the > > same size. > > > > We're trying to make it a kit car, but it's slow going! > > See http://www.sunrise-ev.com/ > > > > -- > > If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood > > and don't assign them tasks and work. Rather, teach them to long > > for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery > > -- > > Lee A. Hart, http://www.sunrise-ev.com/**LeesEVs.htm< > http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm> > > ______________________________**_________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub< > http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org< > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/* > > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > > > > > > -- > Marcus Reddish > > *North Valley Systems LLC* > Stevensville, Montana > 406-360-8628 > northvalleyev.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130123/ca9ca67d/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130123/3c58ce51/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
