Hi Bruce, I enjoy your news feed a lot. You said: "I try to cover EVs from the: electric bicycle, ejeepney/rickshaw, nEV/eLSV, low-cost China/India bare-bones, and all the way up to Mercedes (way out of the price-range of the common-man)."
I haven't seen any coverage of HPEV, human powered electric vehicle, yet (only been hear a month or so). I beta tested and ride an Organic Transit ELF <http://www.organictransit.com/>. Plugs in, and you pedal to whatever level you like. I use a 20Ah 48V pack and frequently commute to work each way, 25 miles, in slightly over an hour, with a recharge in the middle. I use about 1kWh for each leg (about $0.12 from Duke Progress (an oxymoron if I ever heard one)), so I save at least $10 a day in $3.25 gas and some wear and tear. I don't have enough data to see how much wear and tear costs for the ELF yet. You can legitimately imagine paying back the cost in a few years compared to an ICE which is just a money pit. I think this is a legitimate ICE replacement - for some people. Your searches seem to involve mostly heavy hardware - from what I can tell. The ELF has a much smaller environmental footprint, and confers some substantial health benefits. BentMike On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter < bruce...@operamail.com> wrote: > Big snip -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do WIth your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131124/a4925490/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)
