I think Bob Aronson's Mars electric car with 2000 pounds of lead acid batteries did 144 miles under ideal conditions in the late 1960's
> I managed to find the article. > > https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/1600-miles-on-a-single-charge-student- > built-ev-sets-new-world-record/ > > shortcut: https://v.gd/X9prd1 > > Top speed 42 km/h > Weight 170kg > > For comparison, in 1987 the GM Sunraycer won the World Solar Challenge - > all > energy from the sun - with an average speed of 41.6mph. > > Top speed 109 km/h > Weight 177 kg > > These - and many others over the decades - are literal academic exercises. > Maybe an obscenely wealthy person could commission one like them as a toy. > Most of us couldn't, and probably wouldn't want to anyway. Cool as they > are, they're not really very safe or practical for public roads. > > Wouldn't it be great if the automakers hired some of these students and > put > them to work applying some of their efficiency optimizations to production > EVs? > > Dream on, I guess .... > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Any time you see a group with the word liberty, freedom, or truth > in its name, you can be sure that it stands for the exact opposite. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
