Since I'm a day behind in the digest that somebody else has already pointed this out but... Theres no way you could carry enough solar cells on any kind of a practical car to do any amount of solar assist. That solar car that made all the news was really like a flatbed truck (a very light flatbed truck) covered with cells. Theres just not enough energy in today's PV cells to make it worth it.
-Curt Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:06:55 -0400 From: "andrew strasfogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] A little question on biodiesel relavent to this list To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Rapeseed is the predecessor name fro Canola oil. The solution is an amalgam of synergistic technologies - photovoltainc solar assist cells on the roof of the car, in combination with the aforementioned biodiesel-electric hybrid motor. --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 30 23:03:05 2006 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GIZ5M-000267-JE for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:03:05 +0000 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p77so300319nfc for <mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.8.10 with SMTP id l10mr339889nfi; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.70? ( [24.108.13.85]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 32sm78855hui.2006.08.30.16.02.53; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:02:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John M McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:02:49 -0700 To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: John M McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Smart, I guess X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:03:05 -0000 I think the question is does the SRS system monitor the state of the pre-tensioners and tell if you if they are faulty/disconnected. Or is it just two wires, power and ground to fire them? Likely the SRS computer fires them with the air bags if it knows the seat belt is being used. On 30-Aug-06, at 2:41 PM, Hendrik Riessen wrote: > What, drive it into a wall? > Seriously I am interested to know how they function, are there > sensors which > detect the crumple zone crumpling or is there a sensor in the seat > belt > mechanism which can tell when an emergencey situation exists? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Cathey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:03 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Smart, I guess > John 1983 300TDt 368k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac) 1990's 300TDt 172k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac) 1993 500SEL 180k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)