Electric cars, not too far to go now !

shimy182 · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:27

With nano technology amazing things are now possible, such as electic cars with batteries that only takes 10 mins to charge, and drives for 250 miles!
http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-2008-Lightning-GT.htm
also impressive BHP.

wont be long until full electric car racing either.

Jokester · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:29

Any idea on price?

Jokester

ChoÞÞer · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:31

10 minute charge time for over 250 miles of motoring

Thats pretty good for 10 minutes

Ben M · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:32

OH MY GOD, A CAR THAT CAN GO 250 MILES!

TheKnat · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:34

Still not great for long distance journeys unfortunately. Only going to take of when you can re-charge at a service station and I doubt they are going to be happy when they are selling less petrol, seeing as the price they charge is a tiny bit high.

Unless of course you have a charging station like a petrol station, where they charge you per watt your car consumes. At a high rate of course

penski · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:36

TheKnat said:
Still not great for long distance journeys unfortunately. Only going to take of when you can re-charge at a service station and I doubt they are going to be happy when they are selling less petrol, seeing as the price they charge is a tiny bit high.

That's mostly tax. Not cost of fuel.

*n

thecremeegg · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:39

lol at "virtual engine sound"

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:41

TheKnat said:
Still not great for long distance journeys unfortunately. Only going to take of when you can re-charge at a service station and I doubt they are going to be happy when they are selling less petrol, seeing as the price they charge is a tiny bit high.

Unless of course you have a charging station like a petrol station, where they charge you per watt your car consumes. At a high rate of course

companies make very little from petrol per litre it's just the sheer volume they sale. They could easily fit a charging station and charge you for that.

250miles is more than enough for a huge swath of the population.

snowdog · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:47

Meh, I hate electric cars, takes away the fun part of somethign that is being burnt.

If we move on then get hydrogen cars, not elec cars

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TheKnat · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:50

AcidHell2 said:
companies make very little from petrol per litre it's just the sheer volume they sale.

I never said they were making lots of money, just that they charge you more than a normal service station. Would still be less money for them.

AcidHell2 said:
They could easily fit a charging station and charge you for that.

I also said that in my post as well :rolleyes:

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:50

snowdog said:
Meh, I hate electric cars, takes away the fun part of somethign that is being burnt.

If we move on then get hydrogen cars, not elec cars .

Good think with electric is you get all that torque from 0 - max rpm...

No gearbox. In other words there stupidly fast and powerful. But no v8 rumble

Ben M · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:50

snowdog said:
Meh, I hate electric cars, takes away the fun part of somethign that is being burnt.

If we move on then get hydrogen cars, not elec cars .

hydrogen fuel celled cars are almost as pointless as electric cars. and quite a lot more dangerous, due to the whole hydrogen being explosive type thing.

Jokester · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:52

Ben M said:
hydrogen fuel celled cars are almost as pointless as electric cars. and quite a lot more dangerous, due to the whole hydrogen being explosive type thing.

And petrol isn't?

Jokester

NathanE · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:55

Jokester said:
And petrol isn't?

Jokester

Ben M · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:55

Jokester said:
And petrol isn't?

Jokester

Compressed hydrogen gas is quite a lot more dangerous than petrol.

Glaucus · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:55

Ben M said:
Compressed hydrogen gas is quite a lot more dangerous than petrol.

Not really. It also has a huge very safe bottle to store it in, rather than a flimsy petrol tank.

GreenMint · 12 Dec 2007 at 20:56

So you DO get more bang for your buck

Lopéz · 12 Dec 2007 at 21:04

Ben M said:
OH MY GOD, A CAR THAT CAN GO 250 MILES!

I think 250 miles on a ten minute charge for an electric vehicle is pretty damn good actually.

snowdog · 12 Dec 2007 at 21:09

A petrol car does that though while filling it for 2 minutes, not 10.

Ben M said:
Compressed hydrogen gas is quite a lot more dangerous than petrol.

Pff who cares, it's combustion: I want gears, I want to trash the engine so the RPM flyes up so much that the valves almost fall off. I dont want contstant even power for everyone and all the time.

What's fun about an elec engine?
Hydrogen combustion is just CO2 free combustion

, pleases the envoirementalists, pleases me

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Besides, if they'd think gasses etc would be too unsafe then LPG would never become an important fuel because of explosion danger, yet here in the NL, 2 % of all cars drive on it.

GreenMint · 12 Dec 2007 at 21:11

snowdog said:
A petrol car does that though while filling it for 2 minutes, not 10.

Maybe so, but do many 700+ HP cars do that? Nope, probably more than 10 mins filling in all, but obviously not sure how much HP thier GTSE has, as its the GT listed with 700+

Still quite a feat!