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Article #216Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts
From: Mr. Precision
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:56
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:56
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Andrew Szafran wrote: > In misc.transport.rail.americas Mr. Precision <Amaps.news@archeus.plus.com> wrote: > >>Solectria Sunrise: 373 miles per charge, from Boston to NYC in 1997 >>using NiMH batteries. Batteries are twice as good now. > > > That was a very light, flimsy car, purpose-built for efficiency, and with > no cargo or passenger capacity to speak of. When you're thinking of using Certainly very light, carbon fibre construction but it passed the requisite crash testing. http://www.acterra.org/ev/archive/Sunrise_crash.html http://www.solectria.com/news/jun1600.html 4 seats and a boot(trunk). So it couldn't be called flimsy, has a 4 person capacity and a trunk to hold bags/shopping/whatever. It was a pre production prototype and Solectria would love to hear from someone with the cash to seriously put it into production. > electric cars for longer trips, in addition to range per charge, charging > *time* must be taken into account. It wouldn't do to drive 250 miles only > to have to spend 8 hours recharging the thing. 8 hours? For a trickle charge. An 80% charge in 45mins, time for lunch and a coffee. On top of this, the average distance people in the US travel is only 29 miles per day and you could plug it in at home. http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_household_travel_survey/quick_sheets/daily_travel.html For longer distances I prefer train or plane. -- UCE probe. Don't send mail to Amaps.news@archeus.plus.com there's nobody home. The address captures spammer addresses and /dev/nulls all their mail. Regards, Colin.Smith at archeus.plus.com
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