> a very similar car came to an autocross at GGF a few years
> ago. i remember he towed a generator, and it could do 0-60
> in 4 seconds.
It was a TZero made by AC Propulsion:
http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_home.htm
I have a video of it's AutoX run still on my web site:
http://www.zfilms.org/Stories/AVArchive/2000/tzero.zip
The new Tesla car is similar, just much cheaper, far more of a real car
instead of a kit car, Li-Ion batteries for more than double the range, and,
hopefully, maintains some of that Lotus Elise handling in spite of the extra
battery weight.
PS, Katie, don't forget that when you exercise you eat more...and what is
used to make the fertilizers to grow your food? And plow the fields? And
haul the produce hundreds of miles to your supermarket? Yup, oil. And
think of the farm workers, toiling away hard all day, I bet they eat a lot
too, it becomes a vicious Global Warming circle... Look where it leaves us,
we're at this very moment in a Stage 2 Electrical Emergency
(http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html), caused by all that AC at
those supermarkets keeping your food cold from the Global Warming you
exhaled...good god Katie, what have you done?
=P
-c
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