[Land-speed] End of the High performance car???

[Jon Bishop]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 10:58 AM, John Thornton wrote:

> If gasoline isn't refined in huge quantities for road vehicles it will
> be expensive as hell and difficult to obtain. Think AVGas only worse.
> Most people on this list aren't particularly young are they?
> Don't most of you remember this "end of performance" garbage in the  
> 1970's?
> My new Mustang outperforms my uncle's (since destroyed) Shelby  
> GT350 in
> every aspect of performance quite easily. It outperforms his GT 500 KR
> (also since destroyed) as well.
> A small efficient generator (running on ?) providing AC power to 4 hub
> motors will make for a very fast ride.
> At least that's the theory I'm currently working on   : )
>

Mitsubishi currently has an Evo that has 4 AC hub motors. It makes  
over a thousand pounds of torque. I think each wheel makes close to 280.

Electric motor tech isn't our big problem. It's batteries. Once we  
have better batteries, everything will go electric. Until then, it's  
just not practical.