DKW 86 6,398 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm T-Zero whipped a Viper on the show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 2,061 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Make it for under 30K and you can rape the world with it. right now its too much money for the average citizen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaGrad03 146 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm T-Zero whipped a Viper on the show! And its also the ugliest car alive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 6,398 Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm T-Zero whipped a Viper on the show! And its also the ugliest car alive! Beauty is just a design away. The mechanicals are what matter here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaddyBoyAU 110 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Here's the one I'm waiting on - it has more range and better performance: Tesla Motors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsixfive 327 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 My parents live in Memphis. That's 360 miles from AU. These cars can't get me there. Do they have solutions for this, rather than sitting at a "charge" station for 4 hours? For around town use, they seem pretty ideal. The Tesla is a good looking car too. Wonder how much they'll want. My guess is the Tesla is around 70K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Well, I would keep a gas burner, but I could see takng this to see my clients or on errands during the day. My longest trip in almost any given day is about 10 miles. Considering it takes me$50 bucks to fill up the car every week, plus all that tedious maintenance, I bet it would come out ahead once they really have the economies of scale working for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 2,061 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 My parents live in Memphis. That's 360 miles from AU. These cars can't get me there. Do they have solutions for this, rather than sitting at a "charge" station for 4 hours? For around town use, they seem pretty ideal. The Tesla is a good looking car too. Wonder how much they'll want. My guess is the Tesla is around 70K. That's where the little trailer comes in. I think its like a gasoline generator on wheels. Look at the photo gallery and you'll see them filling it up at the gas station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsixfive 327 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 My parents live in Memphis. That's 360 miles from AU. These cars can't get me there. Do they have solutions for this, rather than sitting at a "charge" station for 4 hours? For around town use, they seem pretty ideal. The Tesla is a good looking car too. Wonder how much they'll want. My guess is the Tesla is around 70K. That's where the little trailer comes in. I think its like a gasoline generator on wheels. Look at the photo gallery and you'll see them filling it up at the gas station. Well heck, that's even less efficient now - you're using gas to create heat to push a piston to turn a generator to generate sparks, then you gotta move the sparks to the car then convert the sparks back to mechanical energy to turn the wheel(s). You've got more losses in the system that way! Not to mention you're pulling a 400lb trailer that's increasing the wear and tear on your car, and reducing its efficiency. Was Al Gore a system designer for this thing (I guess if not, he'll say he was if they make it big)? That yellow car is u-gly. I like the Tesla, it looks like an Exige. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrnfanatc 6 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Sounds like a plan for the future, but couldn't they have used something besides a Saturn as the prototype? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsixfive 327 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 That Saturn Sky ain't bad lookin. Your AU magnets won't stick to it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger12 41 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 My longest trip in almost any given day is about 10 miles. You luck SOB. Heck, both my wife and I use to both commute seperatly about 60 miles roundtrip to work each day. That meant 120 miles a day between the two of us and we did that for almost 5 years. She is the only one making that trip everday now, but I am making it twice a week and then I am making about 30 mile roundtrip drive another two days a week. We have been putting alot miles and eating alot of gas on our cars in the last several years. In one of those years, I was driving a 1992 Jeep Cherokee when I was making the 60 miles a day trip to work and back. That got why the heck too expensive, so I downsized to a Chevy Cavalier. We both have fuel efficient cars, but it still hurts how much money we are spending on gas every week. Our only options is to try to find something closer to home, but there are not as many jobs in Decatur as Huntsville and they usually do not pay as much as the jobs in Huntsville or move to Madison/Huntsville, where the homes and apartments cost alot more then in Decatur. Can't win either way. So, I am all for the car makers to get their crap straight and make some 100 mpg cars. Heck at this point, 50 mpg would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottomfeeder 239 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 You know what's so funny is the fact that, previously,all of the politics in DC kept this from really happening. But rising gas prices really did it, thankfully we can breathe a bit easier. I can't wait to see the "dark matter spaceship." http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorat..._spaceship.html New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions 04.14.06 Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy). Maybe this is why they recently cut funding to NASA. I tell you, it's a damn conspiracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 2,061 Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 You know what's so funny is the fact that, previously,all of the politics in DC kept this from really happening. But rising gas prices really did it, thankfully we can breathe a bit easier. I can't wait to see the "dark matter spaceship." http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorat..._spaceship.html New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions 04.14.06 Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy). Maybe this is why they recently cut funding to NASA. I tell you, it's a damn conspiracy. Hell. We'd pay anything to get the anti-matter version of you. Got to be some good in him/you/it/??. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURainman 6 Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Maybe this is why they recently cut funding to NASA. I tell you, it's a damn conspiracy. .classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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