World's Fastest Electric Cars - NO WAY!

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03-30-2009, 01:30 PM

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Check this out:

http://gas2.org/2009/03/29/worlds-top-10-f...-electric-cars/

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03-30-2009, 03:09 PM

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So the grandaddy of car racing in the future will be....Benjamin Franklin??...Nikola Tesla??? Thomas Edison???

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03-30-2009, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by flyingpuck' post='831094' date='Mar 30 2009, 06:09 PM

So the grandaddy of car racing in the future will be....Benjamin Franklin??...Nikola Tesla??? Thomas Edison???

Did you see that thing on the dragstrip? Insane! Can't be Tesla, he's already got a car named after him!

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"The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented."

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Check this out:

http://gas2.org/2009/03/29/worlds-top-10-f...-electric-cars/

Now that is impressive. No longer will folks wonder if it can be done. Why car manufacturers have not perfected this long before now would be an interesting study... Thanks for posting that!

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03-30-2009, 08:41 PM

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Now that is impressive. No longer will folks wonder if it can be done. Why car manufacturers have not perfected this long before now would be an interesting study... Thanks for posting that!

There is less money in it for them, no oil & filter to charge you for, no expensive engine parts to sell you, no $100/hr labor to charge on a reg. basis. That's why they make EVs look like dorkmobiles.....so you won't want one. So they drag their feet on battery R&D because they know once that hurdle is cleared and you start getting 400 & 500 miles/ charge we all will want one. But I think the writing is on the wall...momentum is building because many minds are hard at work trying to solve this battery problem and the guy who does will be super rich.