[DrCaleb]

Knoss wrote:

Quote:

Try to get parts for an electric car from NAPA.

I thought you said electric cars dont need parts.

Care to quote me?

I said they don't require costly maintainence, only about $10 a year for brushes for the electric motor[s] (if you use a brush type motors). About every 6 years, they need to have the batteries replaced.

Nethier of which are available at NAPA.

[stratos]

DrCaleb wrote:

Knoss wrote:

Quote:

Try to get parts for an electric car from NAPA.

I thought you said electric cars dont need parts.

Care to quote me?

I said they don't require costly maintainence, only about $10 a year for brushes for the electric motor[s] (if you use a brush type motors). About every 6 years, they need to have the batteries replaced.

Nethier of which are available at NAPA.

I know this is going to sound foolish but what type of battery does and elec. car take? I always pictured it using something similar to a car battery they type sold at NAPA stores.

[DrCaleb]

stratos wrote:

DrCaleb wrote:

Knoss wrote:

Quote:

Try to get parts for an electric car from NAPA.

I thought you said electric cars dont need parts.

Care to quote me?

I said they don't require costly maintainence, only about $10 a year for brushes for the electric motor[s] (if you use a brush type motors). About every 6 years, they need to have the batteries replaced.

Nethier of which are available at NAPA.

I know this is going to sound foolish but what type of battery does and elec. car take? I always pictured it using something similar to a car battery they type sold at NAPA stores.

The problem with electric cars is the less they weigh, the further they go. Lead-acid batteries like in regular cars are not ideal for this because they contain lead. Most electric cars use lighter batteries than can deliver high-current, and can sustain sudden high current charges (regenerative braking).

The best battery for all these conditions right now is a Lithium Polymer type, or Lithium Ion as they are cheaper, but don't have the high current charge ability. This can be offset by a high charge/discharge capacitor. You can't get these types of batteries at NAPA.

Lead acid batteries also have a high 'fall off' discharge, where peak voltage and current are only available when the battery is fully charged, and diminished quickly as the battery loses that full charge. Li-Poly and Li-ion keep delivering full charge until they are nearly dead.

The biggest hinderance to the electric vehicle right now is the power storage density VS the available power from gasoline. When better batteries are available, electric cars will be exceeing ranges of IC cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_el ... #Batteries

[ziggy]

DrCaleb wrote:

Knoss wrote:

Quote:

Try to get parts for an electric car from NAPA.

I thought you said electric cars dont need parts.

Care to quote me?

I said they don't require costly maintainence, only about $10 a year for brushes for the electric motor[s] (if you use a brush type motors). About every 6 years, they need to have the batteries replaced.

Nethier of which are available at NAPA.

I think aside from the batteries anything else could be fabbed.If you cant find a part,make one.

[BartSimpson]

tritium wrote:

George Bush is the ONLY President in history that has gone to war for oil

That is not true even if you assume the cause for the Iraq invasion was oil. FDR went to war over oil but it wasn't because he wanted to obtain oil, it was because the USA controlled oil at the time and we denied it to Japan and provided it to England and both factors pushed us into WW2.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the Phillipines was meant to secure their invasion of Dutch Indonesia where they intended to replace the oil that FDR had embargoed with captured oil from the Dutch.

[ziggy]

DrCaleb wrote:

tritium wrote:

Where can you buy this car? I know I would.

You can't. The EV-1 project by GM was scrapped, like the Avro Arrow. People who leased and wanted to buy those cars weren't allowed to, and GM had all the prototypes destroyed.

Do you think they were all destroyed? There must be a few kicking around here and there in some farmers quonset.

[DrCaleb]

ziggy wrote:

DrCaleb wrote:

tritium wrote:

Where can you buy this car? I know I would.

You can't. The EV-1 project by GM was scrapped, like the Avro Arrow. People who leased and wanted to buy those cars weren't allowed to, and GM had all the prototypes destroyed.

Do you think they were all destroyed? There must be a few kicking around here and there in some farmers quonset.

No, they were only leased by GM, never sold. All were accounted for. There's a pic on the Wikipedia link of the EV-1s after they were crushed.