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**HAL9000** · 02-15-2003, 02:21 PM

Well, there is no way that 5Mph more for a 70 mile drive is gonna cut your time by 30 minutes, do the math.

Electric cars can be powerful too, provided that you have the energy without a couple thousand pounds of batteries. Unlike an internal combustion engine, electric motors create their maximum horsepower across the entire RPM range. There is a guy here with a GM EV1 and that thing will lay rubber thru the intersection and beat most cars thru it too.

I think it's like anything else, it has to mature.

02-15-2003, 02:21 PM	#2
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	Well, there is no way that 5Mph more for a 70 mile drive is gonna cut your time by 30 minutes, do the math. Electric cars can be powerful too, provided that you have the energy without a couple thousand pounds of batteries. Unlike an internal combustion engine, electric motors create their maximum horsepower across the entire RPM range. There is a guy here with a GM EV1 and that thing will lay rubber thru the intersection and beat most cars thru it too. I think it's like anything else, it has to mature. __________________ -At Ford, quality is job #1, job #2 is making them explode. ~Norm MacDonald, SNL News -Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me... taking the glide path instead.