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#280800 - 27/04/2006 21:53 Very cool car.
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	Met Ian Wright this afternoon. See lame Treo 650 pic. (attachment) Couldn't touch him on the twisties on my 05 zx6r heading north on 35, and I don't feel that I'm a slow poke. Watch the video here (click on the picture on the front page): http://www.wrightspeed.com/ - Jon Attachments 280758-Photo_042706_001.jpg (191 downloads)
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#280801 - 28/04/2006 00:47 Re: Very cool car. [Re: jbauer]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	That's the electric Ariel Atom chasis-based car featured in this month's Business 2.0. Neat. Not as practical as AC Propulsion's test car, but cool nonetheless. Now if only the US didn't burn coal for the majority of its electricity... Bruno _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#280802 - 28/04/2006 10:22 Re: Very cool car. [Re: hybrid8]
Anonymous Unregistered	Well they can't have a hoodscoop and superchager on it like most dragcars. I say they should put a windmill on top and let it harness the power of the wind as it speeds along.
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#280803 - 28/04/2006 10:39 Re: Very cool car. [Re: ]
Redrum old hand Registered: 17/01/2003 Posts: 998	Quote: Well they can't have a hoodscoop and superchager on it like most dragcars. I say they should put a windmill on top and let it harness the power of the wind as it speeds along. Better yet - If you build a car with a big wheel in the back and a little one in front it will always be going down hill. An endless supply of power.
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#280804 - 28/04/2006 12:03 Re: Very cool car. [Re: Redrum]
Anonymous Unregistered	That's a damn good idea. Building a perpetual motion machine is actually one of my goals in life, as well as finding a perfect winning strategy for chess and creating an algorithm that is capable of encoding any file as a single key that's 1 kb or less in length.
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#280805 - 29/04/2006 04:01 Re: Very cool car. [Re: hybrid8]
SuperQ addict Registered: 13/06/2000 Posts: 429 Loc: Berlin, DE	yea, the guy brougt the car over to where I work and was giving rides to people.. the thing is awesome. the AC propultion motor/controller is a very well designed setup. couldn't get the guy to talk about where he got the LiIon battery pack tho. _________________________ 80gig red mk2 -- 080000125 (No, I don't actually hate Alan Cox)
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#280806 - 30/04/2006 13:27 Re: Very cool car. [Re: jbauer]
FireFox31 pooh-bah Registered: 19/09/2002 Posts: 2494 Loc: East Coast, USA	AH! Ariel Atom. Must... have! _________________________ - FireFox31 110gig MKIIa (30+80), Eutronix lights, 32 meg stacked RAM, Filener orange gel lens, Greenlights Lit Buttons green set
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#280807 - 07/05/2006 12:12 Re: Very cool car. [Re: FireFox31]
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	Ha! http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/07/wrightspeed-x1-electric-now-among-worlds-fastest-cars/ - Jon
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#280808 - 07/05/2006 13:26 Re: Very cool car. [Re: jbauer]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5914 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	There is some very crappy reporting on that car. The articles all seem to say "second only to the Veyron's 0-60" time, whereas in fact there are quite a few cars out there that can beat its 3.5 second time. Most of the articles seem to imply that he designed the car and that it is a "production" model as well. Still, I am all for fast, exciting electric cars. If we end up with lots electric cars on the roads in the coming years then they are going to end up having to fit loadspeakers to them (that go "vroom, vrooom"). Otherwise the number of pedestrians stepping out in front on the otherwise quiet cars is going to sky-rocket. _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#280809 - 07/05/2006 20:38 Re: Very cool car. [Re: andy]
bonzi pooh-bah Registered: 13/09/1999 Posts: 2401 Loc: Croatia	Quote: There is some very crappy reporting on that car. The articles all seem to say "second only to the Veyron's 0-60" time, whereas in fact there are quite a few cars out there that can beat its 3.5 second time. Also, they mention 8g. Let's see, 60mph is about 30m/s, which, if attained in 3 seconds, implies acceleration of about 10m/s2, or 1g. Did I miss an order of magnitude somewhere? Quote: Most of the articles seem to imply that he designed the car and that it is a "production" model as well. Remind me which chasis is this - I saw it in Top Gear (Clarkson was grinning like madman driving it) but forgot the name. Quote: Still, I am all for fast, exciting electric cars. If we end up with lots electric cars on the roads in the coming years then they are going to end up having to fit loadspeakers to them (that go "vroom, vrooom"). Otherwise the number of pedestrians stepping out in front on the otherwise quiet cars is going to sky-rocket. _________________________ Dragi "Bonzi" Raos Q#5196 MkII #080000376, 18GB green MkIIa #040103247, 60GB blue
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#280810 - 07/05/2006 20:46 Re: Very cool car. [Re: bonzi]
CrackersMcCheese pooh-bah Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2489	Top Gear - Atom 0-60 in 2.9 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkEV-t9jg0
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#280811 - 28/06/2006 17:00 Re: Very cool car. [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/04/technology/business2_wrightspeed/ - Jon
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