Electric car goes offshore

Stevie Wonder has more foresight than the fools we have in Government, or those waiting their turn to get their snouts in the trough.
Jack

I worked for the news media long enough to never believe what a reporter writes without checking it for yourself ! Also, electric cars are available now, I drove a hybrid a few weeks ago and was very impressed.

lots of info on electic car conversions etc on the net. Also do searches on the GM EV1 and even more distubing the the purchase of the nickel metal hydride battery patent by Cheveron in the USA who sued panasonic for manufacturing batterings for the Toyota RAV4 Electric car in the USA.
I have pondered converting a car to electric for the city runs.

Leroy

Maybe the problem in Oz is the length of flex with 3 pin plugs to get from one powerpoint to the next. Distances in UK are shorter but even then I'd have thought the flexes would get tangled up.

:-))

$100 / yr to run ? Thats just the petrol bill for the landcruiser trailering it to the next dumb journo that doesnt check the facts properly. And pigs will fly comes to mind also!
Some of those solar car racers might one day get close -- but they can cost a few million each at present.
Land speed records were held by electric cars around the turn of the last century
its a pity they didnt have the advantage of 100 years continuous development - as given to our current internal combustion engined vehicles.

Batteries are finally improving as is the cost of solar cells which together with an on board back -up generator and electric charger set up may give hope for small city type vehicles in the future. I would consider one provided it had a safety crash frame etc. Cant see one appearing that will match the $14990 small cars at present. At $40k the prius hybrid is also a little expensive ?

Barnsey.
I would love to think this was true.
If this blokes story was true the media would be able to drive it on a private track but that has not happened, There are some laws of physics to consider, To travel x k,s you need y energy, to get that energy in a battery it will have a mass of z kilo's, to accelerate z kilo's to 100k's in 7 seconds needs a lot of power, a lot of power requires a lot of battery. I don't know the numbers for this car, but the answer is probably the same reason as no one will back it, it may be similar to Fitche and Hyclones. Eric.

could be a chance for you to invest some of your "hardearned" Barnesy (SA)

It's a pity that we don't get the full story and reasons why this vehicle isn't being accepted.
According to 'the inventor' ....'since he brought the project to Australia from Malaysia three years ago, it has failed to attract any interest from local industry.'

Why no (apparent) interest from Malaysian industry. I always thought they were pretty innovative in developing products.

Why no interest from local industry? Perhaps the concept, the engineering, the electrical etc are just not up to scratch. Who knows. Perhaps it's a lemon ! The article is obviously short on such info.

You can't test drive it on public roads because it doesn't comply with Australian Design Rules. I guess that's the same reason so called 'monkey bikes' are not permitted to be registered or driven on roads - they just don't comply with safety requirements.

But a spokeswoman for Innovation Minister John Brumby said the Government was not aware of any requests for support. "As far as the Government is aware, this particular company has never sought formal assistance from the Government.

This guy is obviously doing something wrong in the way he has gone about developing/promoting his vehicle. Perhaps he really needs a good PR man to create interest which (if the product was any good) would in turn create demand.

Let's just wait and see how long before the 100 cars he's contracted to build appear.

I'm guessing we will never see them.

These magical cars keep appearing out of the never never and just as quickly go back there.

However! If there are enough concerned supporters who have faith, surely they can all contribute through a share buying scheme to get the vehicle developed in Australia and become overnight multi millionaires.

Ian