about $1 Trillion worth is what I have read. That is also the amount the World bank predicts the US will spend in Iraq after its all said and done.

 

He meant you could attach giant sails to the car...duh

 

Here's an idea: put a windmill on top of your electric car to generate power to charge the batteries as you drive! Well, at least it makes about as much sense as the TV program that suggested using an engine-driven air compressor to repressurize the onboard air tanks that power the car.

 

Dhere, fixed dat fo ya!

 

Screw green, i just want MPG and power.

 

I got to drive a GM Impact (EV1 prototype) around, and it was fun. But the Wrightspeed X1 makes me drool.

In recent track testing, on street tires, it achieved the following performance:
0-30 mph: 1.35 sec
0-60 mph: 3.07 sec in 117 ft
0-100 mph: 6.87 sec
0-100-0 mph 11.2 sec
Lateral g: 1.3
Braking g: 1.2
http://www.wrightspeed.com/x1.html

Aerial Atom handling, and runs 11s. Evidently top speed limited, because with a sub 7 second 0-100 time I'd expect a lot quicker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvjH4...elated&search=

EDIT: OK, I just searched and Ariel Atom has almost never come up here. The only video link is dead. Actually, almost ALL of the videos on the web have been pulled - thanks alot BBC, Copyrightmongers. So if you don't know what the Atom is, the middle video link here is a top gear episode that's pretty good. If i had seen this before building the car on my profile, it would have been a lot different:
http://www.arielatom.com

 

My brother said the accelleration was incredible. The coolest part being how quiet it is, and you primarily just hear the wind. Its also a head turner.

 

http://www.theenergysavingsstore.com/SWWisper500.html

This one here will provide 500KWHs a month.(assuming 12mph winds) Enough to power your average house. But no, I dont know how many windmills it takes to power an eletric car. How many kWhs it takes to charge it I dont know i'll just be assuming here.

Telsa saids it cost about .01 per mile to charge it. I pay about .10 per KWH hour. So it seems it would take 10 Kwh to charge it for every hunderd miles.

I drive about 300 miles a week. So that will take about 30KwHs a week. Roughly 120 KwH a month.

So that is just over 1/5th a windmill.

Feel free to correct my math. Or fine out how many kilowatt hours it takes to charge it for a dead battery. And we can go from there. That would be a lot more accurate.

 

If you have solar panels, you can turn your e-meter backwards. If you suck energy during the night, with lower costs, you can charge batteries. Is there no energy consumed. Of course not. However, you can off-set the energy by absorbing sunlight and wind. Costs are only equal, less or greater than your use.

 

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive...ctric_car.html