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75-mph car runs on AA batteries
| Quote From Source: | A vehicle powered by 192 AA dry-cell batteries hit a top speed of 122.00 kilometers per hour (75.81 mph) during time trials in Japan Saturday. The carbon fiber reinforced plastic car averaged 105.95 kph (65.83 mph). The average speed is said to be the fastest achieved by a dry cell-powered vehicle, and a Guinness Book of World Records adjudicator present at the test run said he would report the achievement to his head office for formal recognition. The 84-pound vehicle is 10.8 feet long, 2.6 feet wide, and just 1.8 feet tall, and is manufactured by students at Osaka Sangyo University with the help of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
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84 lbs, good luck with that if an SUV nails you. |
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Amazing though |
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my thoughts exactly, they never make these cars very safe...good luck if a geo metro hits u... |
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My battery charger holds 4 AA batteries at a time. Dang.. I think my first set would be old and dated by the time I got the last set charged lol.
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Tires would be dry rotted by the time it was charged up enough to drive again.
You would lose a head on collision with a dog as well. The good thing is motors are becoming more efficient and all we really need is a good, super fast long lasting rechargeable battery.
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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c'mon guys - its a test machine, a proof of concept. it'll never hit the road.
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lol, I realize it. I do like to see the electric vehicles improving. They have concept cars that can go 75 off of AA's, and concept cars that can get the equivalent to 6000 mpg. You wouldn't drive one on the road, but the technology is clearly improving. Give us a viable energy source (fuel cells?) and give us sturdy vehicles, and we might have something! |
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Fuel cells could be the way to go. If you are thinking of them as a method of storing power generated by an outside source. It is like the electrified rail lines that dominate Europe. The great thing about that is that it doesn't matter what you use to power the line. You can use coal, hydro, nuke, etc. Doesn't matter. Just plug in the power to the system and the trains go. So if a newer and better way comes up for generating the power you just plug that in and everything runs just as before. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every time a new way of generating power is discovered.
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Would this car carry my booze from the monthly Costco runs?
I think fuel cells are the only way to go for transportation but they are a good way away from being ready. I've seen estimates of between 10 and 40 years. |
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| Quoting Indy - posted on 12/19/2007 at 18:38 |
Fuel cells could be the way to go. If you are thinking of them as a method of storing power generated by an outside source. It is like the electrified rail lines that dominate Europe. The great thing about that is that it doesn't matter what you use to power the line. You can use coal, hydro, nuke, etc. Doesn't matter. Just plug in the power to the system and the trains go. So if a newer and better way comes up for generating the power you just plug that in and everything runs just as before. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every time a new way of generating power is discovered.
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Exactly, this is how we could diversify w/o putting in an unrealistic and complex infrastructure. The diversity is in how the power is generated, not how it's transfered to the vehicles. |
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