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EVcast #110: Three Wheeled Vehicles

Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 3:04 PM (not yet rated)    post viewed 3312 times

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Join Bo, Ryan, and Jason as they explore the past, present, and future of three wheeled vehicles.  How long have they been around?  What is the purpose of them?  Do people really buy them?  Will they buy them?  What are the advantages and disadvantages?  Are they legal in everywhere?  What does the future lineup of 3-wheeled EVs look like?  Who will survive, who will fail, and who will be, the next Apprentice(tm)?

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John Briggs
Free Access		JohnBriggs said on Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 5:40 PM:

Off Topic

   Hydraulic Hybrids

   Well it looks like you don't need batteries to make a hybrid, UPS is doing it with pressurized fluid.  It looks impressive, but I don't know the advantages and disadvantages.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2008/10/28/ups.hybrids.ups

John C. Briggs

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Gavin Shoebridge
Free Access		KiwiEV said on Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 8:30 PM:

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought Demolition Man was a serious futuristic insight. The "Capacitance Gel" and the Crash-Foam and the Self-Drive Mode - you watch, we'll see em all!

Hooray, I'm not insane after all!

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Bo Bennett
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Group Administrator		Bo said on Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 8:36 PM:

Here is another insight to the future. - this movie was before Arnold was govenator:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2003/08/08/president-arnold-schwarzenegger.htm

 

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John Briggs
Free Access		JohnBriggs said on Tuesday, October 28th 2008 @ 10:34 PM:

Video of the Suitcase Car, Time marker 7:12

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/07/12/092820.html

 

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Paul Cummings
Free Access		PaulCummings said on Wednesday, October 29th 2008 @ 1:35 AM:

I must confess, I have always been an admirer of Buchminster Fuller, a unique vissionary in so many areas.  You can make a case that a lot of his ideas were either pie-in-the-sky or unpractical or just not well-done.  For the purposes however of narrowing the scope of this to the EVCast purview, I will limit my discourse to the Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller.  Even as one article puts it in the list of '50 worse cars of all time,' and they wouldn't be wrong for a lot of practical, hindsight-driven reasons- but it misses the point of the Dymaxion as the concept car that it was- a car with the promise of the future.  Let's hope the EV concept cars of today are not all relegated to the musem (or YouTube videos of 2120) like the Dymaxion was.

YouTube Article (who knew they had YouTube in 1933;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLZE23EJKs&NR=1

Article on the Dymaxion: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/automobiles/collectibles/15BUCKY.html

 

or: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Car

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Guest		 a guest said on Wednesday, October 29th 2008 @ 11:20 AM:

Google has committed to investing almost $3 million to help the Carlsbad based Aptera electric car company develop its 3-wheeled electric and hybrid cars.

The announcement from the Internet giant's nonprofit unit said the Aptera funding is part of its RechargeIT initiative, intended to speed adoption of plug-in electric vehicles.

Aptera Motors is developing both a hybrid diesel/electric and an all-electric version of its vehicle, both simply called the Aptera, expected to cost about $30,000 each. Both versions seat two and are three-wheeled (two in front, one in back). They're classified as motorcycles by the state, which allows them access to car-pool lanes with just the driver.

More at Village Energy: < http://www.villageenergy.com/electricfuture/aptera.html >

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