fgfadfkjh wrote:
Good points. I'll point out that an electric golf cart likely can't handle the hills of a good XC course. Got to stay ahead of the leader, after all.
Just need a golf cart with a higher watt motor and higher voltage battery and controller. I can make a golf cart exceed 60 miles/h with 84 or 96 volts
rolling, rolling, rolling wrote:
this and this wrote:If pressed on this issue, the event organizers would likely say the exhaust is the same for all the leaders.
They should have someone rolling coal at the front of the race. It would be an obstacle, like hills or hay bales.
They should have races where runners run along train tracks following the train engineer in a coal burning train down the tracks.
You're right, but there's no reason why an OEM (Read: car/gator manufacturer) couldn't produce a vehicle as powerful as a gator. Tesla has 700 hp motors. The technology is there and sufficiently competitive.
Seriously mate? 1) Not all motors use rare earth minerals. If you have an AC induction motor (like Tesla) there are no permanent magnets and in turn, no rare earths used.2) There are companies today that recycle Li-ion batteries for electric cars and this will be standard in 2-4 years. Meaning that when you buy a car/vehicle you won'thave to worry about disposal.3) For the sake of a city, race, and with respect to particulate emissions, even if your vehicle was purely coal powered, it'd be better off. Having said that, coal is dying. The U.S. uses less and less coal for electricity generation and in my lifetime we will have a majority renewable powered grid. Electric vehicles are the environmental option from a life cycle and fuel use consunption standpoint. The electric motor is about the most efficient machine out their, and in addition to being cleaner, on an energy use basis, electric vehicles are more efficient.
History repeats wrote:
Seriously mate? wrote:Wouldn't it also be a great marketing idea for electric vehicles to be the pacers? Today's pace car brought to you by the chevy volt/Nissan leaf etc.
Yeah, it would be great advertising for coal and nuclear power plants that supply the electricity for those cars too. Also, would be great advertising for the environmental damage caused by the mining of rare earth minerals required to make and dispose of those batteries.
Consumption* and there*
Utif wrote:
They should have races where runners run along train tracks following the train engineer in a coal burning train down the tracks.
Such a format started in 1896 and continues to this day. Ever notice how the Boston Marathon course parallels train tracks? In the early days the organizers rode the competitiors 20-some miles out of town on the train and said something like "you men run back to town" and shot a gun at noon. Sadly diesel then electric replaced the coal and now school busses replaced the train.
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