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[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

Why do they make electric/air cars so ugly if they expect us to start using them instead of gas cars....lol

[cphilip]

Originally posted by PyRo


Ok, I made the wrong point. Its not very efficant when you take into accout the amount of air it would take to move the car.

No I think you were right Pyro.... I think it would take more energy to compress the air need than it would take to just put it directly into making the car move directly. Many things are like that. Its not just a matter of compressed air not costing anything to covert. In that case it might be cheaper to use same energy to charge batteries or something than it would be to compress enough air to move the thing for any reasonable length of time. Plus then you got to move the humongeous tank it takes to store it all along with the car. I suspect it would be a net loss to do that.

[Mateo]

See if they put a hybrid motor say in a sexy body like a C3 Corvette or a 3rd gen RX7 at a good price THEN I might think about buying one.

[PyRo]

Originally posted by Mateo
See if they put a hybrid motor say in a sexy body like a C3 Corvette

Thats the day I shoot whoever came up with the idea.

[pballguy17]

damn, u guys sure wnat ur cake and eat it too!! (i just like to look at cake)

It seems to me, that 90% of the people wouldn't drive a pollution free, cost effciant car.. b/c it farts and looks like a POS. That's envirmental care right there...

I'm sure with all the technolgy out there.. it's possible to work thru the bugs.. the only downside to that would be the cost of it all... what is the approxmite PSI of say the wind on ur windshield? would it be possible to use intake holes? I'm sure people will drive formula 1 like lookin cars.. :P

But there are quite a few problems.... anyone know anything to bypass those?

+Amount of air needed to propel the car.
+Size of the Air tank needed to do the above
+size of the air compressor to do the aboce
+The "un-coolness" that the above would cause
+How to get read of the people who think the above.

Also ideally, i think anyone who's trying to do this is trying to make a car thta works... b4 they make a car that works... that looks good.... i mean.. think of the Model-T! :P

Mickey

Thanx guys

[TransMan]

Seriously what we need to do is start making Steam powered cars they make A LOT more power then Gasoline cars and they would run off Water and Propane. The only down side to a steam engine is that you have to wait for the boiler tank to warm u before you can drive but with todays technology you could start it warming before you even got there. Another good thing would be that there is no need for a transmission and it would pretty much last forever which is probably why no one will manufacture them.

[Python14]

Originally posted by pballguy17
It seems to me, that 90% of the people wouldn't drive a pollution free, cost effciant car.. b/c it farts and looks like a POS. That's envirmental care right there...

Eh, that describes me pretty good. If I'm gonna spend $50,000 on a car to save the sea mammals or whatever, it better not look like one.

[PyRo]

I wouldn't drive anything that looked like a forumla one car, unless it was a formula one car. Rice baby, rice.
Strange on the camaro board I go to, the word rice shows up as **** :)

[Jeffy-CanCon]

Originally posted by CoFFeY[NiTrO]
Why do they make electric/air cars so ugly if they expect us to start using them instead of gas cars....lol

That annoys me, too. I almost think it is a conspiracy by the auto & oil companies to keep us buying the more-expensive & profitable cars. But I expect it's just a coincidence or unintended consequence from using efficiency engineers on the hybrids, and style-minded designers on marquee products.

[PyRo]

Steam powered stuff also tends to explode more than gas powered stuff. The stupid things some people do with gas cars I would love to see what they would do with steam cars, there would be explosions left and right.

Hey arn't forklifts propane powered? :)

[TransMan]

They woulndt blow up that often if they are built well and not pushed extremely hard you forget most steam engines are used on trains where they are pulling tons of cargo. And yes propane is used on forklifts because most forklifts are run inside and propane has almost 0 emissions so it wont kill peopel working inside.

[mcveighr]

Yeah, some people make propane cars too.

[PyRo]

Originally posted by TransMan
They woulndt blow up that often if they are built well and not pushed extremely hard you forget most steam engines are used on trains where they are pulling tons of cargo. And yes propane is used on forklifts because most forklifts are run inside and propane has almost 0 emissions so it wont kill peopel working inside.

How are you going to keep people from pushing them hard, beaing on them, deciding they can do there own work etc. Now the worst that happens is a car will catch fire, and you have plenty of time to get away from it. An explosion is a little differant.

"Hold on mr explosion while I get out of the way ok?"

[mcveighr]

Don't you watch the movies PyRo? gasoline cars are bombs with wheels, the slightest bump will cause them to explode with a mushroom cloud of smoke and flames 50 feet high.

I think I saw a movie once where a shopping cart hit a car right by the gas tank and it blew.

[Mateo]

Originally posted by PyRo


Thats the day I shoot whoever came up with the idea.

What I shoulda said was styling like in curves, sexy, low stance and not boxy or wedge, tall and ugly like the Prius or Insight. I did't really mean actually putting a hybrid motor in a C3 Corvette, thats just madness!