On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just one more time, Ben. Do you really need to keep the ICE? Especially > with an old car like that - no computer, nothing electronic what so ever, > think how easy and simple your configuration would be if electric only. I still haven't bought the car. If I'm going to do a pure BEV conversion, this wouldn't be the car I'd do it with; instead, I'd get a Ghia or the like. But a pure BEV car has the range problem, which is exacerbated in my case by the spread-out nature of the Phoenix metro area plus our summer heat...a car with a nominal 100 mile range is going to be stressful to drive somewhere 30 miles away on a typical day like today with a 110F forecasted high. Going somewhere 30 miles away and deciding on the fly to make a stop another 10 miles out of the way on the way home isn't going to happen. The idea with the Mustang is to get something not unlike the Volt. A couple dozen pure electric miles would cover most of my driving, and a plugin hybrid range aggressive on the electric (presumably resulting in fuel economy rivaling that of an econobox when in that mode) would cover everything else except for trips -- plus it should be great for trips. And it should wind up having all sorts of performance. So...if this car, yes, the ICE stays; if the ICE goes, not this car. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140726/fa809afe/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
