On 25 Nov 2015 at 21:46, Alan Arrison via EV wrote: > So the bus traveled at about 25mph. Totally unacceptable in a real > world situation.
Well, I'd guess that the city buses round these parts average less than that speed But I know what you mean. It's not a "real world" test. It's more of a promotional gimmick. Maybe they think that purchasing agents for bus fleets would be impressed by such a test, but I wonder how many really would. And though I may have missed it, I didn't see any discussion of what the bus (or the battery) will cost. You can get impressive range with a silver-zinc battery, for example, but the cost is insane. (FWIW, an engineer I knew many years ago had once worked on designs for US military submarine target drones. He couldn't tell me much about them, but he did say that they were powered by silver-zinc batteries. Your tax dollars going up in smoke, I guess, but at least they weren't pulverizing lead or cadmium in the ocean.) David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
