Willie via EV wrote:
On 01/01/2017 12:26 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote:
I think that is what Bob Beaumont and Bob Rice were after with the
CitiCar. Simple as dirt, fun to drive, and so ugly it's cute. And, it
A year or so ago, I read Beaumont's book titled The Lost Cord.
Fascinating! Bob Rice was only briefly mentioned in it. While Bob Rice
was with us, I wish I had known enough to interrogate him about his
experiences. The book deals only with the CitiCar, not the CommuCar or
Tropica.
If only the CCars had been made with more durable plastic. If only
someone would make replacement bodies out of more durable material.
Bob Beaumont was the car dealer and money man -- he knew marketing and
sales. Bob Rice was the engineer that actually designed and built them
-- he had already been building and selling EV prototypes for years.
There's more about Bob Rice, and a picture of his 1964 "Electroliner" EV
at <http://www.sunrise-ev.com/bio.htm>.
The Electroliner was a great DIY car. Imagine a CitiCar, but with:
- a welded steel frame (instead of aluminum pipe)
- a marine plywood body (instead of plastic)
- two golf cart motors (instead of one)
- no differential; each motor drove its wheel independently
with a 5:1 gear reduction
- contactor controller with both series/parallel battery *and*
series/parallel motor switching (this gave it two "gears"
for good hill-climbing and faster acceleration).
- simple! Bob said he built it for $500 in his driveway in a few weeks
--
Teaching children to program goes against the grain of modern education.
Just imagine the chaos if they learned to think logically, plan, create,
implement, test, and execute!
--
Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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