Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
Forget that solar trailer lunacy... what I want to build is an RV trailer
for the BOLT.
I want to add a complex sliding panel system to streamline the car with the
trailer so that they become one for aerodynimics, but can make a reasonable
turn and handle dips in the road too.
That does sound challenging. I wonder if it might be easier to build the
trailer so you back the Bolt into it with its rear wheels inside the
trailer (not on the ground). Then lock the Car in place. Remove the back
tires from the car for ground clearance, and so it still sits level to
have proper front wheel alignment. Now you have a 4-wheel motor home. :-)
Still a lot of work.
I've thought about this sort of thing, too. I think a better approach
would be the one that Dave Peterson used to build the Ultravan motor
home. He was an aircraft designer, so he built his motor home out of
sheet aluminum, riveted together. It looked like the fuselage of an
airplane; very light and streamlined. Then he removed the drive train
from a Chevy Corvair, and mounted them in the Ultravan. The end result
was an aerodynamic 22' motor home that weighed about the same and got
the same gas mileage as the Corvair donor car.
http://www.corvair.org/chapters/ultravan/
Do the same sort of thing, but use a Bolt or your favorite car as a donor.
--
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all
our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory,
and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry
--
Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub
http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
