There is no way they could have turned the tZero into a production car. It would never be able to meet FMVSS, and the battery pack design was super dangerous. (as such they had a fire)
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 1:23 PM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 19 Dec 2022 at 11:56, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > > Yeah, the original Tesla Roadster used the ACP design with very little > > change. > > I read somewhere (haven't taken the time to find it again) that rather > than > license Alan Cocconi's design, Gage and Eberhard reverse-engineered it for > the Tesla roadster. Considering the ethics of this move will be left as > an > exercise for the reader. > > The T-Zero was a remarkable EV for its time. It was based on the Piontech > Sportech kit car, and was a little more than half the weight of the Lotus > Elise based Tesla roadster. > > The T-Zero's curb weight was just 895kg (1970lb), range 480km (300mi), > efficiency 9.9kWh/100km (160Wh/mi). > > It could have been - IMO, SHOULD have been - turned into a production car > with as few changes as possible. But for whatever reasons, that's now how > it all turned out. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. > In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. > > -- Winson Churchill > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221219/4724ec9a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
