Re: DC or AC ?? Race Efficiency

["BillDube@killacycle.com" <BillDube@killacycle.com>]

At 05:52 PM 9/25/00, you wrote:
>Roderick, I realize amp suckers care about efficiency not less than
>"normal" converters, I never stated otherwise. The only things they don't
>care on the race track about (vs. normal conversions) is probably the range.
>
>That's why in Europe where mentality is set to conserve energy
>most EVs are low power long range. Get you from point A to point B
>is more important than show off stuff. No amp suckers, it's not practical.

         You have a common misconception. High-performance EVs are actually 
more efficient than low-performance EVs. This is a fact. (Quite the 
opposite is true for ICEs. That is why people often make this incorrect 
assumption about EVs.)

         If you build a high-performance EV, folks will buy them. It has 
been well proven that low-performance EVs sell very poorly indeed. If folks 
don't buy EVs, they really won't make any difference at all, will they?

         Even under the worst conditions, EVs are more energy efficient 
than ICEs. Even on a record-breaking run down the drag strip, the 
KillaCycle uses less than a kW-hr of electricity. At it's worst, the 
KillaCycle is about 75% efficient.

         Get the person to buy an EV. No matter how they drive it, slow or 
fast, we will all be better off than if the same person bought an ICE car. 
We have to entice them to buy it, however. High-performance will do this 
with no sacrifice in efficiency.
    _ /|        Bill "Wisenheimer" Dube'
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