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EVLN(Media wants EVs that look like sleeker ICE models)
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http://gazette.com/stories/0628spts1c.php?section=4
June 28, 2002
Electric car can, but won't, break 10-minute mark
By Tim Mimick The Gazette

His new electric car runs so quietly that an emergency siren
had to be installed so it could warn race spectators of the
vehicle's approach.  Tim Eckert of Palmer Lake said the
latest L.G.  Chemical battery technology gives his car
enough power to break the 10-minute mark on Pikes Peak.

"That's if we had four-wheel drive and a better driver in
it," Eckert said.

He's not familiar enough with the course to push his silver
No.26 car to the limit. In qualifying Thursday morning, he
finished in 6 minutes, 54.18 seconds, which was more than 23
seconds off the division mark.

He backed off near the finish line and still was gliding at
86mph.

"I could have gone 100 (mph) easily," Eckert said.  The
1,300-pound car uses the electric equivalent of 25 ounces of
gasoline to travel the 12.42 miles on race day, he said. On
a 1-mile paved track recently, it zoomed around at 130mph.

>From a standstill, it can reach 60mph in 3.2seconds.  "I can
go up the road and then be out of power at the top of Pikes
Peak, coast all the way down and regenerate roughly a
quarter of the total power," he said.

Most consumers want an electric car that looks sleeker than
the common square models, he said.  His 2002 car is longer,
lower and more dynamic.  Part of the reason for the racy
chassis is that he helps design them, a job he accepted
after leaving the Disney Corp. as an artist and sculptor.

In his fifth Hill Climb on Saturday, Eckert said the
electric car record of 15:19.91 should be safe.
"We'll try to put on a good show," he said.

PLEASE SEND LUCK: Lynn Cowan has been driving and begging
for better mechanical durability from his car this week. On
Wednesday, his Super Stock Car broke an axle and a shock
absorber. A possible broken rod disrupted his qualifying run
Thursday.

He still qualified second behind six-time defending division
champion Clint Vahsholtz.

"I don't know if I've got the car to beat Clint," said
Cowan, a Peyton resident. "Clint's got such a class act and
he's such a good driver. I've got my car running well enough
that if Clint sneezes and has any malfunction like maybe
spin out - and I don't wish any bad luck on him at all -
then I might be close enough to beat him."

RACE UPDATE: The toll gate will open at 4a.m.  Those
spectators who wish to watch the race from any location
above Glen Cove must be past Glen Cove by 7:30a.m.

All spectators must be past Crystal Reservoir by 8a.m. and
past the start line by 8:15a.m.

Copyright 2002, The Gazette, a Freedom Communications, Inc.
Company. All rights reserved.
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