earlytimz wrote on 05/22/10 at 17:01:03:Unfortunately, you're prolly right Mick... The battery technology has a long way to come.
My next bike project is gonna be an EV of some sort. I've been studying up on it for over 2 years now. It helps that my boss is an electrical engineer, and happens to be one of the solar/ electric vehicle pioneers around this area.
Sometimes on slow days, we spend more time discussing solar and electric vehicles than we do working... Love it, good stuff!!
back in the late 50s in London we had electric trolly busses, looked like a regular old double decker,the power came from two over head lines that two poles on top of the bus would hook on to,I'm sure you had them in this country maybe NY or Chicago,anyway, I remember those bloody busses could many gee's on you if they excelerated hard
My cousin Bill was driving his bus he saw me at the stop waiting for it to stop,he slowed down and went just a little bit by, I put my foot up to get on ,and that bugger took off I ran like crazy , I coudn't even get close,unlike the later deisels I could walk fast and catch one up.
the big problem with the trollys if they cornered a bit fast the bus would become unconected ,stop dead no reserve battery's, but it only took a couple of minutes to rehook. The good old days, well we thought so.