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MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models

Posted July 23, 2009 7:47 AM

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Inside a plain-looking garage on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus, undergraduate Radu Gogoana and his team of fellow students are working on a project that could rival what major automobile manufacturers are doing. The team's goal is to build an all-electric car with similar performance capabilities of gasoline-only counterparts, which includes a top speed of about 161 kph, a family sedan capacity, a range of about 320 kilometers and the ability to recharge in about 10 minutes.

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07/23/2009 10:37 AM

GOOD LUCK!

I do not doubt that they will be able to make it work, I just doubt if I will be able to affort it.

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07/23/2009 12:36 PM

My only question is where are they going to get the 1.21 gigawatts to charge the flux capacitor?

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07/23/2009 1:04 PM

A bolt of lightning, of course!

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07/24/2009 3:21 AM

'May'
'Could'
'They are the only people exploring rapid recharge'
....oh Puhlease, as if no one else is considering rapid charge, do me a favour.
I wish 'em good luck but this isn't really news, now is it? Go and sit on the thinking chair before you answer...

Nice video, but it doesn't seem to be doing much that's novel, the didn't even seenm to be very interested in saving weight...
I winced when he said 'chain drive and no maintenance' in the same breath.
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07/24/2009 5:45 PM

C'mon Kitty. These are undergraduate students. You cant expect that they are really solving one of the worlds major problems. Personally, I fault the idiots that write such copy for magazines and the publishers that print the trash. It's all part of the PC crowd that gives awards for pee-wee baseball or showing up on time for work for a whole week.

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07/24/2009 4:24 PM

I bet money that they'll be able to pull of rapid recharge at the expense of battery useable life span.

And each battery will cost $10,000 USD.

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07/26/2009 3:32 PM

...unfortunately, there is a VAST [i]chasam[/i] between what's "possible" and what's "practical."

...so, just because some MIT students can prove it's "possible" is certainly no sign it's even remotely "practical."

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07/27/2009 5:39 AM

It sounds ideal for pizza delivery.

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