I think that a more practical solution would be to put power rails in the road that the electric cars can connect to. Would put and end to the jaywalker problem too. (j-walker, heh-heh..) Robert K 1982 Westfalia
----Original Message Follows---- From: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> Reply-To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: [vanagon] Re: electric or hybrid conversion? Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:04:01 -0500 Subject: [vanagon] Re: electric or hybrid conversion? > http://www.renewables.com/ElectricVanConv.htm yousa!! $17,500 for the conversion, NOT including the batteries!!!???? :( that hurts. for $17,500, i could buy at least three more buses AND have a transmission rebuilt, and even get a boston bob rebuilt engine. :( or just get the transmission and the engine and buy some land. ;) i don't see the value of that conversion ... 50 mile range, and the price of a new (but small) car?? ok, so you never have to buy gasoline again. but even at $2/gallon, that's 8,750 GALLONS of gasoline. and even if i only get 16mpg, that's 140,000 miles. which would take me about 7-8 years to use up. and i doubt very seriously if the batteries would last that long ... and maybe not even the electric motor. am i missing something here? joel
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