Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: electric vehicles

[Judith Rosen (heyoka]

I'd very much like the PDF and any add'l relevant info.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Joseph" <stuart [at] caercoburn.org>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ electric vehicles


> Muriel,
> Please send me the PDF file.
> It might be good to add it to the archive and/or the WIKI as I am sure
> that a lot of us are interested in the subject.
>
> i would love to own one, but once we are living at Caer Coburn, I
> couldn't use it for getting to town as the only way to get there is via
> a State highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Muriel Kranowski wrote:
> > I posed the question about electric trucks to a friend here in town, 
> > David
> > Roper, a retired physics professor at Virginia Tech. Dave owns a ZAP 
> > Xebra
> > pickup and has made himself into the most public Electric Vehicle 
> > champion
> > in Blacksburg.  Here's his reply (not speaking to shared ownership but
> > about the vehicles).  He said I could include his email address:
> > roperld [at] vt.edu.
> >
> > He also sent me a 2-page PDF file containing more information, his
> > recommendations about dealers, etc., which I'll forward to anyone who 
> > asks
> > for it.
> >
> > ----------------Dave's message--------------
> > The ZAP Xebra PK pickup starting selling in the U.S. in Sept 2006. There
> > were lots of things that needed to be improved, some of which I found 
> > with
> > mine. There is a summary of those items at
> > http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Xebra_EV/files/Xebra%20Breeders%20Digest
> > / (click on the Xebra Breeders Digest).
> >
> > I am told that many of those items have been fixed in the 2008 model.
> >
> > See:
> > http://www.roperld.com/science/ZAPXebraPKRoper.htm
> > http://www.roperld.com/science/zapxebrapkreview.htm
> > http://www.roperld.com/science/ZapElectricCars.htm
> >
> >
> > A log of my experience with the ZAP Xebra PK is
> > http://www.roperld.com/science/RoperPKLog.htm .
> >
> > For any electric car with lead-acid batteries, the batteries will last 
> > much
> > longer if they are not discharged all the way down, even though they are
> > called "deep cycle" batteries. The most life-time energy can be gotten 
> > out
> > of them if they are discharged only about half way.
> >
> > I hope to move to lithium-ion-iron-phosphate batteries in a year or so
> > (http://www.ewidistribution.com/batteries.html); right now they are about 
> > 3
> > times or more expensive than lead-acid AGM batteries (the best lead-acid
> > batteries), which I now have. Their price should go down rapidly in the
> > next few years.
> >
> > The GEM can go only 25 mph, whereas the Xebra can go 40 mph.
> >
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