At 11:00 AM 5/10/2002, Bob Stevens wrote:
>Whew, the technology! Those exotic materials and parts sound very expensive.

True, but there's not all that much of them...I wonder what the overall
weight is?

>Didn't say anything about cooling the passengers, only heating them. Wonder
>how that would be done.

This car is so cool that the passengers wouldn't dare be
overheated.  They'll probably use a solar-powered Dometic 182B cooling
unit...85 watts input, can't be bad. <g>

>  It sure has alot of complex systems.
>"To minimise frictional resistance, the running area of the cylinder has
>been laser alloyed"...that happened to me once at a theme part ;{)

<snerk>

I wonder how it does on hills...

d

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