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Subject:Re: Rather odd EV `road test'
Date:Fri, 1 Mar 1996 20:53:11 +0000

At 2:15 PM 3/1/96, M. Grant wrote:
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> They screamed from Calais down to the South of France in (a claimed)
> under 8 hours, which is pretty good going. They quoted the top
> speed at 115mph (with three people, two largish bikes and other junk),
> and reckoned on 16.4 mpg from a 100 mph cruising speed.
>
>
> (I don't know if any of this is news to the EV crowd, but I'll
> post it just in case)

Heck, that's interesting, all right!  On the other hand, 115mph in an EV
has got to be on the order of about a billion rpm!  (Don't want to get
quantitative tonight.  Even though I AM a "rocket scientist" for NASA, I've
sucked down a few barley sodas and can't think that straight right now...).

But that's got to be within a few orders of magnitude, at any rate.  Too
fast for my EV, at least.

regards, where's the beer?...
-Tim Parker
93 EV GL (running sweetly today!)
60 Singlecab
29 Model A Ford.