The Electric Car: a Prius?
Published over 3 years ago
So we've known Prius as a hybrid, but what about all electric? There is a garage in San Francisco that is converting the gas-electric hybrid to be an all electric powered car. Conversion cost- a cool $7500. The Luscious Garage is changing out the nickel-metal-hydride battery for more powerful, longer living lead acid battery, which is more or less rechargeable when plugged into a wall outlet.
This is a really interesting way to bring electric cars to the fore front of your thinking and back onto the roads. Apparently, any car is convertible to electric, just not sure how pricey it could get. It seems that since the Prius is halfway there, the conversion is well, sort of reasonable.
Now if we could do all the "plugging-in" to a solar or wind powered source, we'd be golden.
More on electric cars:
Tesla Motors, an electric sports car
Albert says:
Cars that become silicon and less iron are sometimes harder to work on, but people love to tinker and work on their own cars, so I'm sure that as electric cars become more available, people will surely modify them as they did the internal combustion engine.
Why is that important? Because so many innovations come from tinkering. It would really be interesting if an electric car used linux to manage its systems, then you'd really have some innovation going on. Actually I think that there are some open source cars being developed.