And trains get absolutely horrible mileage if you don't massively
carpool all the time.
- Tom
I would love to drive a train, but there are no tracks to my house, just car wheels on a gravel road.
bp
flyback1 wrote:
Or, all you electric, hybrid and other alternative power car fanatics could reduce the coefficient of friction to 1% of what rubber has for the road by taking the train.
Steel against steel is far more efficient than rubber against asphalt.
John Shutt wrote:
Kon,
After you paid for the 6,800 Li-Ion battery cells to put in your $35,000 Elise, you're back up to the $100k range again. In fact (as if you didn't know) the Tesla rolling chassis is built by Lotus. Imagine that?
John
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What they fail to mention is that the Tesla can't possibly take advantage of all that torque at the crank without spinning the wheels - heck it has 7.5" wheel width in the rear!
A $35k Lotus Elise with a few modifications (maybe none) would probably beat it. Just think of what you could save :)
Cheers Kon
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