Electric Vehicles = Motown ?

**Bigb23** · April-01-09, 10:41 PM

Okay - just a bump.

**Bigb23** · April-02-09, 08:30 AM

Don't look for one, but this is just a start.

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**Sstashmoo** · April-02-09, 08:45 AM

Here is the helmet for that electric bike:

http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpres...nese%20Hat.jpg

**Bigb23** · April-02-09, 08:49 AM

If that was a Solar hat, you could power the bike. :- )

**Bigb23** · April-02-09, 10:53 AM

Solar hat - hah.

ccbatson · April-02-09, 08:24 PM

http://www.p2pays.org/ref/07/06033.htm

Less toxic than Lead, but....like saying a shower is less wet than a bath.

**Bigb23** · April-03-09, 09:17 AM

This the only EV I've ever owned. Four in line motorcycle batteries for a total of 48 volts. Dual disc brakes, two wheel drive, storage in the "tank" and would do about 30 mph, flat out. The only sound you would hear was the woosh of the knobby's. Too bad I had to sell it after a layoff.

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ccbatson · April-03-09, 09:53 PM

Like I said...least harmful...still harmful [[as in least wet).

Read it again, the toxic materials are biproducts of all lithium containing batteries.

Another factor is the short lifespan such that the amount of toxic material over time is greater and accumulates like compounded interest.

ccbatson · April-04-09, 10:32 PM

What Lithium batteries are not Lithium Ion batteries? New Lithium polymer batteries are still Lithium ion in mechanism of action. BTW, besides toxicity, they overheat and occasionally are known to burst into flames.

ccbatson · April-05-09, 01:03 PM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ion

Isn't it a moot point if 'none" of the "non ion" batteries are used in electric vehicles.

Then you go on to explain the safeguards needed to lessen the issues regarding heat.

And then you go on to site, as a primary reference, Wikimedia...a big no no. With its' biased and selective information.

Batteries STORE energy, they do not create it. In doing so, they add weight, have a limited lifespan, are toxic on some level [[all of them) to the extent that they must be disposed of as toxic, cost more, and save nothing compared to small low performance internal combustion engines of comparable performance to the electric counterparts [[as can be found all over Europe).