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dpack
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46052 Location: yes
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it is a nice mix of available tech
there would be a time lag between making them and having enough folk to mend them where they might be most use, they took the engineers with the vehicle, but as a "concept car" it seems to show ways to remove fossil fuels from smallish transport for those who need a box but need portable infrastructure to power it
i did the maths for the bike and came up with about 3M2 of pv panels to ride 100km a night and charge all day, ride and charge is a non-,
carrying them might be an issue
the roof and wing stuff on a van is more practical than pv on a bike even if it had a trailer
the thing has multiple concepts
for a nomad vehicle the concepts have merit, but the infrastructure might be a problem, much as with the leccy cars and bikes have them in fairly high tech /lots of shops places now
i dread to think what infrastructure issues might occur on a road trip across africa or the stans in a leccy vehicle. strong, old tech stuff is best for old tech places. i could probably adjust a soviet era bike engine to run on tree distalate but making a charger control chip from malian sand would be challenging
if they could make the control stuff from mobile phone parts and the mechanical/electrical things simple but robust etc, it could be a game changer in many places, if they could afford the initial investment |
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sgt.colon
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Mistress Rose
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