Electric Exige?? (Dale Vince - Wind Car) - Page 5

doug · 02-18-2009, 12:25 PM

Well I assume that's the battery box, since that's where they previously showed they intended to put their batteries. Looks like just an empty plastic shell at the moment (with an opening at the back).

Zerocarbonista releases last latest video on wind-powered sports car - AutoblogGreen

vfx · 02-18-2009, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dpeilow

I suppose you could say that one big battery box is much like any other, but that does look quite ESS-like...

Thinkin' the same thing. Least they could have painted it red.

doug · 02-26-2009, 12:47 AM

Video of the Wind Car on the road:

Forever Electric car ( by wind force generator)

TEG · 02-26-2009, 09:05 AM

Doug, you know that is an old video of a dubious (joke?) wind powered car, not Dale's Exige conversion.
Does it really belong here?

It was previously linked here:
The mythical wind powered EV

doug · 02-26-2009, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TEG

Doug, you know that is an old video of a dubious (joke?) wind powered car, not Dale's Exige conversion.
Does it really belong here?

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

I believe there is room for occasional pun-based humor.

Here's an old EVcast interview from November of last year:
EVcast #126: Interview with Dale Vince, Founder of Ecotricity

doug · 03-19-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by doug

Danny of Danny's Contentment talking with Dale Vince. I guess this was recorded before the Lotus EV announcement.

Talking to Dale Vince from Ecotricity about the ‘wind car’. | Danny's Contentment

Talking to Dale Vince Ecotricity founder about EV's and the Wind car

Part 2 of the video above.

Talking to Dale Vince from Ecotricity. Powering all the EV’s.. | Danny's Contentment

Powering all those electric cars - Dale Vince Ecotricity

doug · 03-19-2009, 04:05 PM

Wind car update.
Zero Carbonista's wind-powered car with no name keeps moving forward

The car with no name | Transport | Zerocarbonista

Article in the Guardian:
Britain's pioneering electric supercar: powered by wind | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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It is faster out of the blocks than a V12 Ferrari and can do 0-60mph in four seconds. It will go faster than 140mph and can be fully charged over lunch. But the most remarkable thing about the first British electric supercar is that it is not being built by one of the world's great car companies with a limitless research budget, but has been knocked up in a few months by some middle-aged engineers in a Norfolk garage from off-the-shelf parts mostly available on the web.
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I'll be interested to see if they're ever able to achieve those specs.

An embeddable youtube version of the video isn't yet available. But watching it, it appears each wheel has an independent controller.

doug · 04-04-2009, 10:35 AM

This part 7 went up on Youtube a couple days ago.

YouTube Video

They never bother to talk about the technical aspects of this project, but the videos show a bit. I took some quick screen caps of this latest one.

Belt assembly and motor housing.

Dual motor and belt assembly going into the chassis.

doug · 04-04-2009, 10:43 AM

Each motor has it's own liquid cooled controller box.

I wonder if that's where they really plan to mount the controllers. That side hose likely runs to the radiator up front.

doug · 04-04-2009, 10:54 AM

Those white PVC test boxes appear to contain industrial off-the-shelf electrical components.

Looks like for the purpose of this test, each motor (and thus each rear wheel) has it's own hand held controller.

I'm still interested in what approach they plan to use to address the relative wheel speed issue since they don't have a mechanical differential.