Re: Sentra Saga, Last Chapter or Ampabout East

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Hart" <leeahart@...>
> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Sentra Saga, Last Chapter or Ampabout East
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>
> > Richard Acuti wrote:
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> You have balls of steel man. It's one thing to drive an EV long
> >> distances, but you did it completely without any preplanned waypoints
> >> for recharging and you actually found a place every time! Not only
> >> that, but you made the drive in a 90 volt car. That's barely above
> >> old Comuta-Van power. Bravo!
>
> >> Hi Rich;
>
>   Hell? Why not? TIME was the issue here? I USED to clip off that distance
> in an AEM-7 Electric loke EVery day? THEY, Amtrak, paid the electric bill
> for me, in 2 hours, with a lota stops, to pick up hostages, I mean
> PASSENGERS! Getting up to 125 mph on the streightaways!And they EVen PAID
> me
> for that EV grin! Hell, the car would GO fine, just HOW long was the
> question? I'm not as cute as I was 40 years ago, but they , local folks,
> still can be charmed by my innocent mannor? "Can I buy some
> electricity?"Huh?" YES I 'm out of juice in my Electric Car" A variation
> of
> a pickup line in a bar? This admission usually take good folks by
> surprise?
> Folks are cool with it;"how LONG do ya need to charge?" is the question?
> You
> do Show and Tell, for awile, then go sit in the car, play yur tunes, and
> read awile. You DEFINATELY bring a book!!!One about 2 inches thick:
> "Passage
> between the Seas" about building the Pana-mania Canel. Remember the
> AMERICAN
> Canel, built and PAID for by USA, nearly a century ago!Talk about a BIG
> dig!WE gave it away! Feh! Helps pass the time away as your voltmeter
> INCHES
> toward 110 volts. I have scene faster glaciers! Had I been able to pull
> 100-200 amps instead of 30 it woulda taken less time!Yeah I shoulda got a
> PFC -50, I hear ya Rich<g>?! Well HAD I my "Little Blue Box" setup I MIGHT
> have been able to pull 70 amps or blew out Tom's outlets?
>
> >> More to the point though, do you realize what you just proved?
> >> Without even bothering to pre-arrange places to charge, you found
> >> them. The distribution network for electric "fuel" is already in
> >> place. You even used 2 kinds; 220 and 110 volts. This is exactly the
> >> kind of thing I'm talking about in my response to Lee.  Lee could
> >> site this as an example in his discussion with the state legislature.
> >> You are kind of a stinker for "war charging" without permission on
> >> that first stop though, lol.
>
>         BINGO ! Rich, right on! The infrastructure is here now, well
> sorta?
> I KNEW I wasn't gunna be going anywhere that there WASN'T
> electricity.People
> are a little chary at just GIVING it away, nowadaze. Thank You,
> Corrupticut
> for letting THIS happen! But at 21 cents a KWH, ya better be polite or
> cute
> when you ask>?Or Hell? Put up meters so we wouldn't have to beg, just
> swipe
> yur card!?A guilt free trip?
>
> >> When I see you at P of DC, I'm going to shake your hand.
>
>     I'd be delighted! Want to meet ya, anyhow!
>
> > Anyone who has driven an EV for years will discover that there are more
> > AC outlets than gas stations. It simply is not a problem to find places
> > to charge. It can be a little inconvenient and slow; but it can always
> > be done. Just ask... almost no one says "no".
>
>       Exactly! IF yopu had infinate patience you COULD EV tour about the
> country. Staying at a cheepo motel or OTHER EVer's place you could start
> the
> daty with a FULL charge?Campground, whatEVer. Remember the Bally hoo at
> Joliet about setting upo simple plugitin's aloing the old RT 66 for EV
> touring? Stoppoing of at quirky musuums and tacky tourist traps along the
> way, Shits and giggles dept? Hey! Jerry Ascher? What happened on THAT
> trip?
>
>     We would go on EV caravans, touring WITHOUT gas on relatively empty
> roads, biz places would be GLAD to see u$.The American Open Road, again?
> EVen EV campers, which wouldn't haver that great range. After all;"Getting
> halfway There is Fun?"It's the journey, not the destination, somebody,
> with
> only a 120 volt charger once said?
>
>    Seeya
>
>    Bob
>
>       It took about 12 hours, maybe less from Detoilet to Chicago 40 years
> ago in Bob Aronson's Mars 2 Converted Renault About 300 miles, stopping
> off
> for 45 minute charges EVery 40-60 miles> I coulda done that trip in the
> Sentra, or Jetta with one of Bob's chargers, aboard! A tip of the hat to
> visionery Bob Aronson's Electric Fuel Propulsion, back in the late 60's
> early 70's. Bob, take a bow! You were SO far ahead of yur time.  I gotta
> write a book?! Gas was 23 sense a gal back then, who cared? Sigh.
> > --
> > Ring the bells that still can ring
> > Forget the perfect offering
> > There is a crack in everything
> > That's how the light gets in    --    Leonard Cohen
> > --
> > Lee A. Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, leeahart_at_earthlink.net
> >
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