Post: Wind-powered Car
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02-19-2011, 09:55 PM
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Mugen904
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Two German inventors have created an electric vehicle that recharges the battery through a wind turbine carried in the car. To test the vehicle, the duo recently completed a 3,100-mile trek across Australia.
It is almost like German adventurers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer saw the latest models of electric cars, and decided to see if they could go out and make the manufacturers feel bad. In a move that will have green aficionados cheering and gearheads gently weeping at the state of the world, a new electric car powered by a wind turbine has just been unleashed into the Australian wilds.
The vehicle, known as the Wind Explorer, uses an electric battery similar to those found in most of the current generation of electric cars like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, but rather than needing to plug in every night, the Wind Explorer comes standard with a 20-foot retractable bamboo mast that holds a wind turbine to charge the battery. The Wind Runner can also be powered—or perhaps more accurately “dragged”—by a kite, assuming of course that there is ample wind. The result is a lightweight electric car that weighs under 500 pounds and has a top speed of 55 miles an hour, all with close to zero emissions.
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02-20-2011, 12:35 AM
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02-20-2011, 12:41 AM
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Mugen904
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Originally posted by 20
My day was great, thanks for asking 
How about yours?
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It's funny how people think this is the future.. If you think about it, it's setting us back. Electric powered cars are really retarded, you have to charge them daily and the batteries don't last too long. I'd rather pump some gas or better yet, buy a hydrogen powered car. Now that is the future, vehicles running on hydrogen.
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How about yours?On topic:
It's funny how people think this is the future.. If you think about it, it's setting us back. Electric powered cars are really retarded, you have to charge them daily and the batteries don't last too long. I'd rather pump some gas or better yet, buy a hydrogen powered car. Now that is the future, vehicles running on hydrogen.
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Yeah i agree, some of these electric cars dont even make sense, you will drive them for an hour and you will end up chargin them, or continue driving them on gas, i guess battery is only to go to the store and come back. but i want wind powered car, that would be nice still.
02-20-2011, 01:17 AM
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Gizmo
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Originally posted by Mugen904
Yeah i agree, some of these electric cars dont even make sense, you will drive them for an hour and you will end up chargin them, or continue driving them on gas, i guess battery is only to go to the store and come back. but i want wind powered car, that would be nice still.
Well, I have a theory, If we get 2 billion of these things
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We might be able to move a single piston
02-20-2011, 05:58 AM
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NBTheKing
Hurah!
Originally posted by Mugen904
This is amazing, German people are smart.
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It is almost like German adventurers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer saw the latest models of electric cars, and decided to see if they could go out and make the manufacturers feel bad. In a move that will have green aficionados cheering and gearheads gently weeping at the state of the world, a new electric car powered by a wind turbine has just been unleashed into the Australian wilds.
The vehicle, known as the Wind Explorer, uses an electric battery similar to those found in most of the current generation of electric cars like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, but rather than needing to plug in every night, the Wind Explorer comes standard with a 20-foot retractable bamboo mast that holds a wind turbine to charge the battery. The Wind Runner can also be powered—or perhaps more accurately “dragged”—by a kite, assuming of course that there is ample wind. The result is a lightweight electric car that weighs under 500 pounds and has a top speed of 55 miles an hour, all with close to zero emissions.
Source [url=https://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/543/wind-powered-car-sets-records-in-a-3100-mile-road-test/]Wind-powered car sets records in a 3,100-mile road test - Yahoo! Shopping[/url]
HAH! TOLD YA GUY's like HITLER! Genius, Just Genius.
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