[ausev] Austin EV startup

[John Penry at Texrocks]

Re: [ausev] Austin EV startupDid anyone attend the grand celebration?

Does the car look like the ones on their website?

Does the car double it's miles per gallon as http://www.hydrorunner.com/ says.

We want to know.

John in Seguin

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gil Dawson 
  To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion 
  Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [ausev] Austin EV startup


  At 4:30 P -0500 5/30/08, Ian Ward wrote:
  Has anyone met/talked with these guys?  This is out of the blue to me...

  http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily29.html
  http://www.ronnmotors.com/


  I haven't, but it's an interesting idea.  Hydrogen is expensive, relative to gasoline (or, at least it was when they first suggested fuel cell cars.)   But you only consume it when you want to go fast.   


  Would you call this a hybrid?


  If this idea sells then, if gas prices rise faster than hydrogen prices (quite likely, IMHO), I can imagine that eventually they could offer a series of aftermarket kits that would let the owner use more and more hydrogen and require less and less gas.


  Ronn's taking a post-modernist approach to the transition.


  --Gil


  P.S.  The article doesn't say, but these cars will burn hydrogen in an internal combustion engine, right?  They're not talking fuel cell here, are they?


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