[ausev] Austin EV startup

[Aaron Choate]

I didn't but it looks like KVUE did...

http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/060308kvueScorpion-cb.59cea584.html?npc

/Aaron Choate

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:19 PM, John Penry at Texrocks <jpenry at texrocks.com>
wrote:

>  Did 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 <Gil at Gil.Dawson.name>
> *To:* AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion<ausev at austinev.org>
> *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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