[ausev] Austin EV startup

[John Penry at Texrocks]

Maxwell is taking orders online for the fall. He plans to build 200 scorpions. They're going for $150,000 a piece.

Wait a minute there, Maxwell.  Don't you know the Tesla is ONLY 98,000 ?  Why pay $150K for a "Scorpion"?

Oh, and get a load of the debut car.  No body, just a frame.  Maybe this is the dune buggy edition.
Check out the green box up front that looks like an Alienware PC.  Thats the HHO generator.
They get HOW MANY gallons of HHO out of 1.5 litres of water?  Enough to improve your mileage by 87% for 3000 miles.  Too bad the Dell guy bought into this scheme.

The other part that bugs me is the test specs.  The "unit" was in the truck bed under a cover, and they didn't lift the cover to see what was there.  Maybe it was a..... NOx canister?  That test just got a non-validation.

If they sell any of these cars, I want to talk to that customer about a bridge I have for sale.

John in Seguin.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aaron Choate 
  To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:06 AM
  Subject: Re: [ausev] Austin EV startup


  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 
      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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