[ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news

[m. edmund howse]

Hello everyone,

seems ebay has a bunch of interesting motors again. I bid on the one in 
the last e-mail but here's another and according to the listing they are 
indicating a pallet of motors in the near future.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CLUB-CAR-GE-OEM-DC-48V-7HP-19SPLINE-NEW-GOLFCART-MOTOR_W0QQitemZ140231855747QQihZ004QQcategoryZ40155QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
marv

Claire Sorenson wrote:

>Good job guys getting the word out, and congrats on the Saturn conversion.
>
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>From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
>Behalf Of Rob 
>Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:20 PM
>To: 'AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion'
>Subject: Re: [ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news
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>http://www.youtube.com/v/Cxt5eG-uRXE
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
>Behalf Of mark witt
>Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:25 PM
>To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion
>Subject: Re: [ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news
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>Here's the text of a story I found. Mark W.
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>Mixed reaction to rising gas prices in Austin
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>09:24 PM CDT on Friday, May 9, 2008
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>By SHELTON GREEN
>KVUE News
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>Climbing gas prices have one sect of our community lamenting the phenomenon
>and another singing its praises.
>
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>Record breaking gas prices have many local cab drivers changing the way they
>do business. For example, the cabbies parked in front of the downtown Hilton
>say on any given Friday afternoon you could usually find them driving around
>looking for fares. But soaring gas prices are now forcing them to park and
>wait for passengers to come to them.
>
>
>Daniel Ogwuu, an Austin cab driver for eight-years sat with his engine off
>meaning he had no air-conditioning in 96-degree temperatures.
>
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>"By sitting down this way you have to spend more hours.  Instead of
>finishing a 12-hour shift you still have to stay about two or three more
>hours to achieve your goals.
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>Across town, Brian Lasseter, an IBM engineer is not phased by the rising gas
>costs. That's because the member of Austin E.V., E.V. standing for electric
>vehicles, just completed revamping a 2002 Saturn into a fully, efficient
>electric car.
>
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>"We hear people talking about dependence on foreign oil like it's something
>you can't do something about and we looked around and said sure we can do
>something about it" says Lasseter.
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>The engineer spent $20,000 revamping the Saturn, a car which can get up to
>100-miles an hour and run for 40 to 50-miles without being charged.
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>Lasseter says the non-profit group Austin E.V. has been getting more and
>more inquiries from people who want to know more about building their own
>electric vehicles.
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>________________________________
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>Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:05:21 -0500
>From: achoate at gmail.com
>To: ausev at austinev.org
>Subject: [ausev] Brian Lasseter (and AustinEV) in the news
>
>Hello all,
>
>Brian Lasseter was excited to finally get to show his new Saturn conversion
>off by displaying it at the IBM employee car show today.  Then, in a
>completely unrelated but convenient coincidence he got to keep his AustinEV
>uniform on later this afternoon to participate in a story for KVUE.
>
>If the story makes it to air it should be on at 10 tonight.  I am interested
>to see how it turns out and hope you can all tune in.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Aaron Choate
>
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