[ausev] Austin EV startup

[Gil Dawson]

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